Blake Hereth, PhD

Blake Hereth, PhD (they/them), received their undergraduate degree in philosophy from Cedarville University in 2011. After completing their MA in philosophy at the University of Arkansas from 2012-2014, they spent a year as an adjunct professor at Drake University and Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. From 2015-2019, they completed a second MA in philosophy (2017) and a PhD in philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. After graduating, Dr. Hereth served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at their alma mater, the University of Arkansas, for two years (2019-2021), before accepting a research position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (2021-2023), where they worked under a U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to investigate the ethics of warfighter enhancement. Subsequent to their time at UMass Lowell, Dr. Hereth served for one academic year as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wexler Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where they worked to model ethicist engagement in private neurotechnology companies. In addition to these positions, Dr. Hereth has served as Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession, where they have spearheaded efforts to advance the interests of LGBTQ persons within professional philosophy, including bioethics.