Dr. Sandra Woien is currently an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU). She currently teaches a variety of courses dealing with ethics and ancient thought including Bioethics, Business Ethics, Well-Being: Philosophy of Happiness, Ancient Philosophy, and Stoicism. She holds certificates in teaching and curriculum design through The Association of College and University Educators and Quality Matters, and she is a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer.

Sandra holds a doctorate in Philosophy from Arizona State University (ASU) along with a certificate in Bioethics, Policy, and Law. During her time in the doctoral program, she completed an internship in Clinical Ethics at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale that involved sitting on the ethics committee and assisting in the education of medical residents. She also served on two different Institutional Review Boards at ASU, and consulted with the Arizona Bioethics Network on developing educational materials for medical providers and patients. Prior to joining the SHPRS faculty, she was an assistant professor in Health Care Ethics at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and she worked with a variety of health professional students including teaching graduate-level classes on leadership and professional development.

Sandra has a knack for making complex philosophical concepts accessible to a lay audience. She is the editor of Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses, where she assembled a group of scholars to critically assess the ideas of Jordan Peterson. This volume aimed to make a scholarly critique of his ideas accessible to a wide audience. In this volume, she contributed a chapter in which she compared and contrasted Peterson’s theory of the good with the Stoic conception. In her follow-up volume, Sam Harris: Critical Responses, she also aimed to make scholars’ thinking about Harris’s claim accessible to a wide audience. In this volume, her chapter offered an in-depth critique of his view of well-being. Her writing, which bridges the gap between academic and popular culture, has been commended for its ability to engage both scholars and general readers.

Beyond her scholarship, Sandra is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of ancient wisdom in the lives of individuals seeking personal growth and meaning. Her commitment to bridging the gap between the past and the present has also led her to develop innovative curricula, where she distills ancient insights into practical tools that can be used to enhance wellbeing.