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Research

 

Publications

  • “Equitable Access to For-Credit and Paid Internships,” with Melissa Repa, Jaime Jackson, Ann Moylan, Tina Torres, Nicole Franco, and Noel Mora, Metropolitan Universities Journal 36(2) (2025).
  • “Developing Equitable and Mutually Beneficial Virtual Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities,” with Casey Knifsend, Metropolitan Universities Journal (forthcoming)
  • “Academic Internships in Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy 45(4) (2022).
  • “Service Learning in Philosophical Ethics,” Teaching Ethics 20(1/2)(2021): 91-112
  • “Should Undocumented Immigrants Have Access to Public Benefits,” Social Philosophy Today 35 (2019): 41-58.
  • “Political Refugees and Economic Migrants,” in Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship, eds. Kelly Oliver, Lisa Madura, and Sabeen Ahmed (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).
  • DiSilvestro, R., Choe-Smith, C., Houk, T., S. Ayala-Lopz, “The road to HEAVEN is paved with good intentions: Transplanting heads, manipulating selves, and reassigning genders,” American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 8(4): 223-225 (2017). . 
  • DiSilvestro, R., Choe-Smith, C., Houk, T., I Just Wanna Get My Self, or My Story, Back Again: Narrative Identity, Neurosurgical Intervention, and the Temporary Change Argument, American Journal of Bioethics (2017).
  • “Confronting Ethical Permissibility in Animal Research: Rejecting a Common Assumption and Extending a Principle of Justice,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, special issue, eds. Beauchamp, T., Gluck, J., and Ferdowsian, H. (invited article, April 2014).
  • “Extending Human Research Protections to Nonhuman Animals: The Belmont Report and a Principled Approach” with Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., in The Politics of Species, Lanjouw, A. and Corbey, R. (Cambridge University Press, September 2013).
  • “Just International Normative Structure,” Public Reason, vol. 4, nos. 1-2, December 2012.

 

Selected Recent Presentations

  • “Executive Power, Deportations, and Immigrant Rights,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, El Paso, Texas, July 2025.
  • “Career-Focused Experiential Learning: Academic Internships & Enhanced Pedagogy,” with Jaime Jackson, Community Engagement Center Showcase, Sacramento, California, April 2025.
  • “Equitable Access to For-Credit and Paid Internships,” with Melissa Repa, Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2024.
  • “Temporary Protection Status and the Treatment of Different Migrant Groups,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, Omaha, Nebraska, July 2024.
  • “Becoming Equity Centered in Community Engagement,” with Ann Moylan, Rachelle Davis, and Noel Mora, Anti-Racism and Inclusive Plan Spring Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, March 2023.
  • “Developing Accessible & Mutually Beneficial Virtual Community Engagement Learning Opportunities,” with Casey Knifsend, Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 2022.
  • "COVID-19 Vaccinations and Global Public Health," Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Seminar (online), Stanford University School of Medicine, November 2021. 
  • "Undocumented Immigrants and Public Benefits," Leadership Ethics Guest Lecture (online), University of Richmond, October 2021.
  • “Immigration, Sanctuary, and Civil Disobedience,” 78th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2020 (accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19).
  • “Philosophy Internships,” Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), San Diego, California, June 2020 (accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19).
  • “A Tale of Two Cities: Immigration, Sanctuary, and Law Enforcement,” 36th International Social Philosophy Conference, University of San Francisco, California, July 2019.
  • “The Human Rights of Political Refugees,” American Philosophical Association, Central Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 2017.
  • “The State, Race, Privacy, and Equality: A Rights-Based Approach to Racial-Profiling,” AMINTAPHIL Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 2016.
  • “The Plausibility of Legitimacy as a Motivating Reason for Enforcing International Human Rights Law,” Midwest Political Science Association 2016 Conference, April 2016
  • “Universal Human Rights as a Limit on the Legitimate Exercise of Political Authority,” 8th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2014.
  • “An Analysis of Equality: Respecting Women and Respecting Cultural Diversity,” 31st International Social Philosophy Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, July 2014.
  • “Animal Rights and Animal Experimentation,” Invited Guest Speaker, Center for Practical and Professional Ethics, California State University, Sacramento, California, October 2013.
  • “Justice without Violence: Analyzing Alternatives to Force,” Justice: Violence and Forgiveness Conference, International Political Science Association, Research Committee on Political Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2013.