BRADY SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE

Mark Alznauer

Mark Alznauer specializes in nineteenth century philosophy, especially the work of German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel.  His interests include the history of metaphysics, practical philosophy, social theory, and aesthetics.  He is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility (Cambridge) and has recently finished a second project on Hegel’s Encyclopedia system entitled Hegel’s Sole Idea which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2026.  He has a B.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis) and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (2008).  He is currently the President of the Hegel Society of America (2024-26).

Kyla Ebels-Duggan

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.

Adam Goodman

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.

Vivasvan Soni

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.