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Bio as of September 2005

Joan C. Tronto received her A.B. at Oberlin College in 1974 and her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1981. She has held visiting appointments at Yale University, the University of Humanist Studies, the Netherlands, and at Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

Tronto has authored numerous articles and Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (1993). She is the co-editor, with Cathy Cohen and Kathy Jones, of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (1997).

Among her professional activities, Tronto has served as the book review editor for Polity (2000-2004) and on the editorial boards of Contemporary Political Theory (1999--), Acta Politica (1999--), Women and Politics (2000--2003), and International Feminist Journal of Politics (1999--).

In 1997--1999, she served on the APSA Council and the Administrative Committee. She served as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee in 2000 that recommended the creation of Perspectives on Politics. In 1993--1994, she served as chair for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus. She has served various roles in the Women's Caucus and in the Organized Section for Women and Politics, and in the Organized Section for Foundations in Political Theory. She also organized the section on "Gender and Politics" at the MPSA in 1997 and served on the MPSA Council, 2001--2003. She chaired the Leo Strauss Prize Committee in 1997 and the Foundations for Political Thought's First Book Prize Committee in 1995.

Tronto presented at the "Frontiers in Research" MiniCourse organized by the Women and Politics Section, 2000, and at the "Workshop on Women of Color and Political Science Research" held in conjunction with the 2002 APSA meeting. Tronto has also co-coordinated faculty development seminars at the City University of New York, for a seminar on "Balancing the Curriculum for Race, Class and Gender" and on "Considering Care."

Tronto received Hunter College's Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 1991, and served as the founding director of the College's Teaching Learning Center from 2001--2003. Tronto is currently chair of the Hunter College Senate. She would welcome the opportunity to continue to make political science a more inclusive discipline committed to intellectual and academic pluralism. She also hopes to represent in the APSA the concerns of faculty who work in underfunded public universities.