Eric Beerbohm, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowship program, has been awarded a full professorship and tenure in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He will continue to serve as Director of the Center's Graduate Fellowship program. The Center congratulates Professor Beerbohm on his well-deserved honor. 

Professor Beerbohm's philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of distributive justice, and the philosophy of social science. His current book project, If Elected: The Ethics of Lawmaking and Campaigning, develops a theory for lawmakers and candidates operating within a malfunctioning legislative system. 

A Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, and Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Beerbohm received his PhD from Princeton University in 2008, B.Phil in Philosophy from Oxford University, and BA in Political Science and the Program in Ethics and Society from Stanford University. He is a recipient of the 2012 Roslyn Abramson Award, Harvard's highest award for teaching given annually to two faculty in Arts and Sciences for "excellence and sensitivity in undergraduate teaching." He is Founding Director of the Undergraduate Fellowship Program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.