Director of Brady Scholars Program; Weinberg College, Philosophy
Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She has written on love, political liberalism, Kant’s moral and political philosophy and his philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. She is currently working on two book projects, the first concerning valuing attitudes and the second on the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch.
Center for Leadership Director
Adam Goodman directs Northwestern University’s Center for Leadership, which offers academic and applied leadership development programs for undergraduate students, Ph.D. students and high potential staff. He’s a faculty member and teaches leadership courses in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and also teaches leadership coaching in the Kellogg School of Management and teamwork and decision making in the School of Communication. Goodman is founder of Catapult, a spin-off from his research building a data intensive enterprise-wide web portal for leadership, coaching and teamwork assessment. In addition to Catapult, his current projects include the development of 6 Leadership Questions® (an assessment and learning tool) and training programs for leadership coaching. An active consultant today and for over 25 years, he has advised over 100 CEOs, senior officers, executive teams and boards of directors and given hundreds of invited speeches and workshops in the United States and around the world. Goodman earned a Masters Degree in management and a Ph.D. in leadership from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, where he was a Presidential Fellow.
Cristina Lafont is the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy.
Her current research focuses on normative questions in political philosophy concerning democracy and citizen participation, global governance, human rights, religion and politics. She is the director of the Program in Critical Theory and co-director of the Research Group on Global Capitalism and Law funded by a “Big Ideas” grant of the Buffett Institute at Northwestern University. She is the recipient (with Alex Guerrero) of the 2022 Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution.
Weinberg College, Political Science
S. Sara Monoson is the author of Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy which was awarded a Foundations Book Prize by the American Political Science Association, as well as numerous articles on Greek political theory in historical context and classical receptions in the US, especially the history of adaptations of Greek sources and ideas in American political discourse (e.g., on abolition, free speech, the cold war, civil rights). Her current research includes studies of Socrates’ military service in light of contemporary understandings of war trauma and PTSD and a book in progress, Socrates in the Vernacular, on the uses of the story of Socrates n 20th and 21st century popular media. She also directs the collaborative "Classicizing Chicago Project: a local history of classical antiquity," (http://classicizingchicago.northwestern.edu) and is a founding director of the Research Workshop in Classical Receptions at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Weinberg College, Associate Professor of English
Vivasvan Soni is Associate Professor of English, and he studies and teaches eighteenth-century British literature, as well as critical and literary theory. Soni's areas of interest include the rise of the novel, moral and political theory, narratology, theories of tragedy, utopian writing, and theories of modernity. Soni has also taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and at Yale University where he held a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2002). He was the recipient of an American Philosophical Society Fellowship for 2010-11 and an Andrew W. Mellon/NEH Fellowship at the Newberry in 2014-15 to work on The Crisis of Judgment.
