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Kim R. De Wolff

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Philosophy and Religion

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2014
    Major: Communication and Science Studies
    Dissertation: Gyre Plastic: Science , Circulation and the Matter of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • MA, Queen's University, 2007
    Major: Sociology
    Dissertation: H20 to Go: Marketing and Materiality in the Normalization of Bottled Water
  • BM, University of British Columbia, 2003
    Major: General Music

Current Scheduled Teaching

PHIL 6950.713Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
PHIL 2500.400Environment and SocietyFall 2024 Syllabus
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeFall 2024 Syllabus
PHIL 6900.711Special ProblemsFall 2024
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

PHIL 6950.716Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
PHIL 4200.001Science, Technology, and SocietySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6900.007Special ProblemsSpring 2024
PHIL 6950.713Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2023
PHIL 6760.001Topics in Environmental PhilosophyFall 2023 SPOT
PHIL 6950.716Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
PHIL 4700.001Environmental PhilosophySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4200.001Science, Technology, and SocietySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6900.007Special ProblemsSpring 2023
PHIL 6950.713Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4200.001Science, Technology, and SocietyFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2022
PHIL 6950.716Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
PHIL 2500.003Environment and SocietySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 2500.203Environment and SocietySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6750.001Environmental JusticeSpring 2022 SPOT
PHIL 5900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2022
PHIL 2500.003Environment and SocietyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 2500.203Environment and SocietyFall 2021 Syllabus
PHIL 4700.001Environmental EthicsFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6900.711Special ProblemsFall 2021
PHIL 6950.003Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
PHIL 4700.001Environmental EthicsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6950.008Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
PHIL 2500.005Introduction to Contemporary Environmental IssuesFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.008Special ProblemsFall 2020
PHIL 6760.001Topics in Environmental PhilosophyFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6760.901Topics in Environmental PhilosophyFall 2020
PHIL 6950.716Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeSpring 2020 Syllabus
PHIL 6750.001Environmental JusticeSpring 2020
PHIL 5950.001Master's ThesisSpring 2020
PHIL 4700.001Environmental EthicsFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 2500.005Introduction to Contemporary Environmental IssuesFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.713Special ProblemsFall 2019
PHIL 2600.020Ethics in ScienceSummer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 2600.005Ethics in ScienceSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 2600.705Ethics in ScienceSpring 2019 SPOT
PHIL 2600.901Ethics in ScienceFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6740.001Environmental Ethics, Science, and Public PolicySpring 2018 SPOT
PHIL 4900.710Special ProblemsSpring 2018 Syllabus
PHIL 3440.001BioethicsFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4740.001Environmental JusticeFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • De Wolff, K. Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands.
  • De Wolff, K., Faletti, R., López-Calvo, I. (2022). Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520380455/hydrohumanities

    • Book Chapter

  • De Wolff, K. (2023). Plastivores and the Persistence of Synthetic Futures. Living in the Plastics Age. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo184776259.html

    • Book Review

  • De Wolff, K. (2023). Review of The Wonder of Water. Other. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/boh/item/344-wonder
  • De Wolff, K. (2023). De Wolff on Davis, 'Plastic Matter'. H-Net. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58020
  • De Wolff, K. (2021). De Wolff on Zubiaurre, 'Talking Trash: the Cultural Uses of Waste.'. H-Net Reviews. https://networks.h-net.org/node/19397/reviews/7257222/de-wolff-zubiaurre-talking-trash-cultural-uses-waste
  • De Wolff, K. (2018). Review: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt and Unreal Objects by Kate O’Riordan. Other. 4 (1) https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29643
  • De Wolff, K. (2011). Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Other. 5 570-573.

    • Encyclopedia Article

  • De Wolff, K. (2014). Garbage Patch. Discard Studies Compendium.
  • De Wolff, K. (2012). Water Treatment. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste.

    • Journal Article

  • De Wolff, K. (2024). 'Floating things' and methodological drift: Accounting for haunted materialities in the North Pacific Ocean. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127241226829
  • De Wolff, K. (2017). Plastic Naturecultures: Multispecies Ethnography and the Dangers of Separating Living from Nonliving Bodies. Other. 23 (3) 23-47. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X17715074

    • Other

  • De Wolff, K.R. (2018). Materiality. Keywords for Ethnography and Design. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/materiality

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • De Wolff, K.R. (Principal), "Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant," sponsored by NSF, Federal, Funded. ( - 2013).

    • Grant - Service

  • Klaver, I.J. (Co-Principal), Kim, D. (Co-Principal), Samantha, L. (Co-Principal), Terra, R. (Co-Principal), "Women Philosophers Mentoring Group Grant," sponsored by CLASS Dean's Office, University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. (2018 - 2019).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • De Wolff, K.R., "Connect Learning Grant," sponsored by Career Connect, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2018).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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