Pamela M. Hall
Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s Studies
pmhall@emory.edu

Professor Hall’s primary academic interests are in ethics, moral psychology, narrative, and feminist thought. She has published one book, Narrative and the Natural Law: An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), and is currently writing a book on tragedy, virtue ethics, and saints. As diverse as these subjects may seem, they are connected by an interest in moral pedagogy and in the place of history and of “moral luck” in ethical discovery. Her teaching interests include ethics, the history of feminist thought, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary courses in narrative and autobiography.

Professor Hall served as Chair of Women's Studies from 2003-2006. She received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities from Emory University in 1992, and she was awarded the Massee-Martin/ NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair for the term of 1998-2002. She has served on the Advisory Board of Emory’s Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions, Emory College’s Center for Teaching and Curriculum’s Board of Advisors, and on the national Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession of the American Philosophical Association.

Professor Hall, when not teaching, writing, or serving, enjoys working with her dogs (one of whom is a pet-assisted therapy dog), gardening, and birdwatching. She trusts this has nothing to do with tragedy, but she believes it is relevant to virtue.

Recent Women's Studies courses taught:
Narrative and Women's Selfhoods (graduate)
Teaching Women’s Studies (graduate)
History of Feminist Thought (undergraduate)