BRADY SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE

Samuel Fleischacker

Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2008-2009

Samuel Fleischacker studied at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989.  He works in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Among the issues that have particularly interested him are the moral status of culture, the nature and history of liberalism, and the relationship between moral and other values (aesthetic values, religious values, political values).  Professor Fleischacker has been a Fellow of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and The Institute for the Humanities at UIC.  He taught previously at Williams College.

Sondra Wheeler

Visiting Research Professor, 2009-2010

Sondra Wheeler completed her undergraduate education at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and her seminar and doctoral work at Yale University. She taught moral theology at Dusquesne University in Pittsburgh before going to Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC, where she is the Martha Ashby Carr Professor of Christian Ethics. Her particular interests are in biblical ethics, the historical roots of moral theology and the intersection of bioethics and the commitments of communities of faith. She has written a number of books and articles in these and other areas, including What We Were Made For (2007) and has been working on a book provisionally titled, Children of Our Own: Creation and the Limits of Parental Power.

Andrea Westlund

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2012-2013

Andrea Westlund holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Women's Studies at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has been teaching ethics, social and political philosophy, and feminist theory since 2003. Her work focuses on the concepts of autonomy, authority, and joint deliberation, and she is particularly interested in the ethics of friendship and love. She also has a strong interest in moral emotions about wrongdoing, such as anger, compassion, and forgiveness. Professor Westlund earned her B.A. in philosophy and economics from the University of Winnipeg in 1994. She went on to earn her M.A. in philosophy from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) in 1995, and her PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 2001. She taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 2001-2003, before relocating to Milwaukee, and has held research fellowships at the UW-Milwaukee Center for 21st Studies and the UW-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities.

Robert Audi

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2009-2010

Robert Audi earned his BA from Colgate University and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Michigan. He taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln before moving to the University of Notre Dame. He has served as General Editor of the First Edition (1995) and Second Edition (1999) of the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. He has also served as editor for the Journal of Philosophical Research. Audi's work has focused on epistemology, ethics - especially on ethical institutionalism, and the theory of action. He is Professor of Philosophy and the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at Notre Dame.

Paul Lauritzen

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2010-2011

Paul Lauritzen has served as Director of the Program in Applied Ethics at John Carroll University for the past thirteen years. His research interests include bioethics, human rights, Catholic moral theology, and the role of appeals to experience in moral argument. He is the author or editor of four books, including Pursing Parenthood: Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction; Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research; The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror. This book examines the debates among various professional groups about the proper role professionals should play in the war on terror. Lauritzen was co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics. He writes regularly for the national Catholic magazine, Commonweal, where he also blogs and produces occasional podcasts.

Erna Smith

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2011-2012

Erna Smith teaches journalism history, ethnic diversity and U.S. journalism, and magazine writing. She specializes in news media and public affairs in South Africa, as well as content analysis and diversity issues in news media and coverage. Ms. Smith has developed curriculum and training programs for student and working journalists, and researches, reports, writes and edits public affairs for local, state, national and international publications. Ms. Smith earned a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, and a doctoral equivalency at San Francisco State University in 1990. She is a former instructor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and in 1992 was a research fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. Ms. Smith taught at the University of Southern California's Journalism program from 1998-2000, and taught at the Danish School of Journalism in 2003. Smith chaired the journalism department at San Francisco State University and was senior director of its Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. She has been a professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism since 2008. She directs the college's graduate internship program in Cape Town, South Africa.

Steven Kelts

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2013-2014

Professor Kelts comes to Northwestern from The George Washington University. For ten years, he has run GW's Politics & Values program, an intensive living and learning community aimed at the University's most talented and politically-engaged freshmen. He has also been the faculty advisor for numerous Alternative Breaks, including trips to New Orleans to help with Hurricane Katrina recovery, and international trips to Ecuador and Nicaragua. He spent the past six years as Faculty in Residence, participating in the intellectual life of GW residence halls. His work focuses on the ideological roots of the American Constitution, in particular the divergent economic ideologies of the American Founders. This year, he will complete a book about James Madison and the Virginia Plan, arguing that Madison designed the institutions in that plan to generate specific economic outcomes. Far from the usual picture of Madison as protector of the elite, this book argues that he was motivated by a vision of agrarian fairness, aiming at a widespread distribution of land among American citizens. Professor Kelts received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2002.

David Killoren

Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor, 2015-2016

Professor David Killoren was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Before coming to Northwestern, he spent six sunny semesters in Myrtle Beach,South Carolina, where he was a fellow in the Jackson Family Center for Ethics & Values at Coastal Carolina University. All of his work is in the field of ethics. In metaethics, he is particularly interested in epistemological and metaphysical problems for moral realism. In ethical theory, he is worried about the possibility and actuality of irresolvable moral dilemmas. In practical and applied ethics, he works in animal ethics, political ethics, and the ethics of charitable giving.

Helga Varden

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2014-2015

Professor Helga Varden received her education in Norway, England, and Canada. Since obtaining her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2006, she has been at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she holds appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Gender and Women's Studies. In addition, she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the European Academy of Legal Theory (Belgium) as well as a visiting fellow at the University of St. Andrews. She has received several prizes for her teaching and her research as well as fellowships supporting her research in, primarily, legal-political philosophy.

Jerry Dworkin

Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2016-2017

Professor Gerald Dworkin received a BS in Mathematics from the City College of New York, an MA from the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California at Davis. He works in moral, political and legal philosophy. Some of his major concerns are the nature and value of autonomy, the principles that govern what the state may make criminal, when paternalistic restrictions are permissible, and medically-assisted dying. He has served as editor of the journal Ethics. He has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, and Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University, the Hastings Center, the Bellagio Study Center, and the Center for Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.

Anne Eaton

A.W. Eaton is an Associate Professor. She received her PhD from The University of Chicago in both philosophy and art history in 2003. She works on topics in feminism, aesthetics and philosophy of art, value theory, and Italian Renaissance painting. Her special interests include the epistemological and ontological status of aesthetic value, the relationship between ethical and artistic value, feminist critiques of pornography, representations of rape in the European artistic tradition, and artifact teleology (for more details and publications, see her website). Professor Eaton was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton's Center for Human Values in 2005-6. She is the editor of the Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art section of Philosophy Compass.

James Farr

Professor James Farr, Brady Faculty Fellow 2017 - 2019 James Farr joined the political science department in 2007 and served as Chair from 2008 to 2013. He is currently the Director of the Chicago Field Studies Program, an internship-and-seminar experience for undergraduates investigating the modern workplace and civic engagement. Farr also teaches political theory and the history of early modern and contemporary political thought, as well as the history and philosophy of social science. He has published some sixty-five articles or chapters on Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Lieber, Dewey, Lasswell and Popper, as well as on conceptual change and on social capital. He is the coeditor of six books, including The General Will: The History of a Concept (Cambridge, 2015) and The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto (Cambridge, 2015). He is currently completing a series of essays on John Locke and the new world and another series on the history of American political science, emphasizing method, civic education, and the state.