Dr. Ball-Blakely joined UTEP from the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship. His research background is in immigration justice, particularly as it intersects with global justice, economic justice, and social equality. His work focuses on how high-income countries that exercise discretionary control over immigration facilitate a variety of domestic and global injustices including exploitation, climate change, and status harms. Dr. Ball-Blakely earned a doctoral degree and a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Washington (UW). He is an active member of prestigious organizations such as the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and the North American Society for Social Philosophy. He has served on the executive committee for the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (SPCW) and has held the role of Co-Moderator for the SPCW Pacific division. His most recent publications have been featured in the Journal of Social Philosophy, Essays in Philosophy, and Philosophy in the Contemporary World. Dr. Ball-Blakely's dedication and excellence in teaching have been recognized through several awards. He is the 2021 recipient of the UW Graduate Teaching Award, the Joff Hanauer Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowship (2020-2021), the University of Tennessee Graduate Teaching Award (2018), and the 2018 Prados Summer Dissertation Award. Beyond academia, Dr. Ball-Blakely enjoys biking, live music, music festivals, basketball (pick-up games and fantasy), and D&D (dungeons and dragons). He and his partner, Christine, have two "children," Dunkel (dachshund) and Tolstoy (cat).

• Ph D in Philosophy, University of Washington (2022)

• Non-Citizen Workers as Invisible Laboring Machines ENA Institute for Alternative Policies (2023), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• Climate Change and Green Borders: Why Closure Won't Save the Planet Philosophy in the Contemporary World 28 2 (2023), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• The Borders of Agency, Identity, and Control Radical Philosophy Review 26 1 (2023), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.

• Book Symposium on Desiree Lim’s Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy (2025), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• The Brain Drain, Structural Injustice, and the Right to Restrict Immigration (2024), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• To be determined (Author-meets-critic session on Desiree Lim's book 'Immigration and Social Equality' (2024), Volume Portland, Oregon, Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• The Ethics of Immigration Discrimination (2024), Michael T. Ball-Blakely.
• Border Control, Migration Pathways, and Social Inequality (2024), Volume New York, Michael T. Ball-Blakely.

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