Quill Kukla's research interests include ethics (including sexual ethics, disability ethics, health ethics, and the ethics of communication), social epistemology (including the epistemology and methodology of medical research and of geography and cartography), philosophy of science, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, philosophy of place and urban theory, and aesthetics. Much of their research bridges ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. They received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and their Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. They also received an MA in Geography from CUNY in 2019. From 2003-2005, they were a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. They received their Sommelier certification from Algonquin College in 2007. They are the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal .