2019-2020

Eric Beerbohm

Eric Beerbohm

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

I. Glenn Cohen

I. Glenn Cohen

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics, Harvard Law School

I. Glenn Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, as well as...

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Archon Fung

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

Nien-hê Hsieh

Nien-hê Hsieh

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...

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Meira Levinson

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

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Mathias Risse

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

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Gina Schouten

Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

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). 

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