Dr. Kristie Dotson is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Interim Chair of the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. She specializes in epistemology and feminist philosophy as well as the critical philosophy of race, particularly in the 19th and early 20th century United States. Her publications feature in AlterNative, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Ethics and Education, Social Epistemology, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, The Black Scholar, Philosophical Compass, and Ethnic and Racial Studies Review, among others. Her forthcoming manuscript, Bad Magic: Normative Epistemology in a World of Difference is currently under contract with Oxford University Press. She received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2008.
Kristie Dotson is Meghan Wilson's mentor.