{"id":2178,"date":"2020-02-12T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=2178"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:00:00","slug":"bates-profiles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/block-editor\/bates-specific-features\/bates-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Display information about someone at Bates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In a new block, type \/bates and select &#8220;Bates Profile&#8221;<\/li><li>Enter the individual&#8217;s Bates username<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2020\/03\/bates-profile.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2328\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\">\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class='directory-result-name'>H. Jay J. Burns Jr.<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class='directory-result-email'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='mailto:jburns@bates.edu'>jburns@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class='directory-result-departmentWithTitle'><span class='directory-result-title'>Editorial Consultant<\/span><br><span class='directory-result-department'>Bates Communications and Marketing Office<\/span><br><a class='directory-result-phone' href='tel:'><\/a><br><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Faculty<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In a new block, type \/faculty and select &#8220;Faculty Profile&#8221;<\/li><li>Enter the faculty member&#8217;s Bates username<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"faculty-profile js-shortcode-faculty-profile\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-left-col profile-col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"profile-business-card\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-image-col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Lauren M. Ashwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2015\/08\/Lauren-Ashwell-Headshot-e1443019310808-337x300.jpg\" class=\"profile-image wp-image-337\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-buscard-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"page-title profile-name\" style=\"\">Lauren M. Ashwell<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"profile-title\">Professor of Philosophy<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"department-meta departmental-associations\"><span class=\"profile-department\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhilosophy <span class=\"chair-flag\">Department Chair<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><p class=\"profile-location\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Shibboleth.sso\/Login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bates.edu%2Fdirectory%2F%3Flookup%3Dlashwell\">View office locations in Directory<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"profile-contact\" style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"tel:2077866306\" class=\"profile-phone profile-contact-link\">207-786-6306<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:lashwell@bates.edu\" class=\"profile-email profile-contact-link\">lashwell@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"profile-about\" style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>About<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., B.A., B.S., University of Auckland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Ashwell works primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and feminist philosophy, with particular interests in dispositions, desire, and objectification in each of these respective areas. In 2016-17, she was in residence at Harvard University, working on a project connecting her research in self-knowledge of desire with other work in feminist epistemology, and also continuing her work in philosophy of language on gendered slurs and hate speech. This leave was supported by a Bates Phillips Fellowship and an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/CV-2022-Ashwell.pdf\">Lauren Ashwell&#8217;s CV 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bates.academia.edu\/LaurenAshwell\">Link to Professor Ashwell&#8217;s academia.edu \u00a0page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>\u2018Possibilities of Misidentification,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophy, Psychiatry &amp;\u00a0Psychology,<\/em>forthcoming<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Introspection and the Nature of Desire,\u2019 for\u00a0<em>The Nature of Desire,<\/em>\u00a0ed. by Julien Deonna and Federico Lauria, Oxford University Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of Mind,\u2019 in<em>\u00a0Causal Powers<\/em>, ed. by Jonathan Jacobs, Oxford University Press, 167-176, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Gendered Slurs,\u2019\u00a0<em>Social Theory and Practice,<\/em>\u00a042(2): 228-239, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Metaphysics of Desire and Dispositions,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophy Compass<\/em>, 9(7): 469-477, 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Deep, Dark,\u2026or Transparent? Knowing Our Desires,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophical Studies,<\/em>\u00a0165(1): 245-256, 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Slaves to Fashion,\u2019 co-authored with Rae Langton, in\u00a0<em>Fashion \u2013 Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style,\u00a0<\/em>ed. by Jeanette Kennett and Jessica Wolfendale,\u00a0Chapter 9: 135-150,\u00a0Wiley-Blackwell, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Superficial Dispositionalism,\u2019\u00a0<em>Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, 88(4): 635-653, 2010<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"profile-right-col profile-col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"profile-expertise\" style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Expertise<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=desire\" rel=\"tag\">desire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=dispositional-properties\" rel=\"tag\">dispositional properties<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise&#038;term=epistemology\" rel=\"tag\">epistemology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=fashion-and-feminism\" rel=\"tag\">fashion and feminism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise&#038;term=feminist-philosophy\" rel=\"tag\">feminist philosophy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=introspective-knowledge\" rel=\"tag\">introspective knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise&#038;term=metaphysics\" rel=\"tag\">metaphysics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=objectification\" rel=\"tag\">objectification<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?taxonomy=expertise-specific&#038;term=semantics-of-gendered-slurs\" rel=\"tag\">semantics of gendered slurs<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"faculty-profiles-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-admin\/post.php?post_type=faculty-profile&#038;post=249&#038;action=edit\">Faculty Login<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<aside class=\"associated-stories\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Bates articles about Lauren M. Ashwell<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"associated-story\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/bates-announces-faculty-promotions-including-tenure-awards-for-2025\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBates announces faculty promotions, including tenure awards, for 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"_date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted <b>May 13, 2025<\/b>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin <b>News<\/b>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"_excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;Each of these faculty members advances the mission of Bates with great distinction,&#8221; said Malcolm Hill, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. <\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/aside>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><!--faculty-profile-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Display information about someone at Bates For Staff In a new block,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":0,"parent":4254,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178\/revisions\/2418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}