Carol C. Gould is Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches in the Philosophy Department at Hunter and in the doctoral programs in Philosophy and Political Science at the Graduate Center, where she is also Director of the Center for Global Ethics & Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute. She is the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Gould is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT, 1978), Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society (Cambridge, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge, 2004), which won the 2009 David Easton Award from the American Political Science Association. Her new book Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice will be published shortly by Cambridge University Press. Gould has edited or co-edited seven books, including Women and Philosophy (1978), The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking (1989) , Gender (1999) and Cultural-Identity and the Nation-State (2003). She has published numerous articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of law, and applied ethics. Gould has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson International Centers for Scholars.