Elizabeth K. Minnich is Distinguished Fellow with the American Association of Colleges and Universities. She has been Core Professor at the interdisciplinary Union Graduate School; Visiting Scholar at The Getty Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities; and the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, Philosophy and the Humanities at Scripps College. In 2011, the California Senate passed a resolution commending her "tireless work to end genocide, both now and in the future." She is the author of Transforming Knowledge (Temple) and The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking. She has chaired the North Carolina Humanities Council and the Committee for Public Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association and serves on the executive board for the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers.