Jennifer Bulcock is an assistant philosophy professor who joined Cabrini University’s philosophy and liberal studies department in August 2015. She has done a lot of research in the philosophy of medicine, bioethics and criminal justice ethics. She was also a research assistant at the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center.
She also earned her doctorate in philosophy from Rice University, and her master of arts degree for justice studies and her Bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from the University of New Hampshire.
Jennifer Bulcock is also the co-chair of the Honors program. She said that she wanted to get involved with students outside of philosophy major. As a philosophy professor, she can’t really bounce around to as many majors as she would like to. In order to reach out and help more students, she started to get involved with the honors program. This is also a way for her to have strong relationships with students.
Regarding her involvement with the “Inside-Out” program, she said that joining the program made sense because of what she taught.
“I also like working with men and women who are incarcerated so their voices can be heard,” Bulcock said. She said the reason why the program was so important to her was that having students connecting with the incarcerated and being able to have a normal conversation with them on certain topics. Students who interact with the incarnated humanizes them and have the students look through the lens of them as regular everyday citizens.
Bulcock explains her interest in philosophy, bioethics, and the criminal justice system. She said that originally she was going to grad school but she had decided not to because she couldn’t find a way to make a real impact on human life. When she grew her interest in bioethics and criminology she realized that she could use these interests to really improve human life.
“My dad says I have what he calls intellectual ADD. This means I get interested in things very quickly, and as long as there’s a human component I get interested very easily,” Bulcock said.
Some of the students talked about what kind of professor Jennifer Bulcock really was and to see what kind of impact she had on her students’ lives. Samar Dahleh said Bulcock is the reason why she majors in philosophy now. Julia Smith said that the way she teaches is very straight forward but that she’s very personal about it as well. Fabiola Alfred said the reason why Bulcock got her interested in philosophy is that she takes the factors of philosophy and applies to today’s issues.
