research overview
- Dr. Mills's research focuses primarily on ethical issues regarding the family, as well as using ethical theory as a lens for analyzing children's literature.
- Contact Info
Mills, Claudia
Positions
- Assoc Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Philosophy
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, Rousseau, children's literature
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Philosophical Children's Literature for Upper Elementary and Middle School 2013
- Beyond Goofus and Gallant: Morally Charged Choices in Morally Complex Children's Literature 2012
- Rousseau Redux: Romantic Re-Visions of Nature and Freedom in Children's Literature about Home-Schooling 2012
- Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish 2011
- Not-So-Secret Gardens: Eden Eroded in Contemporary Children's Literature 2011
- Friendship, Fiction, and Memoir 2004
- Multiculturalism and Cultural Authenticity 2003
- What Do Fathers Owe Their Children? 2001
- Not a Mere Modus Vivendi: The Bases for Allegiance to the Just State 2000
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journal article
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Redemption through the Rural: The Teen Novels of Rosamond Du Jardin.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
48-65.
2013
- "Good in the way witches enjoy being good": The Reality of Morality in Eleanor Estes's The Witch Family. The Lion and the Unicorn. 320-332. 2010
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Alignment of the CMS silicon strip tracker during stand-alone commissioning.
Journal of Instrumentation.
2009
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Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation.
Journal of Instrumentation.
2009
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Stand-alone cosmic muon reconstruction before installation of the CMS silicon strip tracker.
Journal of Instrumentation.
2009
- New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations. The Lion and the Unicorn. 121-126. 2009
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"The Canary and the Nightingale": Performance and Virtue in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom.
Children's Literature.
109-138.
2006
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Utopia explored: Three recent fictionalizations of 'Fruitlands' for young readers.
Children's Literature in Education.
255-267.
2005
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The Child's Right to an Open Future?.
Journal of Social Philosophy.
499-509.
2003
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Artistic and moral imagination in The 'Hundred Dresses' by Eleanor Estes.
Children's Literature in Education.
167-174.
2002
- The philosopher's child: Critical essays in the Western tradition. The Lion and the Unicorn. 465-468. 2000
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Appropriating Others' Stories: Some Questions about the Ethics of Writing Fiction.
Journal of Social Philosophy.
195-206.
2000
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The ethics of reproductive control (Women facing reproductive choices and the Norplant program).
Philosophical Forum.
43-57.
1999
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The ambivalent urban idyll: The 'Saturdays' and 'Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown' (Children's literature).
Children's Literature in Education.
211-221.
1998
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Choice and circumstance.
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.
154-165.
1998
- The morals of modernity: Modern European philosophy - Larmore,C. Review of Metaphysics. 671-672. 1997
- The moral problem - Smith,M. Review of Metaphysics. 184-185. 1996
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Goodness as weapon (Motivation, moral philosophy).
Journal of Philosophy.
485-499.
1995
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The Distinctive Wrong of Terrorism.
International Journal of Applied Philosophy.
57-60.
1995
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IDENTIFYING TARGETS OF COMMUNICATION STYLES - AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
213-219.
1993
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Capitalist tools? Today's entrepreneurial novels for children.
Children's Literature in Education.
189-197.
1990
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Children in search of a family: Orphan novels through the century.
Children's Literature in Education.
227-239.
1987
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Redemption through the Rural: The Teen Novels of Rosamond Du Jardin.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
48-65.
2013
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Princeton University 1991
- M.L.S., University of Maryland College Park Campus 1988
- M.A., Princeton University 1979
- B.A., Wellesley College 1976
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- China Country