Curriculum Vitae 
Karl Martin Adam
kmadam@live.unc.edu
https://www.karlmartinadam7.wixsite.com/mysite
Education
Ph.D. in philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (expected May 2022). 
Dissertation: Justice, Colonialism, and the State.
My dissertation argues that the distinctive wrong of colonialism is domination in the republican sense of subjection to the arbitrary will of another, and further that preventing domination grounds certain territorial rights. I then use this account to address the philosophy of immigration and argue both that the most popular open borders arguments justify settler colonialism unless qualified by a defense of territorial rights like my own, and that many of the most popular arguments for closed borders do not do a good job of accounting for the rights of indigenous peoples. Finally, I address the objection that my argument does not work for indigenous peoples because a state is necessary to secure non-domination by showing that, pace the most influential republican theorists, non-state societies can secure non-domination for their members. 
Committee: Luc Bovens (chair), Gerald Postema, and Susan Wolf. 

MA in philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2018.
Thesis: "Settler-Colonialism and Arguments for Open Borders."
My thesis shows the parallel structure of the most popular arguments for open borders and historical justifications of settler colonialism and then argues for a right of political communities to impose (some) border controls to prevent domination. 
Committee: Gerald Postema (chair), Susan Wolf, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord. 

BA in Philosophy, Anthropology, and History, summa cum laude, Oakland University, April 2016. 

Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts, summa cum laude, Oakland Community College, December 2011. 
Areas of Specialization
•	Social and Political philosophy
•	Practical ethics
•	Normative ethics
Areas of Competence
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•	Africana philosophy
•	American Indian/First Nations 

•	Chinese philosophy
•	Early Modern Western philosophy 
•	PPE
Honors and Awards
•	Philosophy Department non-service fellowship, Fall 2020-Fall 2021.
•	Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities, 2020-2021 school year. 
•	Parr Center for Ethics Graduate Research Assistant, 2019-2020 school year. 
•	Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2018-2019 school year. 
•	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Merit Assistantship, 2017-2018 school year. 
•	Horace Williams Fellowship (non-service), 2016-2017 school year. 
•	Oakland University College of Arts and Sciences Meritorious Achievement Award 2016.
•	Eugene Howe McDonald III Memorial Philosophy Award, 2016. 
•	Eugene Howe McDonald III Memorial Philosophy Award, 2015. 
•	Eugene Howe McDonald III Memorial Philosophy Award, 2014. 
•	Werner Holzbock Endowed Humanities Scholarship for philosophy, 2014.
•	Werner Holzbock Endowed Humanities Scholarship for philosophy, 2013. 
•	Winner, Burke Philosophy Essay Contest for my paper, "Necessity and Knowledge: A Response to Saul Kripke," 2013. 
•	Delivered the address at the honors convocation for Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills, April 2012. 
•	Philosophy Student of the Year Oakland Community College, Highland Lakes, 2009-2010 school year. 
Conference Presentations and Comments
"On Teaching Disabled Students" accepted for a Panel on Ableism in Higher Education at the Central American Philosophical Association conference, February 2022.

"Against Epistocracy: A Response to Jason Brennan" Accepted for the annual conference of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, February 2022.

"The Problem of Supererogation: A Rossian Response" presented at the CRÉ/Parr/Hoover Joint Conference, May 2021.

"The Marxian Critique of Indigenous Rights: A Response" accepted for the annual conference of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, March 2020 (conference canceled due to pandemic).

Comment on "Kant and Dignity: Missed Connections with the United States" by Karl Ameriks at the Workshop on Kant's Practical Philosophy, held at UNC October 2019. 

"Political Legitimacy Without the State: A Republican Defense of the Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples" presented at the annual conference of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, March 2019.

"The Slippery Slope to Justice: An Argument for the Recognition of Polygamy" presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, July 2015. 

Teaching
Courses Taught Independently
•	Phil 165—Bioethics, scheduled for Summer II 2022.
•	Phil 213--Asian Philosophy, 2022.
•	Phil 220--17th and 18th Century Western Philosophy, Summer II, 2021. 
•	Phil 274--African American Social and Political Thought, Summer I, 2020. 
•	Phil 261--Ethics in Action, Fall 2019. 
•	Phil/Poli/PWAD 272--The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense, Summer II, 2019. 
•	Phil 170--Social Ethics and Political Thought, Spring 2019. 
•	Phil 154--Philosophy of Social Science, Fall 2018. 
•	Phil/Poli/PWAD 272--The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense, Summer II, 2018. 
Courses TAed
•	Phil/Poli/PWAD 272--The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense, Spring 2018 (for Douglas MacLean).
•	Phil 160--Introduction to Ethics, Fall 2017 (for Geoffrey Sayre-McCord).
Professional Service and Outreach
•	Participant in the Parr Center for Ethics philosophy in prisons program, 2020-present.
•	Presented as part of the UNC public philosophy colloquium series at the Carolina Meadows retirement community on November 12th, 2021.
•	Led Philosophy, Politics, and Economics reading group on The New Jim Crow by Michele Alexander, fall 2020. 
•	Member, Parr Center for Ethics Hiring Committee, Spring 2020. 
•	Parr Center for Ethics Graduate Research Assistant, 2019-2020 school year. 
•	Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program affiliated Graduate Student, 2019-present. 
•	Parr Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow, 2019-present. 
•	Member, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Hiring Committee, 2019-2020 school year.
•	Member, Undergraduate Student Committee, 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 school years.
•	Led Philosophy, Politics, and Economics reading group on The Federalist Papers, Spring 2018. 
•	Member, Graduate Student Committee, 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 school years.
•	Graduate Student Faculty Liaison, 2017-2018 school year.
•	Judge for the North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl and the National High School Ethics Bowl, 2017-present.
Graduate Coursework (* indicates courses audited)
•	Hume’s Moral Philosophy, Jeoffrey Sayre-McCord (in progress).
•	*Bioethics Methods, Rebecca Walker.
•	*Political Epistemology, Alex Worsnip. 
•	*Classics in Moral Philosophy, Susan Wolf and Douglas MacLean. 
•	*Contemporary Moral Theory, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord. 
•	*Nietzsche, Markus Kohl. 
•	*Colonialism and Post-Colonialism: History and Anthropology, Townsend Middleton. 
•	*Consent, Tom Dougherty. 
•	*Kant's Practical Philosophy, Markus Kohl. 
•	Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Gerald Postema. 
•	Normative Epistemology, Alex Worsnip. 
•	Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Luc Bovens. 
•	Theoretical Virtues, Marc Lange. 
•	Comparative Ethics: Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology, David Wong. 
•	Feminist Theory, Susan Wolf. 
•	Descartes, Alan Nelson. 
•	Research Seminar in Political Philosophy: Equality, Gerald Postema. 
•	Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography, Townsend Middleton. 
•	Aristotle's Politics, David Reeve and Mariska Leunissen. 
•	Moral Attitudes, Thomas Hill. 
•	Philosophy of Psychology: (Ir)rationality, Alex Worsnip. 
•	Proto-Seminar, Alan Nelson and John Roberts. 
•	Bernard Williams, Susan Wolf and Douglas MacLean. 
•	Empiricism, Alan Nelson. 
•	History of Moral Philosophy, Thomas Hill. 
•	Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Thomas Hofweber. 
•	*Pragmatism, Simon Blackburn.