Below is a summary of my academic and professional background. For further information or for a copy of my full Curriculum vitae, please contact me at abigail.bergeron@queensu.ca
Queen's University, Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) 2023 - [in progress]
Queen's University, Master of Laws (LLM) 2023 - 2024
Queen's University, Master of Arts (MA) 2022 -2023
Swansea University, Bachelor of Laws (LLB) 2019 - 2022
Trent University, Bachelor of Arts Honours (BA) 2017 - 2022
Teaching Assistant (Queen's University)
PHIL252 Epistemology (Winter 2026)
PHIL253 Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2025)
PHIL151 Great Works of Philosophy ASO (Summer 2025)
PHIL111 What is Philosophy? (Fall 2024 - Winter 2025)
PHIL151 Great Works of Philosophy ASO (Summer 2024)
PHIL151 Great Works of Philosophy (Winter 2024)
PHIL263 Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2023)
PHIL204 Philosophy of Life, Death and Meaning (Winter 2023)
PHIL247 Practical Ethics (Fall 2022)
Teaching Assistant (Trent University)
PHIL1000 Introduction to Knowledge & Reality (Fall 2025)
PHIL3280/4280 Philosophy of Dreams (Fall 2025)
PHIL3370 Cyberethics (Summer 2025)
PHIL2390 Biomedical Ethics (Summer 2025)
PHIL3280/4280 Philosophy of Dreams (Winter 2025)
PHIL3430 Early Modern Philosophy (Winter 2025)
PHIL2390 Biomedical Ethics (Winter 2025)
PHIL2010 Love & Desire (Winter 2025)
PHIL2390 Biomedical Ethics (Fall 2024)
PHIL2270 Philosophy of Mind (Fall 2024)
PHIL-COIS3270 Philosophy of AI (Fall 2024)
PHIL1000 Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge & Reality (Winter 2024)
PHIL2010 Love & Desire (Winter 2024)
PHIL3140 Justice & Rights (Fall 2023)
PHIL2270 Philosophy of Mind (Fall 2023)
PHIL2150 Philosophy of Law (Winter 2023)
PHIL1000 Introduction to the Philosophy Knowledge & Reality (Fall 2021)
Guest Lectures
"Thoreau and Civil Disobedience." March 13 2025 PHIL111 What is Philosophy?
"Philosophical Literacy and Writing 101." January 13 2025 PHIL111 What is Philosophy?
"Research Skills for Philosophical Writing." November 4 2024, Queen's University PHIL111 What is Philosophy?
"Gabriel Marcel on Fanaticism" November 15 2023, Queen's University PHIL373 Continental Philosophy
"Introduction to Henry David Thoreau" March 23 2023, Queen's University PHIL204 Philosophy of Life, Death and Meaning
"Albert Camus and The Myth of Sisyphus" February 2 2023, Queen's University PHIL204 Philosophy of Life, Death and Meaning
"Lab-Grown Meat and Eating Non-Human Animals" November 8 2022, Queen's University PHIL247 Practical Ethics
Conferences
April 2025 — Illinois State University. AI & the Humaninities, An Interdisciplinary
June 2023 — Queen's University 2023 Political Studies Graduate Student Association
(PSGSA) Graduate Conference: Emerging Technologies in the Age of Digital Censorship, Surveillance and Repression. Selected to present my project, "Reflections of the (Cyber) Guillotine: 'Cancel Culture' and Epistemic Hardening."
May 2023 — University of Victoria, Social Movemnets & Technology Graduate Conference. Selected to
present my project, "Reflections of the (Cyber) Guillotine: 'Cancel Culture' and Epistemic Hardening."
May 2022 — Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.
Selected to present my project, "Is Block a 'Blockhead?' A Critical Examination of Phenomnela and Access Consciousness."
April 2022 — Trent University Philosophy Society Student Symposium. Selected to present my project, "Is
Block a 'Blockhead?' A Critical Examination of Phenomnela and Access Consciousness."
April 2021 — Trent University Philosophy Society Student Symposium. Selected to present my project,
"Epistemic Injustice and Subjectivity."
April 2019 — Trent University Philosophy Society Student Symposium. Selected to present my project,
"John: on Fish."
Ontario Graduate Scholarship — 2025
Queen's 2024-25 Graduate Dean's Doctoral Field Travel Grant — 2025
Franklin and Helene Bracken/McLaughlin Fellowship, Queen's University — 2024
William C. Leggett Graduate Fellowship, Queen's University — 2023
2023-2024 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Social Justice, Queen's University — 2023
The Barnard Scholarship, Western University — 2023 [declined award]
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University — 2023 [declined award]
The Sophia Prize, Trent University — 2022
Special Student Essay Prize, Foundation for Philosophical Orientation — 2022
Canadian Graduate Scholarship Master's Award (CGS-M), Brock University — 2022 [declined award]
The Gadfly Prize, Trent University — 2021
James Middleton Essay Prize in the Humanities, Trent University — 2019
Bruce Barrett Memorial Prize in Philosophy, Trent University — 2018
Trent University National Full Entrance/Renewable Scholarship — 2017 - 2018