Amanda Roth
Professor & Chair
Welles 107A
(585)245-6354
rothal@geneseo.edu
Roth joined the faculty in 2014. She attended Lafayette College as an undergraduate and the University of Michigan for her Ph.D. Her main areas of specialization include Moral & Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy, and Gender & Sexuality. Her 2026 bookÌýÌýis available through Routledge Press.

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Curriculum Vitae
Education
B.A., Lafayette College (2004)
Ph.D. University of Michigan (2010)
Recent Publications
ÌýRoutledge, 2026
œJustice for Women/Gestators: Superior Personhood or Plain Old Feminism?� Journal of Medical Ethics 50, 1 (2023): 22-23. (commentary on Heloise Robinson™s œPregnancy and Superior Moral Status: A Proposal for Two Thresholds of Personhood�)
“When does the fetus acquire the moral status of a human being? The philosophy of gradualism can provide answers.” The Conversation, June 30, 2022
œDonor Conception, Genetic Knowledge, and Bionormativity: A Book Review of Daniel Groll™s Conceiving People� Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, (2023).
œAnonymous vs. Open Donation and Queerness as Political: Comments on Groll™s Conceiving People,� International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 16, 1 (2023): 166-81. (as part of a symposium on Groll™s book)
œNonideal Theory and Ethical Pragmatism in Bioethics: Value Conflicts in LGBTQ+ Family-Making� in Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, edited by Elizabeth Victor and Laura Guidry-Grimes 2021
