Rate My Professor Kristina Grob

Kristina Grob serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Sumter, where she also holds the positions of Chair of the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering and Chair of the Division of Business Administration and Economics within the Division of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago in 2014, an M.A. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago in 2007, an M.A. in Women's and Gender Studies from Loyola University Chicago in 2005, and a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Carthage College in 2003. Grob was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure in 2023. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC Sumter and as Visiting Assistant Professor at Spring Hill College from August 2016 to July 2017. Her administrative roles include multiple terms on the Palmetto College Faculty Senate, representing USC Sumter.

Grob's scholarly work centers on ethics, feminist philosophy, the role of silence in moral transformations, Beauvoir scholarship, reproductive justice, and philosophy pedagogy, particularly metacognition in two-year college settings. Key publications include the co-authored book Thinking Critically About Abortion with Nathan Nobis (Open Philosophy Press, 2019); the chapter “Defining ‘Abortion’ and Critiquing Common Arguments about Abortion” (with Nathan Nobis) in College Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Bob Fischer (Oxford University Press, 2020); “Teaching the Students We Have So They Become the Learners They Need to Be: Metacognition in Philosophy at Two-Year Colleges” in the APA Newsletter on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges (May 2019); and public pieces such as “Want a Good Job? Major in Philosophy” in America: The Jesuit Review (August 2020) and “Abortion and Soundbites: Why Pro-Choice Arguments are Harder to Make” (with Nathan Nobis) in Areo Magazine (July 2019). Forthcoming articles are “The Master’s Tools Revisited: Implicit Gender Essentialisms in Second Wave Beauvoir Scholarship” and “Tracking the Transformation from Benign Silence to Harmful Silencing,” both in Southwest Philosophical Studies. She teaches PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 211: Contemporary Moral Issues, WGST 112: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, PHIL 335: Disobedience, Dissent, and Revolution, PHIL 334: Feminist Philosophy, and PHIL 320: Ethics, offered in both online and face-to-face formats. Grob has been recognized as a recipient of the Thank-A-Teacher Program award for Fall 2022 and as a CIEL Faculty Fellow since 2021, including the 2026 cohort in Philosophy at USC Sumter.