Mary Golden Dietz (born c. 1951) is the John Evans Emerita Professor of Political Theory at Northwestern University.
[1] She holds a joint appointment in Northwestern's Department of Political Science and its Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
She is the author of many books and articles in feminist theory and the history of philosophy and her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, and Japanese.
Dietz graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 with a degree in political science.
[3] Her dissertation project was a critical reconstruction and interpretation of the political thought of the French mystic Simone Weil, who she encountered in the New York Review of Books referenced as "the 'other' most famous 'female philosopher' of the twentieth century.