Peggy Jo DesAutels is an American academic and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Dayton.
[1][2][3] She has received multiple awards and recognitions including Distinguished Woman in Philosophy for 2014 by the Eastern Division of Society for Women in Philosophy, and the 2017 Philip L. Quinn Prize by the American Philosophical Association.
[2][4][5] At the University of Dayton she helped organize the "Diversity in Philosophy" conference in 2013; and the same year her team made national headlines for uncovering and reporting on sexual harassment at the University of Colorado.
She criticized the lack of gender parity in philosophy, as well as the prevalence of sexual harassment in academia, the underrepresentation of women philosophers in tenure-track positions, and the number of philosophy conferences with all-male lineups.
[1] In 2017, DesAutels was awarded the Philip L. Quinn Prize by the American Philosophical Association.