She held visiting professorships at The Goethe Institute (Frankfurt, Germany), Dartmouth College (Hanover NH), and the University of Pittsburgh.

In nominating her for this award, her department chair, Russ Shafer-Landau, said, "Her books and articles have become as essential to feminist thinking as Das Kapital is to labor theory.

She paid special attention to the ethical theories of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, and had read widely in history, sociology, and survivor testimony.

Card had previously taken some controversial stances, such as arguing against marriage, on the grounds that it gives each party rights over the person of the other that no one should have, and as being especially dangerous to women within patriarchy.

[7] Standing up for the oppressed and for persons at risk had marked her work from the start, in her classic and still oft-cited "On Mercy.

She applied, tested, and extended this revised account in examining the moral wrongs of terrorism, torture, and genocide.

The book also included attention to surviving long-term mass atrocities, poverty, and global and local misogyny.

Card introduced the concept of "social death", originally developed by Orlando Patterson, into the field of genocide studies.

[19] Card proposed that the final aim of genocide was to enact social death on a group, which does not always necessarily include the mass murder of its members.

After radiation treatment, months of rehabilitation and therapy, Card died, surrounded by her family, on September 12, 2015, at the age of 74, 18 days before her 75th birthday.