Rebecca Bamford

Rebecca Bamford is Full Professor of Philosophy (with tenure). She joined the Department of Philosophy & Political Science in 2012, when Quinnipiac inaugurated its new Philosophy major. Dr. Bamford is from the UK originally, and earned a BA in Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Durham (UK). She was the first woman President of the Middle Common Room of University College, Durham, in 2000.

Dr. Bamford's research focuses on late modern European and post-Kantian Continental philosophy, and bioethics. She received Quinnipiac's Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award in 2016. Her research in Nietzsche studies is internationally recognized, and she has been invited to present on her decolonizing bioethics research at the University of Fort Hare, the University of Cape Town, and the University currently known as Rhodes. She also serves as a mentor in Medical Humanities for the Netter Medical School.

Dr. Bamford teaches early modern epistemology and metaphysics, post-Kantian European philosophy, ethics, African philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, environment, and social transformation, and introduction to philosophy. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in bioethics, and ethics & public policy. Many of her QU courses, especially "I" courses, incorporate feminist theory.