Rate My Professor Kristina Grob

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.