Education:
- PhD – Philosophy, University of Florida
- MA – Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
- BA – Philosophy, University of Tehran
Biography:
Dr. Shadi “Soph” Heidarifar (SHUH-dee HEY-da-ree-fahr – she/her) joined the Roseman University College of Medicine (RUCOM) in the Fall of 2024 as the Assistant Professor in Bioethics in the College of Medicine and a Graduate Faculty in the College of Graduate Studies. She has won multiple awards, grants, and fellowships for her graduate research, including the Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Award and CLAS Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Florida and the Educating Character Initiative Professional Development Grant at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Heidarifar’s work in bioethics, broadly construed, is organized around questions of non-ideal subjectivity in medicine across three dimensions of phenomenality: corporeality, futurity, and temporality. She examines these dimensions through work on cosmetic procedures (especially cosmetic gynecology), assisted reproductive technologies (especially egg freezing), and the structure of traumatic experiences (especially PTSD/C-PTSD). Her earlier publications in philosophy of education were developed during her doctoral training and supported by funded research projects.
Teaching Areas and research interests:
- AOS: Bioethics (broadly construed)
- AOC: Feminist Philosophy
Last updated: 01/26/2026