Faculty Profile

Kim De Wolff

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Philosophy and Religion
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2014. 
Major: Communication and Science Studies
Dissertation Title: Gyre Plastic: Science , Circulation and the Matter of  the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
MA, Queen's University, 2007. 
Major: Sociology
Dissertation Title: 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 6950.716, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2024 
PHIL 4200.001, Science, Technology, and Society, Spring 2024 Syllabus
PHIL 6900.007, Special Problems, Spring 2024 


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    PHIL 6950.713, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.002, Special Problems, Fall 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 6760.001, Topics in Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6950.716, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 4700.001, Environmental Philosophy, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4200.001, Science, Technology, and Society, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6900.007, Special Problems, Spring 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 6950.713, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022 
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4200.001, Science, Technology, and Society, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.002, Special Problems, Fall 2022 
                    

                    PHIL 6950.716, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    PHIL 2500.003, Environment and Society, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2500.203, Environment and Society, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6750.001, Environmental Justice, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.001, Special Problems, Spring 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 2500.003, Environment and Society, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2500.203, Environment and Society, Fall 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 4700.001, Environmental Ethics, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6900.711, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    PHIL 6950.003, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    PHIL 4700.001, Environmental Ethics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6950.008, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    PHIL 2500.005, Introduction to Contemporary Environmental Issues, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.008, Special Problems, Fall 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 6760.001, Topics in Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6760.901, Topics in Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2020 
                    

                    PHIL 6950.716, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020 
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 6750.001, Environmental Justice, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 5950.001, Master's Thesis, Spring 2020 
                    

                    PHIL 4700.001, Environmental Ethics, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2500.005, Introduction to Contemporary Environmental Issues, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.713, Special Problems, Fall 2019 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 2600.020, Ethics in Science, Summer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2600.005, Ethics in Science, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2600.705, Ethics in Science, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 2600.901, Ethics in Science, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6740.001, Environmental Ethics, Science, and Public Policy, Spring 2018  SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4900.710, Special Problems, Spring 2018 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 3440.001, Bioethics, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4740.001, Environmental Justice, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  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 Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book
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



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
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. (September 2018 – August 2019).
Grant - Teaching   
De Wolff, K. R., "Connect Learning Grant," Sponsored by Career Connect, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (October 2018 – Present).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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			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):
				
      
					
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