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Barbara Muraca is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Her research focuses on Environmental and Social Philosophy, Process Philosophy, and Political Ecology. Prior to working at University of Oregon she was Assistant Professor of Environmental and Social Philosophy at Oregon State University and Senior Researcher (Post-Doc) at the Center for Advanced Studies 'Post-growth Societies' at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Jena, Germany. Muraca received her MA in Philosophy from the University of Turin, Italy, and her Ph.D. from the University of Greifswald, Germany. From 2014 to 2020 she was co-director of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP). From 2018 to 2022 she was a Lead Author for the IPBES assessment on the multiple values of nature (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services).