Margaret Urban Walker (born August 8, 1948)[2] is an American philosopher and academic who is the Donald J. Schuenke Chair Emerita in Philosophy at Marquette University.
[4] Walker (born Margaret Urban)[5] received her bachelor's in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1969.
[6] During her second visiting appointment at the Catholic University of Leuven, she was the first woman to hold the Cardinal Mercier Chair in Philosophy.
[1][4] She has contributed to research projects with the International Center for Transitional Justice on gender and reparations and truth commissions.
[6] She was drawn to this area through her earlier work, in which she focused on the effects of social inequalities on the way morality is understood in ethics and everyday life.