Jeanette Marie Boxill (née Bozanic) is an American academic who was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was also Chair of the Faculty and Director of Parr Center for Ethics. Her writing and teaching relate broadly with ethical issues in social conduct, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and ethics in sports. She is editor of Sports Ethics: An Anthology and Issues in Race and Gender. She is past president of the International Association for Philosophy in Sport, serves on the board of the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium Committee, and chairs both the 2011 NCAA Scholarly Colloquium and the Education Outreach Program for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). For 25 years, Boxill was the public address announcer for UNC women's basketball and field hockey; she now serves as the radio color analyst for UNC women's basketball. She is a member of numerous professional associations (philosophy, sports, and the American Association of University Women) and has won a number of awards (from inside her institution and beyond) for teaching and professional contributions. Jan Boxill is married to Bernard Boxill, who also teaches philosophy as the Pardue Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UNC and focuses upon social and political philosophy and African American philosophy. She resigned from UNC in 2015 in the wake of the UNC Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal.
Jan Boxill was born Jeanette Marie Bozanic circa 1939 in Worcester, New York. Her father John was an immigrant from Yugoslavia, and her mother Martha was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.
After graduating from Worcester Central School in 1956, Bozanic joined the United States Air Force and played saxophone in the Women's Air Force Band. She then enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles using the G.I. Bill and played club basketball while completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Boxill completed her B.A. in 1967, then earned an M.A. in philosophy in 1975 then a Ph.D. also in philosophy in 1981, both also at UCLA. While at UCLA, she married Bernard R. Boxill.
Boxill resigned from her employment at UNC in February 2015, in which she is alleged to have steered athletes toward 'scam courses' in order to qualify for the school's sports teams. Boxill, who had been the faculty chair, a senior lecturer in ethics, and an academic counselor for athletes had been told on October 22, 2014, that her employment with the university would be terminated, but she had been appealing that institutional decision. Then, she announced her resignation on February 28, 2015. Systematic investigation of the 20-year-long 'incident' was published in The Wainstein Report, led by Kenneth L. Wainstein, former head of US Homeland Security under President George W. Bush The NCAA accused her of giving giving impermissible academic assistance and special arrangements to women’s basketball players, a claim she denied.
Publications
Books
Boxill, J. (Ed.). Sports Ethics: An Anthology. December 2002, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-21696-4, 376 pages
Boxill, J. (Ed.). Sports Ethics: An Anthology, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, Fall 2003.
Boxill, J. Issues in Race and Gender, edited anthology, Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2000.
Articles and review articles
Boxill, J. "Ethics and Making Ethical Decisions," Chapter for Introduction to Sports Management, edited by Richard Southall, Kendall-Hunt Publishers, forthcoming Spring 2010.
Boxill, J. "Football and Feminism," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Spring 2006.
Boxill, J. "Review of: Sport, Play & Ethical Reflection," by Randolph Feezell, University of Illinois Press, 2004, Ethics, 2006.
Boxill, J. "Review of: Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities," edited by Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti, BERG, Oxford and New York, 2003, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2004.
Boxill, J. "The Moral Significance of Sport," Introduction, Sports Ethics. 2003, pp. 1–14
Boxill, J. "The Ethics of Competition," Sports Ethics, pp. 107–114.
Boxill, J. "Title IX and Gender Equity," reprinted in Sports Ethics, pp. 254–261. Reprinted in, Issues in Gender and Race.
Boxill, J. "Review of Values in Sports," Ethics, 2002.
Boxill, J. "Affirmative Action Revisited," co-authored with Bernard Boxill, in A Companion to Applied Ethics, edited by R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, Blackwell Publishers, Fall, 2002, pp. 118–127. Reprinted in 2005 and 2008. ISBN 978-1405133456, ISBN 1405133457
Boxill, J. "Affirmative Action as Reverse Discrimination," Issues in Race and Gender, 2000, pp. 127–131
Boxill, J. "Title IX and Gender Equity," in Issues in Race and Gender, 2000, pp. 166–173.
Boxill, J. "Sport as a Forum for Public Ethics," Sports and Society, Telecourse integrating Sports and the Humanities, January 1999.
Boxill, J. "The Dunk and Women's Basketball," Women's Basketball Coaches Journal, March 1995.
Boxill, J. "Gender Equity and Title IX," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol. XX-XXI,1995.
Boxill, J. Review of Robert Simon's Fair Play: Sports, Values, & Society, in Ethics, Spring, 1993.
Boxill, J. Review of Gertrude Ezorsky's Affirmative Action, in Teaching Philosophy, Fall 1992.
Boxill, J. Review of Judith André's Rethinking College Athletics, in Ethics, Spring 1992.
Boxill, J. "Review of Justice, Morality and Education by Les Brown," Ethics, October 1987.
Boxill, J. "Review of Interpreting Education by Abraham Edel," Ethics, October 1987.
Boxill, J. "Review of Women, Philosophy and Sport by B.C. Postow," Teaching Philosophy, July 1985.
Boxill, J. "Beauty, Gender and Sport," Journal of Philosophy of Sport, 1985. Reprinted in Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, edited by William J. Moran and Klaus V. Meier, Human Kinetics Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0873227166; ISBN 978-0873227162.
Work in progress
Boxill, J. Front Porch Ethics, manuscript on ethics in sports.
Boxill, J. "True Sport Report," US Anti-Doping Agency Education Outreach Program.
Boxill, J. "Review of: The Game of Life, by James Shulman and William Bowen, and Reclaiming the Game, by William Bower and Sarah Levin," Ethics
Honors and awards
Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society, Inductee, 2009.
Mary Turner Lane Award, presented by the Association of Women Faculty and Professionals, 2007
Women's Advocacy Award, presented by the Carolina Women's Center, 2005.
President, International Association of the Philosophy of Sport, Elected office, 2002–2005.
Excellence in Advising Award, University of North Carolina, 2003.
Parr Ethics Fellow, Ethics Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Fall 2002
Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of North Carolina, Spring 1998
James M. Johnston Scholars Undergraduate Honors Course Development Grant, UNC to lead an Honors Seminar on History and Ethics in American Sports, for Fall 1998
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Summer 1998
Award of Excellence, presented by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health for outstanding achievement and commitment to women's sports in North Carolina, 1994.
UNC Learning Disabilities Services Access Award for supporting and encouraging the potential of LD students at UNC-CH, 1995
Phi Sigma Tau, International Honor Society for Philosophy
