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Susan Dieleman is the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership and Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science, at the University of Lethbridge, where she has served since July 2023. Prior to this appointment, she held positions as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 2018 to 2023, the University of Saskatchewan from 2015 to 2018, and Dalhousie University from 2012 to 2015. Dieleman completed her PhD in Philosophy at York University in 2011, an MA in Public Policy and Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2012, an MA in Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2005, and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002. Her research focuses on pragmatism, particularly the philosophy of Richard Rorty, feminist philosophy especially epistemic injustice, and social and political philosophy with an emphasis on deliberative democracy. She is currently authoring a monograph exploring deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. Dieleman supervises graduate students in areas such as pragmatism and Richard Rorty.

Dieleman has produced a substantial body of scholarly work, including co-editing The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination (Routledge, 2022) with D. E. McClean and P. Showler, and Pragmatism and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017) with D. Rondel and C. Voparil. She co-authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry 'Richard Rorty' (2021) with B. Ramberg. Other significant publications encompass 'Richard Rorty: Narrative as Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and as Cultural Politics' in The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism (2023), 'Thinking with Rorty about How to Make Philosophy More Livable' in The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty (Routledge, 2021), 'Tinkering with Truth, Tinkering with Difference: Rorty and (Liberal) Feminism' in The Cambridge Companion to Rorty (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 'Epistemic Justice and Democratic Legitimacy' in Hypatia (2015), and 'Revisiting Rorty: Contributions to a Pragmatist Feminism' in Hypatia (2010). Her grant- and award-winning research has advanced understandings of democracy, inclusion, and progress within philosophical discourse.