Carla Fehr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: 515.294.2484
Email: cfehr@iastate.edu
Homepage:http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cfehr/homepage.html

Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University
B.A., Biology and Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan

Role in the ISU ADVANCE Program
Dr. Carla Fehr is a co-PI, member of the co-PI Team and the ADVANCE Council. She develops and conducts training workshops for new ADVANCE Council members each year. She is a member of the ADVANCE Research Team, collecting and analyzing Round 2 focal department interview and focus group data. She also participates on the NSF Site Visit Planning Committee.

Dr. Fehr published a book chapter, 'Are Smart Men Smarter than Smart Women,' on the impact of studies of gender and intelligence on women in science. In Year 3 she presented her ADVANCE research as a plenary lecture, “Talking to Scientists About Diversity: Lessons from the Trenches,” at the Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodologies and Science Studies Association 2009 Meeting.

Research Interests

• Diversity in scientific communities
• Social features of scientific rationality
• Biology of sex and gender