Carrie Jenkins

I'm a writer and philosopher based in Vancouver. My book What Love Is And What It Could Be was published in 2017 and Season 1 of my podcast Labels Of Love is now complete.

My work has recently been featured by:

• The Vancouver Writers Fest
• The New York Times
• TED
• NPR
• Vox
• CBC The Current
• Elle Canada
• The Globe and Mail
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Jezebel
• The Cut (New York Magazine)
• ABC Nightline

I'm currently:

• Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia
• Principal Investigator on the SSHRC funded project The Nature of Love 
• Co-Investigator on the John Templeton Foundation funded project Knowledge Beyond Natural Science

I have a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and have since held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Aberdeen. For more information about my academic career, see my academic CV. I am also working towards an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

I won one of the 2016 American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest awards.