Kukla received their BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, and their PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where their supervisor was John Haugeland. Kukla held various academic appointments in the United States and Canada before taking up their current post at Georgetown; these include Johns Hopkins University, Queen's University, Carleton University, and the University of South Florida. At the latter, they were Professor in both the Department of Philosophy and in the School of Medicine. Kukla is Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and former Editor-in-Chief of Public Affairs Quarterly. They were formerly co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network. They are currently finishing an MA in Geography at CUNY. Kukla has been interviewed about their work in various venues, including 3AM, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, and Quartz. Their work on historical, cultural, and political attitudes towards bodies, especially those of mothers and pregnant women - found in their book, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies - has led to them being interviewed or authoring media articles on topics including the culture of pregnancy, sexual fetish, and attitudes towards race and obesity. They are a vocal defender of women and ethnic and other minorities, especially in academia, and has been interviewed in the media on this topic. Kukla is a certified sommelier and a competitive boxer and powerlifter. They have won national and state-level medals in powerlifting.
Publications
BOOKS R. Kukla and M. Lance, ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons.. R. Kukla, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers’ Bodies.. EDITED BOOKS J. Arras, R. Kukla, and E. Fenton, ed. A Routledge Companion to Bioethics. : Routledge, 2012. R. Kukla, ed. Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy. : Cambridge University Press, 2006. ARTICLES Kukla has published widely in social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of the applied sciences especially geography and medicine, and feminist and anti-oppressive philosophy. For a full list of their articles, see their .
