Kimberly Garchar

Kimberly Garchar is Associate Professor of philosophy at Kent State University and an affiliated faculty member at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). 

She is the co-editor of Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought (Oxford UP, 2020, with Melissa Shew, Marquette University). The book has been translated into Vietnamese (2023), Persian (2025), and is currently being translated into Chinese and Japanese. Additionally, she is the author of articles and book chapters in death and dying, clinical ethics, American philosophy, and ethics; her current work interrogates moral personhood, responses to suffering, metaphor in medicine, and Dewey's philosophy of imagination. 

Dr. Garchar came to Kent State in 2008 after receiving her doctorate at the University of Oregon in 2006 and spending two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Denver’s Health and Sciences Center (now known as the Anschutz Medical Campus).