Carla Fehr is a professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo where she holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.
[1] From 1999 until 2011 she was an associate professor of philosophy and affiliate faculty member of Women's Studies at Iowa State University.
[6] Fehr is a founder and associate director of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women's Site Visit Program, a program aimed at gathering information about the challenges women and other minorities face in philosophy and examining the practices and climates of specific departments and making evidence-based and context sensitive recommendations as to how those departments can help improve their climates.
[1] Fehr's research focuses on attempting to explain how people acting in good faith tend to resist acknowledging the systemic biases inherent in academia and other institutions, and on how to help alleviate these issues.
[1] She has also contributed chapters to a number of books, including chapters in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of Biology, and Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics.