Dr. Jan Boxill is the Director of the Parr Center for Ethics, Chair of the Faculty, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Boxill writes and teaches about ethics, social and political philosophy, and feminist theory. She is currently working on a book, Front Porch Ethics: The Moral Significance of Sport and co-editing (with Chuck Stone) an anthology, Free Speech and Censorship. In addition, she is editor of Sports Ethics (Blackwell 2003) and Issues in Race and Gender (2000). Sample publications: "Beauty, Gender and Sport," Journal of Philosophy of Sport (1985); "Title IX and Gender Equity," Journal of Philosophy of Sport (1994), "Affirmative Action," co-authored with Bernard Boxill, Applied Ethics Reader, ed. by Wellman (2003); “Football and Feminism,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (2006). Boxill spent 20 years as the public address announcer for Carolina women’s basketball, and she still serves as the public address announcer for women’s field hockey and as radio color analyst for women’s basketball.
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