Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, PhD from UofT. maryjomacdonald.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3mkkvt2cohc2uSo looking forward to this next month! @piperls.bsky.social @rkingston.bsky.social @jennieci.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkvt2cohc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3m3xnhmoxc22gExcited to share my new article! I argue that Judith Drake’s (1696) case for women’s inclusion rests less on claims about the "unsexed mind" and more on her keen insight into the sociopolitical transformations of her time. @polityalsberuf.bsky.social https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73815124 Oct 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3xnhmoxc22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3m2buuyi63c23Geertje Bol on canon construction and history of women philosophers! https://www.the-tls.com/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/disappearing-ink-by-eileen-oneill-book-review-geertje-bol03 Oct 2025 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2buuyi63c23https://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lvymxnw4g22fMost depictions of St. Christopher show him holding a child, but in a wooden church in Finland I saw him with an entire pulpit on his head. Patron saint of carrying things, I guess.09 Aug 2025 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvymxnw4g22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3loqkvimx7s23Such an encouraging and constructive few days. And how fun to be in a monastery during the election of a new pope! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqkvimx7s23https://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lh7sgftaos2sA year ago today, I moved from Canada to Finland. At the time, several of my family members expressed concern about my relocation because Finland shares a border with a country whose leader is bent on territorial expansion. Thinking about this for no particular reason today.02 Feb 2025 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7sgftaos2shttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lgxbqadq4k2tDelighted to share the programme for the upcoming "Monsters and Domesticity" workshop at the University of Jyväskylä.30 Jan 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxbqadq4k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3ldb5vfkim22tReminded of Smith's LRB article today, in which she argues that we should avoid describing women philosophers as 'forgotten'. She argues that this language may "encourage us to ‘forget’ the writers, usually women themselves, who have fought to correct that record?" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/sophie-smith/a-comet-that-bodes-mischief14 Dec 2024 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldb5vfkim22thttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lckdbxlphk2gCFP: Women in the History of Political Thought Conference. Do share widely! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckdbxlphk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lcdfotltxs2lFascinating review and discussion of the soundscapes, and forced silence, in female residential institutions in renaissance Italy. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/soundscapes-of-the-silenced-a-veil-of-silence-rombough/?lp_txn_id=159384402 Dec 2024 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdfotltxs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/maryjomacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lbafzd7mpc2iOne thing driving me nuts in the Toronto bike lanes fiasco: the uncritical repetition of Ford's claim about 'gridlock'. Gridlock is a specific type of traffic congestion (when networks of intersecting streets become so full that movement is impossible), and Toronto's major arteries do not have it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/ontario-toronto-bike-lanes18 Nov 2024 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:fwhxhe5m65giel3lo6shd7bj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbafzd7mpc2i