Kathryn Norlock (born 1969) is the inaugural Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics, the Chair of the Department of Philosophy, an affiliated faculty member in Sustainability Studies, and an associated faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University.
[1][2] In 2015, she co-founded Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, which is open access, peer-reviewed, and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
[2] Before coming to Trent, Norlock held appointments at St. Mary's College of Maryland from 2001 to 2010, and served as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison prior to that.
[4] Norlock has written extensively on issues surrounding the importance of the retention of women and people of color in academia.
[4][6] She argues that the dominant philosophical approach to forgiveness - the Kantian model - is significantly flawed because it assumes the parties involved are individualistic, rationally self-interested, and autonomous.