Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics Director, Fellows-in-Residence and Undergraduate Fellowship Programs Professor of Government, Harvard University
Eric Beerbohm is Professor of Government and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He serves as Faculty Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Faculty Dean at Quincy House, and Senior Adviser on Civil Discourse in the Faculty of Arts and Science. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, political ethics, and the philosophy of social science. Recent work includes Civic Education in Polarized Times (with Elizabeth Beaumont), Reconciliation and Repair (with Melissa Schwartzberg), and Policing (forthcoming with Ekow Yankah), all part of NOMOS, the annual volume of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He is working on two book projects. The first considers how we are ruled by rules of order — from Robert's Rules to the Chatham House Rule — which structure and sometimes subvert decision-making at every level of governance. The second manuscript, Gaslighting Citizens (with Ryan Davis), examines how politicians can target our evidence about our evidence — creating alternative realities — and argues that this form of manipulation raises distinctively democratic worries.... Read more about Eric Beerbohm
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Selim Berker is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His primary research interests are in ethics and epistemology, which he sees as two aspects of the same field—ethics being the study of what, if anything, we ought to do, and epistemology being the study of what, if anything, we ought to believe.... Read more about Selim Berker
Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government Director Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
Professor Fung is Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation, deliberation, and transparency.... Read more about Archon Fung
Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Co-Director of the JHD Impact Initiative Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow in the General Management Unit
Nien-hê Hsieh is Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research concerns ethical issues in business and the...
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
David Jones completed his A.B. at Harvard College in 1993 (History and Science), and then pursued a Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University and an M.D. at Harvard Medical School, receiving both in 2001. After an internship in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, he trained as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, and then worked for two years as a staff psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Cambridge Hospital. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2005 as an Assistant Professor of the History and Culture of Science and Technology.... Read more about David S. Jones
Faculty Director, DKP Design Studio Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
Meira Levinson is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at Harvard Graduate School, co-director of the Graduate Fellowship Program at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and Director of the Design Studio. Levinson is a normative political philosopher who works at the intersection of civic education, youth empowerment, racial justice, and educational ethics.... Read more about Meira Levinson
Co-director, Graduate Fellowship Program Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy, Harvard Kennedy School
Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. His work primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade and immigration to climate change, obligations to future generations and the future of technology, especially also the impact of artificial intelligence on a range of normative issues.... Read more about Mathias Risse
Gina Schouten received her PhD in 2013 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and prior to joining Harvard as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2016, occupied the same position for three years at Illinois State University. Her research interests include gender justice, educational justice, and political legitimacy. She has recently been working on projects concerning the legitimacy of political interventions to alter the gendered division of labor, in which she argues that progressive gender egalitarian political interventions can constitute legitimate exercises of political power. That work is developed in her book Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor, (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Alison Simmons received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. The bulk of her teaching is in early modern philosophy, natural philosophy...
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Lucas Stanczyk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He works on topics at the intersection of political philosophy and political economy.... Read more about Lucas Stanczyk
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Co-Director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
Brandon M. Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.... Read more about Brandon Terry
