About me
Melina Bell is a Washington and Lee University Professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability, and the Law, Justice, and Society Program. She also teaches at the Law School. Bell’s primary research interests are in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy. Her publications have focused on ways in which the basic structure of society, or particular domains within it, reflect hierarchies of social power that unduly restrict human freedom and opportunity and impede human flourishing. Her courses include Social Inequality and Fair Opportunity, Feminist Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Sex, Philosophy of the Family, Gender and Sport, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Distributive Justice, and at the law school, Jurisprudence and Feminist and Queer Jurisprudence. Bell holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University, a J.D. and an M.P.H. from Boston University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Hofstra University.
