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Durham, NC 27708-0760 (919) 684-4063 (office)
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PhD Duke University 1993
M.Div. Duke University 1989

Ethics, Animals, Feminism, Religion, Food Politics, Conservation, Ecofeminism
Professional Experience / Employment History

• Duke University Associate Professor of Ethics and Women's Studies, Women's Studies Program, February 19, 2000 - present
• Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Women's Studies, Women's Studies Program, 1994-2000
• Princeton University Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, 1993-94

• David Paletz course enhancement award, December 2012
• Course Development Award from New Beginnings for Spring Animal Course, September 2005
• Grant Award from Duke Human Rights Initiative, September 2005
• New Beginnings: Race Culture and Medicine, provost, September 2004
• FIPSE Course development award, Kenan Ethics, September 2003
• Medical Ethics Class-Anne Lyerly, Duke Women's Studies, September 2003
• GELP course development award, GELP, May 2003
• Chapel Pathways Course Development Award, DU Chapel, April 2003
• Latino Studies course development award, Latino Studies, September 2002
• Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke Universtiy, 0 2000
• Arts and Science Research Council Research Grants, Duke University, 0 1998
• Faculty Development Award for Service-Learning, Duke University, 0 1998
• Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 0 1995
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton Univ., February 1993
• Young Scholars of Religion Program, Lilly Foundation, February 1993
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, Louisville Institute for Study of Protestantism and American Culture, 0 1992
• Dempster Fellowship, United Methodist Church, 0 1990
• Anne McDougall Scholarship, Duke Program in Women's Studies, 0 1988

• host scholarHAS summer 6 week seminar, June 01, 2009
• Organized Grad Student Panel on HASCompassionate Living Conference, October, 2007
• Planning Committee for National Council for Research on Women, July 1998

• Manuscript Reviewer for Theology and Sexuality, June 02, 2004 - present
• 3 papers for Feminist Studies plus several others, 8 December 2003
• Latino Studies Steering Committee, 1 August 2003
• Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Search Committee, 1 May 2003
• Faculty Associate for Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, 1 August 2000
• Kenan Faculty Council, Kenan Ethics Program, 1 August 1998
• Women's studies Steering Committee, 1 August 1994
• Duke-UNC Bioethics Research Group, 1 August 1994
• Co taught Inaugural University Course, December 2012
• Journal Referee, December 2012
• Manuscript Review, July, 2010
• Manuscript Review for University of Illinois Press, December 2009
• Tenure Committe Frances Hasso, December 2009
• Frances Hasso Tenure Committee, December 2009
• Ara Wilson Tenure Committee, December 2006
• Joint Committee on Student Affairs, December 2006
• Educational Planning Committe on Ethics, Fall 2005
• Manuscript Reviewer, December 2005
• Kenan Assistant Director Search Committee, July 2003
• Tina Campt's Tenure Committee, January-May 2003
• Kathi Weeks Tenure Committee, July 2002
• Advisory Committee for the Program in the Study of Sexualities, 1996-2001
• Arts and Science Council, 1999-2001
• Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards, National Women's Studies Association, 1998-2000
• Advisory Committee for Faculty Forum, 1997-99
• Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1998
• Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 1995-96

1. Kathy Rudy. "If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human Subject." Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing. Edited by Margo DeMello. 2012.
2. Kathy Rudy, "Review of Lori Gruen’s Ethics and Animals". Ethics and Environment  (2012).
3. Kathy Rudy. "Bestial Imaginings." Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies. Edited by Susan McHugh and Gary Marvin. 2012.

• Commencement Speech for NC Service DOgs, 12 December 2012
• Winter Forum 2013, Beuafort/ Duke Marine Lab, 12 December 2012
• HAS keynote address, June 25, 2010
• Dog Fighting and Animal Studies, September, 2007
• Food Politics, July, 2007
• Homosexuality and Ethics, University of Richmond, April 21, 2005
• Vocation and Feminism, Duke Chapel Pathways lecture, September 22, 2005
• Homosexuality in the UMC, Guilford College, October 02, 2004
• Beyond Being (Gay), University of Richmond, September 22, 2004
• HIV and Issues in Undergraduate Population, Duke Hospital ID clinic Grand Rounds, July 03, 2004
• Vocation and Feminism, Chapel Pathways project, February 21, 2004
• Down Low Panel, Mary Lou Williams Center, 1 December 2003
• Abortion and Ethics, Library/Special Conference, 1 November 2003
• Barefoot and Pregnant/Women in Ministry, Women's Center/ Chapel Pathways, 17 September 2003
• Latino Health Issues, DUMC, 25 March 2003
• Chicana Feminism, Women's Center Duke University, 28 February 2003
• 1. Parenting as (a) Queer, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1 March 2001
• 2. Subjectivity and Belief: Meditations on a Queer Christian Experience, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, 1 November 2000
• 3. Abortion and the Other(s), Plenary Lecture, Albion College, Albion, MI, 1 November 2000
• 4. Mapping the Moralities of Abortion, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 1 April 2000
• 5. Subjectivity and Belief, Plenary Lecture, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, 1 April 1999
• 6. Girl Deconstructed: Radical Feminism in Durham, NC, 1980-Present, Keynote Speaker, NC Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Conference, Asheville, NC, 1 March 1998
• 7. Philosophical Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas in the Natural Sciences, Welcome Address to Incoming Duke Graduate Students, Beaufort, NC, 1 August 1997