Dr. Becky Vartabedian is an engaged and creative teacher, offering courses in the history of philosophy, in metaphysics, in philosophy’s relationship to art, and philosophy’s intersections with race, gender, and sexuality. Dr. Vartabedian contributes to the First-Year Experience, to the Integrative Core, and to the Peace and Justice and Women’s and Gender Studies programs. She serves as the Department Chairperson through spring 2024.
Dr. Vartabedian is a specialist in contemporary Continental philosophy and has published work investigating metaphysics (questions of being, becoming, and change), philosophical logic, and Continental philosophy’s engagements with mathematics. Dr. Vartabedian also maintains research profiles in the environmental humanities, and critical phenomenology (especially critical race theory and critical whiteness studies). All her research is informed by her comprehensive training in the history of philosophy, which encourages understanding ideas in their original contexts and prospect for conversation among thinkers past and present.
Dr. Vartabedian believes in collaborative research practices and works directly with students to work toward academic publication and presentation. Most recently she and a group of Philosophy majors and minors completed a book chapter on the work of contemporary American philosopher George Yancy. This book chapter is part of the forthcoming volume from Rowman and Littlefield Press titled George Yancy: a Critical Reader.
Before returning to Regis in 2012 - Dr. Vartabedian is a 2001 graduate of Regis - she taught at the Community College of Aurora, at Metro State University of Denver, and at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she completed her Ph.D.
