Princeton University Center for Human Values Annual Review 2023–24

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James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics

in Ethics and Public Affairs

Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars

Political Philosophy Colloquium

History of Political Thought Project

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

Program in Law and Normative Thinking

Future Values Initiative

Academic Freedom Initiative

UCHV Collaborative Projects

Co-sponsored Series, Events, and Conferences

UCHV

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows

UCHV Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Morality

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Values

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ethics and Climate Change

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Philosophy and Religion

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Politics

Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellows

2023

Melissa Lane, director of UCHV, gives opening remarks at the Welcome Dinner in September

Letter from the Director

It is sobering to think that my two terms as director of UCHV have spanned from 2016 to 2024, encompassing tremendous political turmoil and division, national moral awakenings and terrible backslidings, a global pandemic, and multiple wars and atrocities. Forgive me for focusing this letter simply on the last year and, to some extent, the last eight years within UCHV.

To begin with some major changes in Wooten Hall: By the time you read this, Alan Patten will have succeeded me as director, and I will have moved my office back to the Department of Politics, where I will resume the role of full-time faculty, albeit on a year’s leave in the U.K. during the 2024-25 academic year. I join the whole UCHV community in welcoming Alan to this role and look forward to the flourishing of the Center under his skilled and dedicated leadership.

At the same time, we have lost a spectacularly effective assistant director of the Center. In late June, Regin Davis moved to a new role at the University as senior associate director of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Having joined the Center in September 2018 (returning to Princeton, where she had graduated with the great class of 2004), Regin brought a combination of humanity, precision, strategic insight, and meticulous attention to detail to help take UCHV to new heights. I thank Regin for the joy of working together while welcoming the new assistant director, who should be chosen and in post by the time this is published. And I am, as ever, grateful to the other members of the administrative staff team, whose dedication makes everything in the Center possible:

Julie Clack (who rejoined us this year), Dawn Disette, Kim Girman, Tammy Hojeibane, Kim Murray, Andrew Perhac, and Jane Peters.

For this academic year, we adopted a theme of “Reckoning with Race,” around which many of our visiting fellows, faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and others converged, and which led to co-sponsorship of a number of events with the Department of African American Studies. Among these were two trenchant theme workshops that brought a number of important scholars to campus: “Race and the Public Sphere,” coconvened by Laurance S. Rockefeller (LSR) visiting fellows Shen-yi Liao and Shatema Threadcraft, and “Race and the Law,” co-convened by LSR visiting fellows Daniel Fryer and Shaun OsseiOwusu. Shatema is also convening a Women of Color Feminist Political Theory Summer School at UCHV in July 2024, focused on the theme “Black Feminism: With, Without and Beyond Consent,” as a capstone to the thematic activities this year. I thank all of these fellows, along with all the other colleagues in UCHV and the wider University, who contributed to the exploration of the theme this year.

Also launched were new initiatives on Academic Freedom, directed by Jan-Werner Müller, and Future Values, directed by Catherine CluneTaylor and Molly Crockett (the latter expanding traditional approaches to normative inquiry and applied ethics of science and technology).

A further area of growth is the launch of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking (PLANT), directed by Kim Lane Scheppele and administered by Kim Murray (the two Kims

forming a dynamic duo, often with support from Kim Girman as well). This is part of a new post-Law and Public Affairs equilibrium under the overall umbrella of Law@Princeton, which also covers the School of Public and International Affairs’ new program in law. Several research strands converged this year around PLANT, including a critical mass of scholars with expertise, often painfully gained, in how different countries (among them Hungary, Israel, India, Poland, and Russia) are contending with or threatened by democratic backsliding or authoritarian takeovers, and how constitutional thinking can contend with such predicaments.

Among the many events that UCHV hosted or co-sponsored this year, it was a special privilege to co-sponsor “Harmania,” a conference in memory of Princeton philosopher Gilbert Harman, the father of faculty member Elizabeth Harman and longtime colleague of so many connected to UCHV and the Department of Philosophy. It was also especially meaningful for me to hear Adam Tooze give his Tanner Lectures, as he and I collaborated as colleagues at the University of Cambridge in initiatives that introduced us both to thinking through the environmental dimension of the 20th-century interplay of economic growth and political power on which his lectures focused. We were also honored to host a conference in honor of the political theorist Richard Tuck, a mentor and graduate adviser to Princeton faculty Greg Conti and Anna Stilz, as well as a former colleague

of mine at Cambridge and of Pratap Bhanu Mehta at Harvard University. Tammy Hojeibane took the lead in organizing these events, coping magnificently with this unusually heavy workload.

Looking back at the year, it is shadowed by departures at its end. Peter Singer’s transition to emeritus status was marked by a farewell conference (also organized beautifully by the UCHV staff, with Tammy again in the lead), which drew in NGO leaders and activists who had been inspired by his work as well as academic colleagues from around the world in a wide range of disciplines. Peter also received the 2024 Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton, recognizing his embodiment of searching for active dialogue with those whose views are diametrically opposed to his own. In nominating Peter for this award, I quoted a student evaluating Peter’s legendary course “Practical Ethics” by saying that, “Singer showed me that it’s possible to hold a strong view and have mutual respect with those whose views differ”: an especially important pedagogical contribution during a year of heightened divisions on campus and worldwide. Among Peter’s many other contributions to UCHV, I would single out his mentorship of undergraduate students in the Human Values Forum (HVF), which he attended week in and week out as a faculty adviser for over 20 years. As former HVF student president Ethan Magistro ’24 has written: “[While] Singer’s impact on the world is undeniable … it is his

warmth during our everyday interactions that makes him so deserving of one of Princeton’s highest honours,” and that has so greatly enriched the UCHV community as a whole.

A further UCHV faculty departure that will be long felt as a great loss is due to Anna Stilz’s decision to accept an offer from the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Political Science, alongside her spouse, Hillel David Soifer. I said at the farewell dinner that while I have been the head of UCHV for the last eight years, I know that I am not alone in feeling that Annie has been its heart. She has been likewise central to our collective mind, bringing her incisive analysis and good judgment to bear in ways we have all relied on. Annie was the director of the Values and Public Life Program (VPL) for six transformative years, during which she overhauled the Senior Thesis Workshops, built research field trips around VPL seminars, and, as noted in a previous annual report, in the words of Diana Sandoval Simán ’20, “inspired us to be more curious and open-minded as a community.” She also co-convened a collaboration in learning

and service for undergraduates at Princeton and in several universities in Kentucky (where she grew up and many in her family live), one element in her receipt of the Pace Center’s Community Engagement Award in 2019, along with many other contributions. Annie’s drive in research, teaching, and service is to overcome entrenched inequalities of power and identity while delineating the terms on which belonging and citizenship can be more justly allocated. We wish her the best in bringing that drive to bear in her future at Berkeley, and we also thank her for everything that she has contributed at Princeton.

Much more has happened than can be mentioned in this letter or even in this report as a whole. I would like to close by saying a special word of thanks to everyone connected to the Center for your contributions and efforts during these last eight years. One lesson of my study of rule and office in ancient Greek thought is that the roles that comprise the “taxis,” or structure of office, can and will be subverted unless the people who take them on actually care about its purpose, or “telos.” In other words, it is the people who matter most. Thank you all so much, as I also thank President Christopher L. Eisgruber for having entrusted me with the role of director of this community that we all cherish.

Melissa Lane Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Faculty Accomplishments

Edward Baring

Associate Professor of History and Human Values

Edward Baring co-edited “Vulgar/Marxism” for the journal Rethinking Marxism. He also published “Who Are You Calling Vulgar? Lukács, Kautsky, and the Beginnings of ‘Western Marxism’” in Rethinking Marxism and “Marxism of, by, and for the People: Karl Korsch and the Problem of Worker Education” in Modern Intellectual History.

Andrew Chignell

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values

Andrew Chignell is serving as Tercentennial Chair of the North American Kant Society in 2024, arranging events in Berlin; Rome; Washington, D.C.; Seoul, South Korea; and Bonn, Germany, related to the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth. He is also co-directing a series of online international panels under the banner of the Virtual Kant Congress. Chignell published research in various specialty and generalist journals and anthologies and updated (with the help of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning) his massive open online course “Food Ethics,” which went live on Coursera in the spring of 2024. He gave various talks and presentations in the U.S., Germany, Canada, and the U.K. With Lara Buchak, Chignell inaugurated a new project called Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments in Society (PRÉCIS), which is part of the ongoing UCHV-sponsored Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion but aims to focus more on undergraduates and the public.

Molly Crockett

Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values

Molly Crockett and Catherine Clune-Taylor launched the Future Values Initiative at UCHV. Crockett was awarded grants from Princeton’s Precision Health initiative and the 250th Anniversary Curricular Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education and served on the board of reviewing editors for the journal Science. Crockett delivered keynote addresses at the Varela Symposium and the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute; gave seminars at Yale University, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and Princeton University; and organized the “Prefiguring Peer Review: Workshop & Dialogue,” the “Workshop on Narrative Possibilities,” and the “Science and Social Justice Salon.” Crockett published papers in Nature, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Reviews Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Synthese.

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Early-Career Research

In April and May 2024, Elizabeth Harman gave the Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. The lecture series was titled “Love and Abortion,” with lectures on “Love as the Reason We Need Abortion,” “Loving Someone Whose Death Wouldn’t Matter,” and “When Does Love Make a Baby?” The lectures will become a book to be published by Oxford University Press. Previous Uehiro lecturers include UCHV faculty members Philip Pettit and Peter Singer.

Erika Kiss

Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, European Cultural Studies, and Human Values

The Angelus Novus Project, a collaboration between UCHV’s Research Film Studio and Princeton’s Form Finding Lab, won the European Cultural Centre’s University Project Award at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Erika Kiss and the Research Film Studio’s undergraduate fellows are presenting their work at the 2024 Venice Biennale of Art from April 18 to Nov. 24, 2024. Kiss ran the second intensive film school during the University’s Wintersession with 35 in-person and 48 online students.

Melissa Lane

Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Melissa Lane delivered the inaugural series of lectures as the 50th Professor of Rhetoric (2023 to 2026) at Gresham College, London, an institution endowed in 1597 to offer free public lectures. She also gave the 2024 Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Lecture at the University of Hull and co-convened the 2024 American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy annual conference (on climate change). Lane published symposia and participated in multiple book launches, workshops, and podcasts about her 2023 monograph “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.” She also published two national op-eds, one in the Los Angeles Times (with Jane Manners) and another in U.S. News & World Report.

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Lectures on Human Values Committee; Acting Director, Values and Public Life Program

Stephen Macedo’s new book, “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us,” provides the first comprehensive political assessment of how our institutions fared under COVID-19. With co-author Frances Lee, Macedo argues that too many educated elites failed to live up to their deepest values: toleration and open-mindedness, a willingness to entertain doubts and uncertainties, and a respectful honesty toward the public. Lee and Macedo ask: Why did we do it, and how can we do better? The book went into production at Princeton University Press in June for publication in early 2025. Macedo gave talks on this topic at various venues at Princeton and elsewhere, including as a keynote lecturer at a conference in Santiago, Chile, at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, at Stanford University, and at the Hertog Foundation’s Political Studies Program in Washington, D.C. Macedo published and presented “Classical Liberalism, Democracy, and Morality” for the Ethikon series “Democracy and Morality,” and also “Refugeehood Reconsidered: The Central American Migration Crisis” in Problema. He edited and wrote the introduction to “Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy,” based on the Tanner Lectures of Richard Tuck, and chaired the November 2023 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered by Adam Tooze. He also served as acting director of UCHV’s undergraduate Values and Public Life Program.

Victoria McGeer

Senior Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values

Victoria McGeer spent her fall sabbatical leave on a fellowship at the Centres for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Berlin, working on a project on “Human Abilities,” funded jointly by Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin. She presented papers at the Centres and at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. McGeer spent the spring semester on leave at the Australian National University, where she co-organized a conference, “Thinking From Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge & Perspectives.” She presented papers at the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs (restorative justice lecture series), the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (invited panel on moral anger), and the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School (conference on trust and reputation, philosophical perspectives).

Philip Pettit

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values

During the fall semester, Philip Pettit was on leave from Princeton as a fellow at the Centres for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Berlin, working on a project on “Human Abilities,” sponsored by Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin. In September, he gave the inaugural Condorcet Lecture at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, which had been postponed from the previous year. He took part in a symposium on his 2023 book “The State” at the University of Hamburg, contributed to a printed symposium in the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, gave two presentations on the book at Harvard Law School and virtually at Sun Yat-sen University, and participated in a number of podcast interviews, including with Jeffrey Church for “The Political Theory Review” and with Yascha Mounk for “The Good Fight.” He also gave a number of seminar presentations and lectures throughout the year, including the keynote presentation at the 44th annual Veerstichting Symposium in Leiden, Netherlands. The journal Inquiry published a symposium on his 2018 book “The Birth of Ethics,” to which he also contributed.

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director, Program in Law and Normative Thinking

Kim Lane Scheppele received a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. A translation of a long law review article of hers was published as a small book in Hebrew and featured an afterword by Yonatan Levi; it became a bestseller in Israel with at least four printings. Scheppele’s presidential address to the Law & Society Association, “The Life and Death of Constitutions,” was also published in Law & Society Review.

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Peter Singer received Princeton University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. In May 2024, he participated with many notable speakers in his farewell conference sponsored by UCHV. “The Buddhist and the Ethicist,” a dialogue between Singer and venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, was published by Shambhala Publications in December 2023; “Consider the Turkey” will be published by Princeton University Press in October 2024. In April 2024, Singer spent two weeks as a visiting professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Singer’s Lanson Lecture on “Pandemic Ethics: Five Lessons” was published in a book of Lanson Lectures in Bioethics edited by Hon Lam Li. He co-authored articles with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek on “A Utilitarian Vision,” published in “What Is the Good Life?” and on “AI and Consumers’ Well-Being,” published in “The Cambridge Handbook of AI and Consumer Law.” Singer continued to work with Tse Yip Fai and other co-authors on developing several papers relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on animals. Singer has discussed new developments in the definition of death (in The Washington Post and with Charles Camosy in Project Syndicate). In other popular writings, he has written on the tragic spiral of violence between Israel and Hamas, whether student protests against Israel are evidence of widespread anti-Semitism, free speech, self-driving cars, the competitive edge of doing good, and whether religious freedom should trump animal welfare.

Peter Singer participates in a panel discussion in Richardson Auditorium at his farewell conference in May 2024

Deepening Understanding

Lou Chen ’19, program manager for Trenton Arts at Princeton, asks a question at a PLANT event.

Deepening Understanding

Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are presented annually at a select list of universities worldwide. UCHV serves as host to these lectures at Princeton, in which an eminent scholar from philosophy, religion, the humanities, sciences, creative arts, or learned professions, or a person eminent in political or social life, is invited to present a series of lectures reflecting upon scholarly and scientific learning relating to “the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition.”

November 9-10, 2023

Adam Tooze, the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and director of the European Institute at Columbia University, delivered the 2023 Tanner Lectures on “The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in a Multipolar Age.” Tooze’s first lecture, “Beyond the Unipolar Moment,” located the first phase of global climate politics in the unipolar moment of the 1990s. His second lecture, “Polycrisis,” addressed a series of questions about the 2015 synthesis of the Paris Climate Accords and Sustainable Development Goals targets.

Commentators:

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Cato Institute; University of Illinois, Chicago)

Peter A. Hall (Harvard University)

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Princeton University)

Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

Top: Adam Tooze delivers the 2023 Tanner Lectures

Left (from left to right): Peter A. Hall, Melissa Lane, Stephen Macedo, Christopher L. Eisgruber, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Adam Tooze

Seated: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Angus Deaton

James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics

The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life, broadly construed, at either a theoretical or a practical level, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.

October 26, 2023

Bonnie Honig , the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science and co-director of the Democracy Project at Brown University, delivered the fall 2023 James A. Moffett ’29 Lecture in Ethics. In her lecture, “Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Cavell, Arendt,” Honig aimed to answer the question of whether today’s “Oath Keepers” are descendants of Euripides’ Hippolytus, whose titular hero is himself an oath keeper extraordinaire. Her lecture explored classical and contemporary connections between oath keeping and masculinity, attending to the politics of sex/gender in connection with Hippolytus and Phaedra, and reading the Hippolytus as noir, alongside John Stahl’s film noir, “Leave Her to Heaven” (1945).

March 21, 2024

Paul C. Taylor, the Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, delivered the spring 2024 James A. Moffett ’29 Lecture in Ethics, “What’s Wrong With Anti-Racism?”, which explored and analyzed the expanding terrain of anti-anti-racism with an eye toward gaining a clearer understanding of the imputed wrongness of anti-racism.

Top: Bonnie Honig and Melissa Lane at the fall 2023 Moffett Lecture.

Bottom: Paul C. Taylor delivered the spring 2024 Moffett Lecture

Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

The Program in Ethics and Public Affairs (PEPA) advances the study of the moral purposes and foundations of institutions and practices, both domestic and international. PEPA seminars seek to bring the perspectives of moral and political philosophy to bear on significant issues in public affairs.

Fall 2023

SEPTEMBER 21

“What’s Wrong With Capitalism?”

Chiara Cordelli, University of Chicago

SEPTEMBER 28

“On the Confucian Communist Comeback in Contemporary China”

Daniel Bell, University of Hong Kong

NOVEMBER 9

“James Baldwin on Racial Progress Without Redemption”

Melvin Rogers, Brown University

Spring 2024

FEBRUARY 22

“A Politics of Both Trash and Treasure: Theorizing Abundance in a Rasquache Register”

Cristina Beltrán, New York University

APRIL 4

“Strawson’s Ethical Naturalism: A Defense”

Pamela Hieronymi, University of California, Los Angeles

APRIL 18

“Why Is Oppression Wrong?”

Serene Khader, City University of New York

APRIL 25

“The Varieties of Judicial Empathy: Adam Smith, Self-knowledge, and the Affective Economies of the Courtroom”

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars

DeCamp Seminars cover a wide variety of topics at the intersections of philosophy, ecology, biology, medicine, and public policy. The seminar series is made possible by a gift from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation.

Fall 2023

SEPTEMBER 6

“The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue”

Johann Frick , University of California, Berkeley

NOVEMBER 1

“How Women Are Depicted When Reproductive Practices Get to Court”

Sharon Bassan, Drexel University

DECEMBER 6

“Is It Morally Wrong for a Man to Claim to Be a Woman?”

Holly Lawford-Smith, University of Melbourne

Spring 2024

JANUARY 31

“Justice in Gestation and Moral Integrity: A Dilemma” Luara Ferracioli, University of Sydney

APRIL 17

“Intersectionality and the Language of Health Equity”

Keisha Ray, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics

Political Philosophy Colloquium

The Political Philosophy Colloquium is co-sponsored by the Department of Politics. It presents talks by scholars from Princeton and elsewhere on a broad range of topics related to the history of political thought, contemporary political philosophy, and related subjects.

Fall 2023

OCTOBER 5

“Earth as Home: Elements of a Planetary

Political Theology”

Miguel Vatter, Deakin University

OCTOBER 12

“Eliminating Tragic Conflict in Politics?

The Dworkin-Williams Debate”

Matthieu Queloz , University of Bern

Spring 2024

FEBRUARY 1

“Religious Liberty Before Liberalism: Tertullian and the Origins of North-African Christian

Political Philosophy”

Jed W. Atkins, Duke University

FEBRUARY 15

“‘On the Basis of Race’: Affirmative Action After the Harvard Case”

Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School

FEBRUARY 29

“Objectionable Obligations”

Sophia Moreau, University of Toronto

MARCH 28

“What Should the Welfare State Look Like?”

Bernardo Zacka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MAY 2

“‘Des moulins à paroles.’ The Struggle Over the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850-1851”

Lucia Rubinelli, Yale University

History of Political Thought Project

The History of Political Thought Project provides a venue for Princeton students and faculty from different disciplines to discuss both substantive and methodological issues in the history of political thought and seeks to build bridges to comparative politics, comparative constitutional law, and area studies.

Fall 2023

SEPTEMBER 27

“Law Under Lawlessness: Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and the Academy of German Law (1934-1942)”

Richard Wolin, City University of New York

SEPTEMBER 29-30

“Transitions to Democracy Revisited Workshop”

OCTOBER 2

“Academic Freedom: Normative, Legal, and Empirical Perspectives: A Discussion”

NOVEMBER 3

“New Approaches to Intermediary Bodies”

Spring 2024

FEBRUARY 24

“Conservative Critiques of Capitalism”

MARCH 8

“Contemporary Social Theory and Structural Transformation”

APRIL 11

“Can It Happen Here? Did It Happen Here? A Debate About Fascism”

APRIL 16

“Revisiting the History of Academic Freedom and Free Speech”

MAY 8

“Workshop on Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective”

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) is an initiative of the University Center in cooperation with Princeton’s Department of Philosophy and Department of Religion. 3PR brings together an interdisciplinary group of students and scholars who share a research interest in the philosophy of religion, broadly construed.

Recurring Events

3PR Working Group

Undergraduate reading group on Agnes Callard’s “Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming”

Undergraduate reading group on the ethics of breakups

Conferences and Workshops

DECEMBER 1-2, 2023

“Colloquium on Immanuel Kant’s ‘On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy (1791)’”

MAY 11-12, 2024

3PR Annual Conference on Philosophy, Religion, and Love

(Dedicated to Robert Merrihew Adams, 1937-2024)

to right: 3PR founders

Andrew Chignell (far left) and Lara Buchak (middle right) with postdocs Austen McDougal (middle left) and Z Quanbeck (far right).

Left

Program in Law and Normative Thinking

The Program in Law and Normative Thinking (PLANT) provides a home at Princeton for interdisciplinary research focused on law with an emphasis on the normative implications of legal rules, the actions of legal institutions, and the development of constitutionalism and the rule of law in the U.S. and worldwide. PLANT’s centerpiece is the Law Engaged Graduate Student (LEGS) seminar, which brings together law-related faculty and graduate students across campus. At the seminars, graduate students present academic papers, dissertation proposals, and dissertation chapters and receive feedback on the legal side of their work.

Events

APRIL 26-27, 2024

“The Past, Present, and Future of the Personnel of the State”

MAY 6, 2024

“Princeton Law-Engaged Faculty Discuss Their Research: The PLANT Retreat”

Law Engaged Graduate Student Seminars and Events

FEBRUARY 24

“Conservative Critiques of Capitalism”

Fall 2023

OCTOBER 9

“Empathizing Beyond Humanity: The 1970s Emergence of Personhood for Animals and the Environment”

Anin Luo, Graduate Student, History of Science

OCTOBER 23

“Institutional Misfiring: Rule-breaking and Withdrawal in Reentry”

Gillian Slee, Graduate Student, Sociology

OCTOBER 24

“How Soldiers Learn to Kill for the State”

Taylor Winfield, Postdoctoral Scholar, McGill University

OCTOBER 24

“The Shadow Docket: What’s Really Wrong With—and How to Fix—the Supreme Court”

Stephen Vladeck , University of Texas at Austin

Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at Texas Law, speaks at a PLANT event.

NOVEMBER 6

“Losing the Law: Unitary Executive Theory and the New Ethics of Lawyering”

Deborah Pearlstein, Director, Program in Law and Public Policy and Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Law and Public Affairs

NOVEMBER 7

“Making Autocracy Queer: A Dance in ‘Law’ Between LGBTQ Movements and Authoritarian States in China and Singapore”

Yun (Nancy) Tang, Graduate Student, Politics

NOVEMBER 13

“Enforcement of EU Law in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice”

John Morijn, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Fellow, Law and Public Policy

NOVEMBER 20

“Israel/Gaza, the History and the Present: Colonial, Liberal, Nationalist, or Authoritarian? Understanding the Israeli/Gazan War Against the Backdrop of Israel’s Political Crisis”

Yael Berda, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

With comments by:

David Abraham, University of Miami

Yair Mintzker, Princeton University

Moderator: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University

NOVEMBER 27

“From Parlor to Back Alley: Tracing the Migration of Prostitution in Response to Legal Changes”

Yutian An, Graduate Student, Politics

DECEMBER 4

“If the Subaltern Could Speak”

Rachel López , SPIA Fellow, Law and Public Policy

Spring 2024

FEBRUARY 5

“Political Threads in Legal Tapestry: A Computational Analysis of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, 1934–2022”

Reilly Steel, Graduate Student, Politics

FEBRUARY 19

“Legal Bootcamp”

Shaun Ossei-Owusu, UCHV Laurance S.

Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow

FEBRUARY 26

Participants in PLANT’s Civil Service Workshop

“Can Juries Legitimize the Authoritarian Judiciary? A Survey Experiment From China”

Yingjie Fan and Yutian An, Graduate Students, Politics

MARCH 18

“Patenting a Satellite: Epistemology, Time, & the Neoliberal Turn in the U.S. Patent System, 1959–1973”

Haris Durrani, Graduate Student, History

MARCH 25

“Law, Ideology, Minimalism, and the Public Impact of the Supreme Court: Evidence from Fulton v. City of Philadelphia”

Netta Barak-Corren, UCHV Fellow, Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

APRIL 1

“The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the Private Law of Public Relief”

Jane Manners, UCHV Fellow, Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

APRIL 29

“‘Steady Work’ for the ‘Steady-in-Work’: Industrial Layoffs, Unemployment Insurance, and the CIO Campaign for a Guaranteed Annual Wage, 1932-1958”

Maia Silber, Graduate Student, History

Future Values Initiative

Leveraging Princeton’s strengths in the sciences and the humanities, UCHV’s Future Values Initiative supports scholarship that expands traditional approaches to normative inquiry and applied ethics of science and technology, critically examining present injustices by imagining and co-creating radically different futures. The initiative envisions new modes of scholarship where scientists are given tools to understand how values shape the production of science and how its benefits and costs are socially distributed, and where humanists are partners in the innovation process rather than critics after the fact.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“Science and Social Justice Salon”

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“Science and Social Justice Salon: Sex and Gender Complexity”

Catherine Clune-Taylor, Princeton University

Agustín Fuentes, Princeton University

Mia Miyagi, Brown University

JUNE 7-8, 2024

“Workshop on Narrative Possibilities”

Academic Freedom Initiative

The Academic Freedom Initiative organizes events to probe the philosophical bases of academic freedom, study its history in different parts of the world, and hear from those who have been involved in concretely defending it.

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“Academic Freedom: Normative, Legal, and Empirical Perspectives: A Discussion”

MARCH 4, 2024

“Academic Freedom in American Popular Culture”

Film screening of “Inherit the Wind” (1960)

Conversation with Keith Whittington, Princeton University Co-sponsored with Film Forum

MARCH 19, 2024

Film screening of “Navalny” (2002)

Conversation with Christo Grozev, The Insider Co-sponsored with Film Forum

UCHV Collaborative Projects

In the 2023–24 academic year, UCHV fostered collaborations with these campus communities, expanding and deepening ties that extend beyond sponsorship of events.

The Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values and Policy (CFI) is an interdisciplinary research program at Princeton University, administered by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and cosponsored by HMEI and UCHV. The initiative explores normative and positive approaches to the future of humankind, especially as that future is affected by climate change. The initiative features a wide-ranging dialogue across disciplines and world regions, with considerable attention to ethics.

The Climate Mobilities Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars from a range of institutions who examine the ethics, justice, policies, and science of climate displacement, immobility, and migration.

Law@Princeton is a joint initiative of Princeton University, UCHV, and SPIA. Law@Princeton explores the role of law in constituting politics, society, the economy, and culture. Each year, Princeton welcomes a select group of residential fellows and occasional visitors drawn from the academy, legal practice, government, and policymaking institutions. They join a collection of professors on Princeton’s permanent faculty who draw upon diverse methodologies to investigate legal phenomena. By combining the multidisciplinary expertise of Princeton’s faculty with knowledge and perspectives provided by leading academic and practical experts on the law, Law@Princeton has created an exciting new forum for teaching and research about the legal technologies and institutions needed to address the complex problems of the 21st century.

Co-sponsored Series, Events, and Conferences

The organizing department is given in parentheses.

• “Abolition Geography Student Symposium” (African American Studies)

• Annual Meeting for the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music (Music)

• Contemporary Poetry Colloquium (English)

• “Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History” (Anthropology)

• Feminist Soapbox: A Reading and Conversation with Yara Rodrigues Fowler (English)

• Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D. ’61 and Martha A. Darling ’70 Lecture in Ethics and Policy in Bioengineering (Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute)

• INCH: International Network for the Comparative Humanities (English)

• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich-Princeton Summer Graduate Seminar (German)

• “Morality in Tech” (Center for Information Technology Policy)

• “Old Wars, New Stories: Ukraine in the Global World” (History)

• “Our AI Futures: Critical Humanistic Perspectives” (Anthropology)

• “Pluralism, Polarity, and Problems of International Authority” (Politics)

• “Political Epistemology and Oppression” (Philosophy)

• Princeton-Oxford Graduate Student Conference on Political Theology (Religion)

• “Queer Demography Summit” (Sociology)

• “Reasons to Believe: Enlightenment and the Sacred” (French and Italian)

• Renaissance Colloquium (English)

• “Spectral Cartographies: Haunting and the Ancient Mediterranean” (Classics)

• Victorian Colloquium (English)

• “Workshop on Narrative Possibilities” (Psychology)

• Athena in Action Conference (University of Notre Dame)

• Compass (Philosophy)

• Interdepartmental Program in Classical Philosophy (Philosophy)

• Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy (Philosophy)

• Social Criticism and Political Thought Speaker Series (Politics)

Top: Richard Tuck speaks on a panel at the Celebrating Richard Tuck conference

Bottom: Richard Tuck pictured with conference faculty organizers Greg Conti, Anna Stilz, Daniela Cammack, and David Singh Grewal

UCHV Special Events

Fall 2023

SEPTEMBER 22

2023 NOMOS Conference:

Climate Change

Organized by Chiara Cordelli, University of Chicago, and Melissa Lane (Editors)

SEPEMBER 29

Princeton Faculty Symposium on Altruism

Organized by Peter Singer and Elizabeth Harman

SEPTEMBER 30–

OCTOBER 1

“Harmania: A Conference in Honor of Gilbert Harman”

Organized by Elizabeth Harman

NOVEMBER 29

“Plato on the Spirit of the Law” Nina Valiquette Moreau, University of Chicago

DECEMBER 7

“Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics” Fabio Parasecoli, New York University Steinhardt

DECEMBER 14

LSR Theme Workshop: “Race in the Public Sphere”

Organized by Shen-yi Liao and Shatema Threadcraft, Laurance S. Rockefeller (LSR) Visiting Faculty Fellows

Spring 2024

FEBRUARY 2

“Mini APSA Session”

Presentations by Melissa Lane; Tejas Parasher, University of California, Los Angeles; and Jakob Huber, Free University of Berlin

APRIL 12-14

“Celebrating Richard Tuck Conference”

Organized by Anna Stilz and Greg Conti

MAY 7

LSR Theme Workshop: “Reckoning With Race in the Law”

Organized by Daniel Fryer and Shaun Ossei Owusu, LSR Visiting Faculty Fellows

MAY 13-14

“Peter Singer Farewell Conference”

Organized by Melissa Lane, Elizabeth Harman, Andrew Chignell, and Ian Peebles

Panelists at the LSR Theme Workshop: “Reckoning with Race in the Law”

Left to right

(top row): Daniel Fryer, Nia Johnson, Jennifer Lee, Shawn Ossei-Owusu; (bottom row): Nicole Langston, Hiba Hafiz, Atinuke Adediran

Teaching and Learning

Human Values Forum students at dinner with Bert Kerstetter ’66

Teaching and Learning

Values and Public Life Program

Guided by Stephen Macedo, the acting director of the Values and Public Life (VPL) Program, 13 seniors graduated with a certificate in VPL.

The Center admitted 20 rising juniors to the program, who joined 18 rising seniors pursuing the VPL minor. In addition to completing the program’s curricular requirements, VPL students enjoyed discussions over lunch with the program’s acting director and were invited to join UCHV’s intellectual community and attend special Center events and dinners.

Special events included a book talk with Evan Mandery (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) on “Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us” and a discussion with Political Philosophy Colloquium speaker Benjamin Eidelson (Harvard Law School), “‘On the Basis of Race’: Affirmative Action After the Harvard Case.”

VPL students participated in a mentorship program and were paired with UCHV’s Graduate Prize Fellows, who served as mentors to guide students toward their future academic and professional goals.

At VPL’s Annual Student Conference, seniors Rohit Narayanan (electrical and computer engineering) and Nicholas Seitz (School of Public and International Affairs) presented their thesis projects. VPL’s Class of 2024 attended Senior Thesis Workshops led by three of UCHV’s early-career scholars: Gabriel Mares, Arthur Obst, and Jiseob Yoon. They celebrated Class Day with family and the UCHV community, where the graduates’ activities and accomplishments were acknowledged.

Top: Mirabella Smith ’24 with thesis advisor Melissa Lane

Bottom: Nicholas Seitz ’24 presents his thesis at VPL’s Annual Student Conference

Courses and Seminars

Values and Public Life Seminars

“Being Human: A Political History”

HIS 427 / CHV 427

Edward Baring

“Expressive Rights and Wrongs: Speech, Offense, and Commemoration”

POL 477 / CHV 477 / JRN 477

Stephen Macedo

“Realizing Democracy”

CHV 479 / POL 497

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

“The Ethics of Love and Sex”

CHV 390 / PHI 390 / GSS 391

Elizabeth Harman

First-Year Seminars

“Tech/Ethics”

Steven Kelts

Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism”

Thomas P. Kelly

Paul L. Miller ’41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“History and Cinema: Fascism in Film”

Gaetana Marrone-Puglia

Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“Women in Literature: Outlaw(ed) Women in Fiction & Prose”

Ijeoma Odoh

Peter T. Joseph ’72 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“Saving Seeds”

Tessa Desmond

Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“The Global War on Civilians: Morality, Science, and Race in the Bombing of Cities in World War II”

Sheldon Garon

Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

“Imprisoned Minds: Religion and Philosophy From Jail”

Mark Edwards

University Center for Human Values

Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Courses

“Bio/Ethics: Ancient and Modern”

HUM 315 / CLA 315 / GHP 325 / CHV 325

Joseph Fins and Brooke Holmes

“Biomedical Ethics”

REL 303 / CHV 303

Timothy Jackson

“Christian Ethics and Modern Society”

REL 261 / CHV 261

Eric Gregory

“Citizenships Ancient and Modern”

CLA 310 / CHV 314 / AAS 311 / POL 310

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

“Comparative Constitutional Law”

SPI 421 / POL 479 / CHV 470

Wojciech Sadurski

“Dissertation Seminar” CHV 599

Elizabeth Harman

“Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio”

ECS 489 / CHV 489 / HUM 485 / ENV 489

Erika Kiss

“Ethics and Economics”

ECO 385 / CHV 345

Thomas C. Leonard

“Ethics and Public Policy”

SPI 370 / POL 308 / CHV 301

Stephen Macedo

“Ethics in Context: Uses and Abuses of Deception and Disclosure”

ANT 360 / CHV 360

Rena Lederman

“European Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century”

HIS 369 / CHV 369

Edward Baring

“Freedom and Responsibility”

PHI 383 / CHV 383

Gideon Rosen

“Global Political Thought”

POL 476 / CHV 476

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

“Greek Law and Legal Practice”

CLA 330 / CHV 330 / HLS 340

Marc Domingo Gygax

“Introduction to Moral Philosophy”

PHI 202 / CHV 202

Jacob Morris Nebel

“Kant: Ethics, Religion, Politics”

REL 402 / PHI 402 / CHV 407

Andrew Chignell

“Normative Ethics: Weighing Goods and Weighing Lives”

PHI 519 / CHV 519

Jacob Morris Nebel

“Practical Ethics”

CHV 310 / PHI 385

Peter Singer

“Philosophy of Mind”

PHI 315 / CHV 315 / CGS 315

Alex Kerr

“Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments”

PHI 211 / CHV 211 / REL 211

Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell

“Realizing Democracy”

CHV 479 / POL 497

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

“Systematic Ethics”

PHI 307 / CHV 311

Sarah McGrath and

Michael Smith

“The Hidden History of Hollywood—Research

Film Studio”

CHV 385 / AAS 385 /

VIS 385 / COM 308

Erika Kiss

“Topics in Neuroethics: Cognitive Enhancements”

CHV 323 / PHI 424

Ian Peebles

“Unlocking the Science of Human Nature”

PSY 333 / CHV 300

Molly Crockett

Film Forum

The Film Forum convenes at various campus theaters under the direction of Erika Kiss. The screened films are followed by comments from faculty and a discussion. The series, which is open to the public, is supported by a gift from Bert Kerstetter ’66.

Fall 2023

NOVEMBER 9

Film screening of “Blue Heart” (2021)

Attended by the film’s director Miguel Coyula

NOVEMBER 16

Film screening of “The Green Border” (2023)

Attended by the film’s director Agnieszka Holland

NOVEMBER 17

Conversation with Agnieszka Holland

Spring 2023

MARCH 4

“Academic Freedom in American Popular Culture”

Film screening of “Inherit the Wind” (1960)

Conversation with Keith Whittington, Princeton University

Co-sponsored with the Academic Freedom Initiative

MARCH 19

Film screening of “Navalny” (2002)

Conversation with Christo Grozev, The Insider

Co-sponsored with the Academic Freedom Initiative

Research Film Studio

Directed by Erika Kiss, the Research Film Studio offers Princeton students and faculty the opportunity to develop their research ideas through short films and other immersive and mixed-media publications. The Research Film Studio regularly invites award-winning film directors to campus to share about the art of filmmaking.

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“Balancing Act From the Cosmological, Architectonic, Moral, and Aesthetic Points of View,” a roundtable discussion on “Angelus Novus”

JANUARY 22-26, 2024

Film School

Instructors: Erika Kiss (Princeton University)

Lydia Cornett (filmmaker)

Farkas Fülöp (Glowing Bulbs, Inc.)

Szabolcs Tóth-Zs (BANDART productions)

APRIL 19, 2024

“ArtHouse Memes” exhibition opening at the 2024 Art Biennale in Venice, Italy

Opposite left: Research Film Studio installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Opposite right: Human Values Forum students pictured with HVF advisor Peter Singer

Kiss and the Research Film Studio’s undergraduate fellows are presenting their work, “ArtHouse Memes,” at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale from April 18 through Nov. 24, 2024. The exhibition, curated by Kiss, introduces a hidden tradition of AfroAmerican cinema via montage videos created by her students from the most memorable memes from multiple films and presents Kiss’ immersive cineplay, “The Prince of Watts—Slaughterhouse Hamlet.”

Human Values Forum

With support from Bert Kerstetter ’66, the Human Values Forum provides an opportunity for undergraduates, faculty members, graduate students, and visiting faculty to meet in an informal setting to discuss current and enduring questions concerning ethics and human values.

Fall 2023

SEPTEMBER 11

“Giving Meaning to Your Life”

Peter Singer, Princeton University

SEPTEMBER 18

“Weighing Technology Choices for Climate Mitigation: Now, Later, or Never, and Where?”

Emily Carter, Princeton University

SEPTEMBER 25

“Were Democracy and Justice Casualties of Covid?”

Stephen Macedo, Princeton University

OCTOBER 2

“The Trial of Vladimir Putin. Is It the End of the Age of Impunity?”

Deborah Amos, Princeton University

OCTOBER 9

“‘Racist,’ (Adj./Noun)”

Shen-yi Liao, Princeton University

OCTOBER 23

“Values and Ethics in the Formulation and Execution of National Security Policy”

Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University

OCTOBER 30

“Lived Experience, Theoretical Knowledge, and the Role of ‘Allies’ in Social Movements”

Lidal Dror, Princeton University

NOVEMBER 6

“When Learning Goes Wrong: Cicero, Seneca, and Augustine”

Zena Hitz , St. John’s College

NOVEMBER 13

“Why Nietzsche Rejects Genealogy”

Jason Maurice Yonover, Princeton University

NOVEMBER 20

“Teaching Like a Marxist”

Edward Baring, Princeton University

NOVEMBER 27

“Responsible AI in a Changing World”

Manail Anis Ahmed, Princeton University

DECEMBER 4

“Only Words?”

Holly Lawford-Smith, University of Melbourne

Spring 2024

JANUARY 29

“How Can We *Respectfully* Move Beyond Convenience Samples in the Behavioral Sciences?”

Casey Lew-Williams, Princeton University

FEBRUARY 5

“Why Do We Love and What Does Love Aim At?”

Austen McDougal, Princeton University

FEBRUARY 12

“Love and Abortion: Loving Someone Whose Death Wouldn’t Matter”

Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University

FEBRUARY 19

“Professional Responsibility and Ethics: Succeeding Without Selling Your Soul”

David W. Miller, Princeton University

FEBRUARY 26

“The Drivers of Academic Unfreedom in Russian Universities”

Evgeny Roshchin, Princeton University

MARCH 4

“Conquered Territories: A Historical Perspective”

David A. Bell, Princeton University

MARCH 18

“Taking Risks for Others”

Lara Buchak , Princeton University

MARCH 25

“Social Desirability Bias and Hawkish Attitudes Among U.S. Foreign Policy Elites”

Rory Truex , Princeton University

APRIL 1

“When Is It Okay to Not Feel Emotions?”

Z Quanbeck , Princeton University

APRIL 8

“Percy Bysshe Shelley and Atheism”

Susan Wolfson, Princeton University

APRIL 14

“The Democracy Effects of Legal Polarization”

Deborah Pearlstein, Princeton University

APRIL 22

“The Philosophy of Physics Meets Human Values”

Hans Halvorson, Princeton University

Student Prizes and Grants

Senior Thesis Prize

Each year, the Center awards prizes to senior theses that make an outstanding contribution to the study of human values. Nominations for the prize are made by departments across the University.

“‘Your Huddled Masses’: Barriers to Equal Access and a Fair Trial in the United States Legal System for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Litigants”

Aaron Brzezinski, Spanish & Portuguese

“Eternalism, Ethics, and the Spirit of Philosophical Inquiry”

Ethan Magistro, Philosophy

“Plea for Life: An Ethnography of Migrant Health and Militant Humanitarianism Under the Dublin III Regulation”

Kennedy Walls, Anthropology

Short Movie Prize

Sponsored by UCHV, this award is given to the undergraduate who produces the best short film.

In 2024, the Short Movie Prize was awarded to Michelle Tang ’26 for “David’s Doodles.”

Graduate Student Merit Awards

UCHV offers prizes to help attract graduate students to Princeton whose work explicitly focuses on ethics, political theory, and human values. In spring 2024, the following incoming students were awarded these grants:

Emilien Arnaud, History

Devon Arthur, English

Aidan Calvelli, Politics

Suna Cha, East Asian Studies

Lauren Chapman, English

Dmyitroy Ezrokhi, Classics

Wilson A. Fisher, Architecture

Fenian Kenney, French and Italian

Firdevs Idil Kurtulan, English

Hyun Hwa (Helen) Lee, Politics

Annie Li, Religion

Gracielle Li, Psychology

Wangechi Mwaura, English

James Packman, Psychology

Deborah Rabinovich, History

Christopher Rubin, Religion

Helen Ruger, Classics

Javier Ruiz , Architecture

Runqi Zhang, German

Political Philosophy Graduate Research and Travel Grants

UCHV and the Program in Political Philosophy offer political philosophy research and travel grants. The grants are supported by a fund established by Amy Gutmann, former provost of the University and founding director of UCHV. The following students received grants in the 2023-24 academic year:

Calvin Baker, Philosophy

Christopher Bottomley, Philosophy

Atticus Carnell, Politics

Claudia Cervantes Perez, Politics

Pietro Cibinel, Philosophy

Abdallah El Ayach, History

Chelsea Guo, Politics

Tristan Hughes, Politics

Sonny Kim, Politics

Daniel Klugman, Philosophy

Antonio Lessa Kerstenetzky, Philosophy

Sebastian Liu, Philosophy

Anin Luo, History of Science

Anastasiia Lystsova, History

Aaliyia Malik , Religion

João Marques Carvalho, Philosophy

Aemann McCornack , Politics

Lauren Miano, Philosophy

Gaby Nair, Politics

Yoav Schaefer, Religion

Margaret Shea, Philosophy

Lynnea Shuck , Politics

Maia Silber, History

Toha Toriq , Religion

Ophelia Vedder, Politics

Darius Weil, Politics

Jocelyn Wilson, Politics

Jiseob Yoon, Politics

Supporting Research

LSR Visiting Fellow Daniel Fryer at a Peter Singer Farewell Conference event.

Supporting Research

The University Center for Human Values seeks to advance original scholarship relating to human values in a number of ways, including sponsoring visiting faculty fellowships, visiting professorships for distinguished teaching, postdoctoral research appointments, and dissertationstage fellowships for outstanding Princeton graduate students. The research reports presented in this section illustrate the reach and quality of the work carried out under the Center’s auspices.

A main feature of the visiting fellows program is a regular lunch seminar at which the Center’s visitors and faculty members present their work to an audience of peers. The graduate fellows meet regularly during their own research seminars and for other professional development opportunities, which are also provided to UCHV’s postdoctoral research associates. As the research reports attest, the systematic criticism and discussion of work in progress are among the principal benefits of affiliation with the Center.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching

This professorship is part of the 250th Anniversary Visiting Professorships for Distinguished Teaching (VPDT) program. Each VPDT teaches an undergraduate course and engages in other activities aimed at improving teaching at Princeton.

Marion Fourcade (Spring 2024)

As a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, I had the great pleasure of teaching for Princeton’s sociology department—a wonderful intellectual home and a collegial community. The course, titled “Political Economy of the Digital Society,” focused on the social and economic consequences of the rise of big data and artificial intelligence.

Because it was an entirely new course preparation for me, it took quite a bit of my time, but I learned a lot, and so, I believe, did the students! Still, I managed to accomplish a lot more during my one semester at Princeton. Participating in the LSR seminar was a real treat that brought back fond memories of a time when philosophy played a bigger role in my life. Receiving generous comments from this group when it was my turn to present was especially generative. In addition to events at UCHV and the sociology department, I attended seminars and lectures at the Center for Information Technology Policy and the Institute for Advanced Study. My book, “The Ordinal Society,” was published in April, so I gave several talks in the Northeast (including one at Princeton). I made good progress on two new papers (“A Social Theory of Speculation” and “The Death Drive of Actuarialism”) and started data collection for a new research project on Sinophobia and the far right.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Spring 2024)

As an LSR Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, I taught two courses during the spring semester. The first was on “Global Political Thought in the Twentieth Century,” and the second was a UCHV seminar on “Realizing Democracy.” I was also fortunate enough to give guest lectures in four classes at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) taught by Kim Lane Scheppele, Razia Iqbal, Eduardo Bhatia, and Mihir Kshirsagar, respectively. “Global Political Thought” was also the theme of much of my research. I gave an LSR seminar on “Methodological Issues in the Study of Global Political Thought” and worked on two chapters toward a possible book on the subject. In addition, I coorganized, through the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), a “Rethinking World Orders Symposium” (with G. John Ikenberry and Matias Spektor). My other preoccupation was thinking about academic freedom and free speech more generally. This resulted in participation in a panel organized by Deborah Yashar, under the Global Existential Challenges series at PIIRS and a lecture at the Hauser Symposium NYU Law School (forthcoming as a paper) on “Free Speech: An Elegy.” I continued public writing with pieces in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and The Indian Express. As always, participation in the intense intellectual life of UCHV was a treat.

Wojciech Sadurski (Spring 2024)

The spring semester that I spent at Princeton was one of the most enjoyable and enlightening periods in my professional life. Surrounded by some outstanding colleagues, fellows, and students, I felt that this is the right place to be if you want to obtain inspiration of the highest quality for further work.

The Center, chaired brilliantly by Melissa Lane and run so efficiently by a professional and helpful team, especially Regin Davis, Dawn Disette, and Tammy Hojeibane, proved to be a wonderful place— which I am looking forward to revisiting in the spring of 2025!

I did some serious writing and research while at UCHV: I have completed an article for Comparative Constitutional Studies, which is a detailed response to four commentators on my recently published “Constitutional Public Reason” (Oxford University Press, 2023). I also completed an Englishlanguage draft of a book to be published in Italian by a leading academic publisher, Il Mulino, on “Populism versus Democracy.” The main work I wrote at Princeton was a paper I presented at an LSR workshop, with an extremely helpful comment by Jan-Werner Müller, “Judicial Review in the Era of Authoritarian Populists.” This paper, which, after the comments I received at a seminar, was further developed into a 15,000-word

article, will be submitted soon to an international legal journal. I have also begun research on “Getting Out of Populism”—an agenda for reforming the law of democracy after overcoming authoritarian populism. I intend to complete this project in the second iteration of my visit to Princeton.

Apart from all LSR workshops, I participated in Law Engaged Graduate Student (LEGS) seminars, convened so skillfully by Kim Lane Scheppele, along with a political philosophy series convened by Jan-Werner Müller, and in a number of other events. I used the midterm break to visit Poland and delivered several public lectures on post-populist transitions, which my old home country is happily (though not without difficulties) experiencing these days. These lectures related to the publication of a Polish translation of my book “A Pandemic of Populists” (originally, Cambridge University Press, 2022).

I was also happy to assist Kim Lane Scheppele by participating in the Fellows in Law and Normative Thinking Selection Committee, which she chaired. I think we made an excellent choice by selecting some outstanding U.S. and international scholars for the next academic year.

Finally, a word about my teaching: after all, my official title was Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching. I delivered a course on “Comparative Constitutional Law” (earlier taught by Kim Lane Scheppele), and it was an exciting opportunity to teach this course for the first time in my life to undergraduate students (so far, I have been teaching it at various law schools to postgraduates). I had a group of extremely talented and well-motivated students, and—judging by their post-course anonymous evaluations—I was not the only one to thoroughly enjoy it.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows

These fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in devoting a year at Princeton to writing about ethics and human values, discussing their work in a fellows’ seminar, and participating in seminar activities.

Daniel Fryer

With the generous support of UCHV, I was able to benefit from an intellectual community that allowed me to complete old projects and start new ones. I finished three essays that are part of a series of articles on reparative justice. One essay benefited from the gracious and insightful comments I received during the LSR seminar. The other two were improved by various discussions and exchanges with colleagues and friends in the UCHV community. In addition, I wrote a law review article about penal abolition from scratch. I presented this paper at the race theory reading group and received helpful comments from other LSR fellows, as well as faculty and graduate students from other units. I also attended the Faculty Diversity Salon events, gave guest lectures in undergraduate courses, and met with numerous graduate students in the politics, history, and philosophy departments. Beyond Princeton’s campus, the Center supported my research as I presented my work at philosophy conferences, law schools, and correctional centers across the country. I leave the Center grateful for the opportunity to try out new ideas, learn from a group of amazing scholars, and dive deep into my writing projects.

Zoe Jenkin

UCHV gave me the wonderful opportunity to spend the year working on my book, “The Epistemic Self,” which is an exploration of the rationality of unconscious reasoning. I wrote two papers that provide the foundation for book chapters: “Reasoning Without Control” and “The Psychological Markers of the Basing Relation,” the latter for Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind. I also worked on some adjacent projects, including a paper about the irrationality of fragmented cognition titled “Encapsulated Failures,” which is forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint, and a commentary on Elizabeth Spelke’s book “What Babies Know” titled “Learning in the Social Being System” (co-authored with Lori Markson), which was published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I was also able to share my work with many wonderful audiences, including at the LSR seminar, Princeton’s cognitive science department, the University of California, Santa Cruz’s philosophy department, the New England Workshop on Metaphysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s philosophy department, the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous series, Indiana University Bloomington’s cognitive science department, and the Rutgers-Bochum Conference. I am extremely grateful for the feedback I received at these venues and for the opportunity to learn from the brilliant and generous group of UCHV colleagues throughout the year.

Shen-yi (Sam) Liao

During my time at UCHV, I made progress on multiple projects and shared them with different audiences. My primary research project was on the dark side of the extended mind: the oppressive objects and spaces that extend, but also distort, our cognitive capacities. I was able to write about half of my book manuscript on this topic. I presented the first chapter through the LSR fellows seminar series to the UCHV community and received valuable feedback. My secondary research project was on conceptual inflation critiques, especially of the fraught word “racist.” My collaborator and I were able to complete a conceptual paper and an empirical paper on this topic and submitted them to journals. I presented our research to Princeton undergraduates through the Human Values Forum. In addition, I was also able to work on a few other papers. I participated in the race theory reading group and the bioethics seminars at UCHV.

I also participated in other activities on campus, such as the Princeton-Google workshop on generative AI and the “Political Epistemology and Oppression” workshop. I was also able to give talks at many different institutions thanks to UCHV’s support.

Tae-Yeoun Keum

UCHV has been an ideal setting to get deep thinking, reading, and writing done for my book, “The Symbolic Politics of Blumenberg, Habermas, and Schmitt.” In addition, I was able to finish a related paper this year on Hans Blumenberg’s and Jürgen Habermas’ respective theories of myth and a co-authored paper on the critique of myths.

I came to UCHV ready to immerse myself in the 20th-century milieu in which my book is set, but perhaps unsurprisingly—something in the air!—I also found myself renewing my love for Plato, the author who first drew me to my discipline. I finished a paper on what the Enlightenment reception of Plato can teach us about the dynamics of canonization.

This year also saw the fruition of a couple of projects I had been working on for some time: the publication of a special issue I co-edited on “Political Myth in the Twentieth Century,” and a critical symposium on my previous monograph, which was also one of eight books longlisted in the fall for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

I learned so much from the other fellows and the greater UCHV community at our regular seminars and beyond. Other highlights of my year included the “Mini APSA Session” at Princeton, the Political Philosophy Colloquium, the extraordinary ancient philosophy reading group, and the graduate political philosophy workshop. For all this and more, I’m so grateful to Melissa Lane, the UCHV staff, and everyone at Princeton who took the time to share coffees and meals with me.

Shaun Ossei-Owusu

This academic year, I gave several presentations focused on different projects. I presented the last chapter of my first manuscript, “The People’s Champ,” at faculty workshops at Yale University, Stanford University, New York University (NYU), and Texas law schools. I separately presented the penultimate chapter of this book at NYU. I also developed an article that focused on the relationship between loan repayment assistance programs and public interest lawyering, tentatively titled “Debt Relief and Public Interest Lawyering,” which I presented at Stanford University’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.

At Princeton, I was on a panel on the Supreme Court with Neal Katyal and Deborah Pearlstein. I also presented a version of a working paper titled “Leisure Justice.” Finally, I presented the first two chapters of my second manuscript, “Renegade at Law: How Our Legal Industry Creates, Justifies, and Compounds Inequality,” at Princeton and at the Penn Carey Law Ad Hoc Workshop.

My NYU law piece was cited in Rachel Harmon’s casebook “The Law of the Police,” and my Virginia Law Review piece, “Velvet Rope Discrimination,” was cited in William Singer’s property casebook.

Andrew Sepielli

I spent my LSR fellowship working on a project on the methodology of normative ethics and the bearing thereupon of the psychology and neuroscience of moral judgment. More specifically, the project focused on how it is best to conceptualize the world for the purposes of normative theorizing. I finished a couple of papers on these topics in connection with the distinction between doing harm versus allowing harm and started a paper about the methodology of debates about property. I deepened my knowledge of empirical work by auditing classes and sitting in on lab meetings in psychology and neuroscience. Apart from all of this, I completed my contribution to a symposium on my first book, “Pragmatist Quietism,” which was about the objectivity of morality. The director, staff, and associates of the Center were tremendously supportive, and I found the other fellows’ research to be fascinating; it was a real treat to think through this work in political theory and law, which was so different from the analytic philosophy that I’m accustomed to!

Shatema Threadcraft

My year as an LSR fellow has been the best combination of productive, fulfilling, and inspiring. During the fellowship year, I completed a manuscript that I began in earnest during my last stay at Princeton, “The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy.” The book profiles the democratic contributions of Ida B. Wells; Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till; Clementine Barfield of the Detroit-based anti-youthviolence organization Save Our Sons and Daughters; Margaret Prescod, co-founder of Black Women for Wages for Housework and the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders that formed in response to the “Grim Sleeper,” a serial killer of Black women in Los Angeles; Barbara Smith of the Combahee River Collective and that organization’s work around the serial murder of Black women in Boston in the late 1970s; as well as Toni Morrison as someone who thought a lot about democracy and the morally transgressive feminine dead. The book is particularly interested in how these women have expanded the demographic, discursive, and geographic spaces of U.S. democracy via the necromantic practice at the heart of the Christian tradition, via the labors of resurrection. I am truly grateful to have been given the opportunity and the time to complete the book here. I organized a Women of Color Feminist Political Theory Summer School focused on the theme “Black Women: With, Without, and Beyond Consent.”

I co-organized a workshop on “Race and the Public Sphere.” I served as a discussant for Sharon Bassan’s Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar

paper, “How Women Are Depicted When Reproductive Practices Get to Court.” I also took part in the race and philosophy seminar.

James L. Wilson

During my year at the University Center for Human Values, I was able to make progress on my manuscript on transnational democratization, global economic justice, and the proper democratic response to political violence. I presented a chapter of this work at the LSR seminar at the Center and down the road at the Law & Philosophy Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. I participated in the Center’s race and theory workshop, where I learned a great deal from some very talented scholars. I wrote a paper describing a way to conceive of reparations claims for historic, transnational injustices like the global slave trade and was able to present that paper in the race and theory workshop. I also wrote a paper exploring democratic objections to colonialism for the “Democratic Boundary Workshop,” hosted by UCHV and organized by Elaine Yim, a doctoral student in the Department of Politics. It was a wonderful conference that highlighted papers by Elaine and Anna Stilz and brought in scholars from Princeton and other universities. I also published an article defending territorial constituencies in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Finally, I regularly attended the political theory field seminar, where I enjoyed reading many excellent papers by politics graduate students and joining productive conversations about those papers. Throughout the year, I had many thought-provoking

conversations with doctoral students in the Department of Politics about their work and mine. I also served as a faculty adviser to an undergraduate student in the Values and Public Life Program who was interested in law and social justice. The University Center for Human Values is a wonderful intellectual community, and I am very grateful for my time with such brilliant and friendly faculty, visitors, students, and staff!

UCHV Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

These fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding practitioners, faculty members of any discipline, independent scholars, and lawyers. Fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the Center and SPIA.

My year at UCHV gave me the time and the inspiration to make significant headway in my academic work and to bring my scholarship to the attention of a broader public. In addition to drafting two chapters of my monograph on government officer accountability in the early American republic, I worked with the Brennan Center for Justice’s newly formed Historians’ Council on the Constitution to file two historically focused Supreme Court amicus briefs, presenting evidence showing, respectively, the United States’ long tradition of administrative autonomy and the framers’ rejection

Jane Manners

of presidential immunity. With Melissa Lane, I co-authored an op-ed that ran in the Los Angeles Times, applying ancient Athenians’ understanding of public officials’ duty to take care to former president Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution. This op-ed grew out of my participation in the “Mini APSA Session” that UCHV hosted in February on a panel devoted to Melissa’s recent book, “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.” I also had the chance to help Kim Lane Scheppele plan a two-day workshop on civil service and democracy, at which participants from a range of institutions discussed the history of and current threats to administrators’ independence in the U.S. and abroad. As a regular attendee of the LEGS seminars, the LSR workshop, and the Program in Law and Public Policy events across Washington Road, I interacted with many scholars working on law-related projects around the University. And, of course, I benefited tremendously from conversations with UCHV’s brilliant faculty and the organizational and administrative expertise of UCHV’s remarkable staff.

My fellowship at UCHV was tremendous. During the year, I made an important advance in my multiyear project of developing an empirical approach to constitutional law. I have a paper in progress laying out the case and general normative framework for the need in such an approach, and I have also begun two empirical projects that contribute to several angles of the

issue in collaboration with members of the Princeton community and others. One project addresses the empirical inadequacies of the legal framework addressing European veiling bans, and the second project analyzes the work of Congress as it pertains to empirical evidence in constitutional matters. I have given several talks on my work at UCHV and in SPIA seminars, presenting my papers “Constitutional Consequences” and “Law, Minimalism, Ideology, and the Public Impact of the Supreme Court” and my proposal to convene a Constituent Assembly in Israel. I also participated in academic conferences in both UCHV and SPIA, dealing with the current challenges facing the administrative state and the dangers of democratic erosion globally. Last but not least, I benefited immensely from a series of deep, lengthy conversations with UCHV members and visiting fellows. Together, we tackled some of the greatest democratic problems of our time and brainstormed solutions. I was deeply inspired by these conversations and my overall experience at UCHV. I found UCHV to be a unique academic community—one defined by a winning combination of rigor and a welcoming environment, where fruitful and productive debate occurs across various disciplines and where unparalleled academic excellence is matched by unparalleled commitment to the well-being of each member and the development of community bonds. I will treasure this experience forever, and I am sure that both the relationships and inspiration of UCHV will shape my work for years to come.

Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics

The Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics supports outstanding scholars studying ethical issues arising from developments in medicine or the biological sciences.

Ian Peebles

In my second (and final) year with UCHV, I have made substantial progress in my professional and research goals. Professionally, beginning in the fall of 2024, I will join Arizona State University’s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies as an assistant professor of philosophy. Regarding research, I have a forthcoming article in Philosophers’ Imprint offering a normative framework for adjudicating morally permissible uses of race-based medicine. Additionally, I have three manuscripts under review: one exploring emerging issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human performance enhancement, and national security; another offering frameworks to help clinicians and researchers avoid essentialist inferences and unfair treatment in precision health; and the final one offering a virtue-based account of racism. I am grateful for my time at UCHV, especially for the relationships I’ve developed with past and present affiliates, and I look forward to the next adventure.

Netta Barak-Corren

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Morality

The Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Morality program supports promising scholars with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline whose research focuses on understanding social and/or moral cognition and its implications for normative theories.

Judy Kim

I’m grateful to be able to look back on another wonderful year at UCHV. My main research interest is in how and why we tell narratives about moral actions (joint work with Molly Crockett). The psychology half of this project involves running empirical studies to understand narrator production and audience perceptions of moral narratives. The second, more philosophical half of my research has involved developing a theory of moral narrative exchange. I have two publications coming out soon: one empirical paper on the role of reputational goal recognition on trust and comprehension of moral narratives and another theoretical paper on intuitive theories of morality and cultural evolution. This year, I began advising a couple of students on their theses and will serve as a judge for the UCHV Senior Thesis Prize. An important goal of this program is building a community for a new, interdisciplinary study of moral narratives. Being part of Princeton’s UCHV community has been incredibly helpful in this regard.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cognitive Science of Values

The Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cognitive Science of Values program supports promising scholars with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline whose research focuses on understanding social and/or moral cognition and its implications for normative theories.

Alejandro Vesga Plazas

I have had a wonderful and enriching year as a postdoctoral researcher at UCHV. In terms of research, I have finished and submitted a project on epistemic and non-epistemic notions of belief, co-authored with Tania Lombrozo and Neil Van Leeuwen. Tania and I are also developing a paper on distinctively social kinds of epistemic functionality and justification. I have also led other co-authored projects on the role of shared goals in formal models of communication (forthcoming) and on the intersection of explanatory and value cognition (to be submitted by the end of the term). Further, I have continued my dissertation work on communicative norms, which has led to a paper on the norm of assertion and a paper on the distinction between lying and misleading (both of which will be submitted in the summer), and an empirical project co-authored with Judy Kim—a fellow UCHV postdoc— and graciously funded by the Center. Being a member of UCHV has also given me the invaluable opportunities to lead a Wintersession course on Latin American philosophy and theology of liberation and participate in workshops on understanding human and artificial minds and on epistemology and oppression. During the summer, I’ll be a fellow in the Marc Sanders Foundation workshops on public

philosophy. And while I will miss the warm and rigorous environment of UCHV, I am eager to begin as an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Houston in the fall.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ethics and Climate Change

The Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ethics and Climate Change program supports scholars who focus on the ethical dimensions of climate change and are informed by knowledge of climate science and policy. The fellowship is a joint endeavor with the High Meadows Environmental Institute.

Arthur Obst

During my first year as a postdoctoral associate in the Climate Futures Initiative, the University Center for Human Values gave me a warm welcome to Princeton. The Center’s rich intellectual environment immediately struck me, and I dedicated much of my early months to soaking in the diverse seminars and colloquia. As my research is at the intersection of traditional environmental philosophy and the ongoing climate crisis, I particularly relished the 2023 NOMOS Climate Change Conference in September and “Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals” in October. I have also used this past academic year to develop my scholarship and concretely pay back the UCHV public. I began by successfully revising

two papers for publication in the Public Philosophy Journal and Moral Philosophy and Politics, respectively, and then producing drafts of two papers: “Rewilding Europe and Rewilding North America: Rival Paradigms?” (with Linde De Vroey) and “What Would Aldo Leopold Think About Geoengineering?” Throughout the year, I presented both projects across the University and at national and international conferences. Furthermore, I had the honor of joining a touring panel called “Adapting Environmental Ethics for the Anthropocene” alongside the extraordinary intellectuals Emma Marris and Allen Thompson, who visited Oregon State University, the University of Washington, Princeton University, and the City University of New York. Finally, I took the lead in organizing the ambitious event “Geoengineering in Crisis: The Princeton Workshop on Geoengineering Ethics and Governance,” which will be held at Princeton Sept. 20–21, 2024.

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Philosophy and Religion

The postdoctoral position in the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) supports highly promising scholars who are trained in the philosophy of religion or related areas or the religious thought of some historical period or culture, theories, and methods in the study of religion, in developing a research agenda in the philosophy of religion, broadly construed. This position is a joint endeavor of the University Center, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Religion.

Austen McDougal

This year at UCHV afforded me a terrific opportunity to delve much deeper into my interests in the ethics and moral psychology of love and hate. From 10,000 feet up, my aim is to better understand the nature of love within the framework of contemporary analytic ethical theory but with a historical eye to how religious thinkers have conceptualized love. The ideal of loving your enemy is of special interest to me. I also recently published a paper on reasons to show mercy in certain criminal cases (“Amnesia and Punishment,” forthcoming in Ethics), and I’m continuing research on the reasons for mercy and grace in connection with attitudes like love.

I’ve been generously supported in these pursuits by numerous reading groups and seminars in both the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Religion, as well as UCHV. This May, my group, 3PR, is wrapping up the academic year with a conference on the theme of love, which I am organizing with 3PR co-directors Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell and fellow postdoc Z Quanbeck (also a fantastic office mate). I will be presenting on the notion of paying love forward. Finally, I have greatly enjoyed supporting Princeton’s undergraduates through the Human Values Forum this past year, and this spring, I had the privilege of leading a reading group on the ethics of breakups with some very earnest students.

Z Quanbeck

My first year as a postdoc in the UCHV has been exceptionally intellectually stimulating and academically enriching. In addition to attending a variety of seminars, talks, workshops, and conferences in the UCHV, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Religion, I have co-organized several events this year. With Andrew Chignell, Karin de Boer, and Luis Fellipe Garcia, I am co-organizing the Virtual Kant Congress with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, a decentralized series of virtual sessions curated by Kant societies and groups from around the globe to commemorate Kant’s 300th birthday. Along with Austen McDougal, I am co-organizing a weekly working group for 3PR affiliates to present their research and a conference in May on philosophy, religion, and love. Austen and I also greatly enjoyed participating in and serving as co-advisers to the UCHV’s Human Values Forum this year.

My own research this year has focused especially on a project on Søren Kierkegaard’s ethics of belief. In the fall, I wrote a paper titled “Resolving to Believe: Kierkegaard’s Direct Doxastic Voluntarism” (recently accepted for publication in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), arguing that Kierkegaard endorses a restricted and defensible version of the view that we can believe at the will. This spring, I wrote a paper titled “Doubt’s Despair: Kierkegaard on Moral Responsibility for Believing,” arguing that a central, yet overlooked, form of despair in Kierkegaard’s authorship consists

in failing to properly apprehend and exercise our agency over our beliefs. In addition, this year, I wrote a contemporary epistemology paper called “Zetetic Pluralism,” examining the different kinds of norms governing when and how we ought to engage in inquiry.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Politics

Gabriel Mares

I spent the past academic year working on four main projects: first, my book, tentatively titled, “Beyond the Postcolonial: Comparative Political Theory, Sovereignty, and Reconciliation.” I have completed four chapters and drafted a fifth out of a planned seven. On May 17, UCHV hosted a book manuscript workshop for me with comments by five scholars (four of whom are not Princeton faculty). Second, an article version of one of those chapters, “Recovering African Innovation and Thought in Global Politics,” was accepted for publication in International Theory. Third, another article, “Speech Act Theory and Canon Formation: Insights From the Anti-imperial Recovery of Burke,” received a revise and resubmit from Modern Intellectual History. Finally, a chapter, “Frantz Fanon at the Limits of Just War,” is now forthcoming in an edited volume on just war.

Though my postdoctoral fellowship has no teaching or mentorship requirements, I volunteered to teach an undergraduate thesis seminar for the Values and Public Life Program. The seminar met

intermittently in the fall and weekly in the spring. I regularly attended the weekly workshop for political theory graduate students presenting their dissertation chapter drafts and have met one-on-one with several of the students to offer feedback and guidance. Multiple graduate students in the department have initiated one-on-one meetings with me to discuss their research projects. Lastly, I also intermittently attended workshops and dinners hosted by the University Center for Human Values.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellows

These fellowships, made possible by a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller ’32, are awarded to Princeton graduate students with distinguished academic records who show great promise of contributing to scholarship and teaching about ethics and human values. Fellows participate in an interdisciplinary research seminar throughout the year. In the 2023-24 academic year, the seminar was convened by Elizabeth Harman, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values.

I would like to express my gratitude to UCHV for supporting my research over the past year. I spent my time as a Graduate Prize Fellow working on my dissertation; it has been an enriching and rewarding experience. In the fall, I wrote a chapter titled “Welfare and Autonomy Under Risk,” in which I explore a conflict

between two values: on the one hand, promoting welfare, and on the other, respecting people’s autonomy of choice under risk. In the spring, I wrote another chapter, titled “The Risk-Priority View,” in which I develop and offer a defense of my preferred resolution to this conflict. The view I put forward ends up prioritizing people’s well-being differently in different circumstances, depending on their risk attitude. Roughly, when circumstances are dire, the interest of risk-averse individuals gets foregrounded, but when circumstances are favorable, the interest of risk-seeking individuals gets weighted more heavily instead. I am currently in the process of rewriting my first dissertation chapter, which aims to defend a view about welfare, or well-being, that my later chapters rely on. The interdisciplinary environment of the Graduate Prize Fellowship seminar, convened by Liz Harman, has offered me a unique opportunity to hear about and engage with work on normative issues from a wide range of academic perspectives.

Candace Jordan

As a Graduate Prize Fellow, I made significant progress on two chapters of my dissertation, which elaborates on anger’s fittingness in response to injustice. The interdisciplinary cohort of fellows offered thoughtful feedback on a chapter that demonstrates anger’s capacity to forge solidary bonds among protesting persons. Having practiced presenting this chapter to the fellows improved the presentation significantly in advance of my presenting the material at a Yale Divinity School

Pietro Cibinel

conference. In addition to advancing my dissertation, the fellowship offered professional development resources that helped me refine job market materials and begin considering how to navigate the transition from doctoral candidate to postdoctoral scholar. Indeed, one of the features of the Graduate Prize Fellowship is having intimate access to a variety of UCHVsponsored programs, including practice job talks among the graduate and postdoctoral cohorts and professional development sessions tailored for each. I am grateful for the relationships formed during the fellowship, and I look forward to them continuing to bear fruit in the years to come.

Jenna April Liuzzi

I am immensely grateful to have been selected as a Graduate Prize Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year. As funding for dissertation completion is scarce for those in my year of study, the fellowship offered by UCHV was so helpful as it granted me the necessary resources to complete my dissertation. Moreover, I benefited greatly from the dissertation seminar in which I had the opportunity to develop my presentation skills while engaging in the rich intellectual community that offered discussion, collaboration, feedback, and accountability. I was able to make substantial progress on my dissertation, which examines representations of female victims of sexual violence in contemporary French literature and film. In this project, I argue that the works I examine strategically utilize narrative, formal experimentation, as well as other aesthetic and rhetorical

devices to render a nuanced and dynamic portrait of victimhood, thereby reshaping the contours of what is permissible to say and show regarding rape victims through works of art. I demonstrate how these contemporary works challenge misconceptions (e.g., victim-blaming myths) of the figure of the victim while underscoring the ethics and complexity of survival. Human values are thus central to my project in that I emphasize how these works expand understandings of victimhood by provoking audiences to think critically about the inherently untidy nature of the trauma recovery process. This fellowship enabled me to turn in a finished project to my adviser by the end of the year. Thank you to the entire community at UCHV, especially Professor Liz Harman for her professional guidance and my cohort for their helpful feedback.

Leon Mait

Thanks to the Graduate Prize Fellowship, I was able to dedicate the past year to completing my dissertation. My work centers on how laypeople construe different kinds of diversity, with a specific focus on how Americans juxtapose and differentially rationalize socioeconomic diversity versus racial diversity in the context of higher education. I started and finished my third chapter, which examines how underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities respond to universities turning to socioeconomic diversity in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban. I was also able to submit two co-authored manuscripts for review and make substantial progress on a third

one that I had begun three years ago but kept putting on the back burner due to other responsibilities. Finally, one of the most valuable aspects of being a UCHV Graduate Prize Fellow was the opportunity to present my work to my peers from other disciplines; this helped me refine how I frame my research for nonpsychology audiences, particularly how I translate the practical implications of my work.

Gaby Nair

Over the past academic year as a Graduate Prize Fellow, I was able to write and revise two full chapters of my dissertation, as well as begin work on two additional dissertation chapters. I presented at one conference, and I applied (successfully) to present at two additional conferences. I also submitted a paper to a journal for review.

The Graduate Prize Fellowship also gave me the opportunity to give a talk on my dissertation research, forcing me to think about its organization and key claims. I also participated in the Graduate Prize Fellow seminars, learning from other young scholars beyond my discipline. It was a rewarding experience!

The University Center for Human Values also connected me to visiting faculty from whom I have learned a lot. Meeting with Jim Wilson and Shatema Threadcraft, in particular, was incredibly helpful for my dissertation progress. Both gave me incredible insight and advice. Finally, as with every year, the events hosted by UCHV have been amazing. This year’s invited speakers taught me so much, and I co-organized a

conference on my research with a fellow graduate student with UCHV support. Meeting scholars in my field helped me understand how to position my research, and I learned so much from the experience.

Kerem Oktar

Ninety percent of people do not question their views when faced with societal dissent. I study the mechanisms responsible for such belief persistence through controversies in four domains: moral (e.g., euthanasia), scientific (e.g., climate change), political (e.g., gun rights), and religious (e.g., atheism). UCHV’s generous funding has given me the resources this year to examine persistence on 96 issues using nationally representative data from thousands of participants. I have presented this research at 10 international conferences and research groups across the U.S. and published multiple papers on it. Moreover, I have been able to extend our results through ongoing collaborations with Princeton undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, psychology, and computer science. Beyond research, the additional funding has enabled me to participate in Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative, where I co-taught a course on the psychology of justice at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. I am grateful to UCHV for enabling my pursuit of these projects—and for providing a wonderful community (in particular, through the weekly Graduate Prize Fellows seminar, where I learned the objectively correct way to do a Q&A from Liz Harman).

Nikhil Pandhi

My year as a UCHV Graduate Prize Fellow has been an intellectually and emotionally rewarding one. I started off by publishing an academic article in Anthropology & Medicine, a single-authored book chapter in “The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health,” and also by securing a book contract from India’s leading feminist press, Zubaan Books, for publishing an edited-translated collection of selected Dalit-feminist short stories (Hindi-English) belonging to a range of anti-caste writers and creatives with whom I did my doctoral fieldwork in India (to be published this year). Parsing and mediating between several humanistic horizons of knowledge, feeling and worlding in so many different genres, from the academic to the literary, has not only been deeply stimulating for me as a cultural anthropologist but also what UCHV seminars encouraged its GPFs to do as scholars and thinkers. I’m glad that I also had a chance to work substantially on the four chapters of my doctoral dissertation, and I am especially delighted to be moving to Dartmouth College this fall to commence a coveted postdoctoral fellowship in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows.

Max Ridge

As a Graduate Prize Fellow, I had the opportunity to work on two substantive chapters of my dissertation on the functional theory of G.D.H. Cole, as well as successfully draft and submit a research article on gothic architecture and democracy to a scholarly journal. In addition, I had the pleasure of hosting a two-day workshop on intermediary bodies in democratic theory (as well as planning a second on pluralism and polarity in international relations in conjunction with the Reimagining World Order research community at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies). My connection to UCHV also allowed me to mentor an undergraduate student in the Values and Public Life Program. I will miss the camaraderie of the GPF seminar and all of the interdisciplinary conviviality it entailed.

Emily “Sal” Salamanca

With the generous support of UCHV this year, I made significant progress on my dissertation, tentatively titled “Legitimizing Luxury: Wealth, Politics, and Sumptuary Law in the CityState.” Presenting an early chapter of this thesis at the GPF seminar helped me garner rich feedback about how to pitch and present my work in the future. This year, I also had an article

published on Athenian ostracism and militant democracy, a draft of which I was able to present at the Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory. With the support of the UCHV, I have also put together a conference for the fall of 2024 called “Of Marble and Mines: The Politics of Architecture, Freedom, and Oppression in the Roman World,” which I am coordinating with a future UCHV fellow. Beyond this, I have put together a panel for the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting on aesthetics and democracy in Ancient Greece, where I will also present a chapter from my dissertation. With additional funding from UCHV, I will participate in a reading group on Plato’s “Meno” this summer and attend intensive language school for a week. I am very grateful for the overwhelming support!

Xinyi Wei

I am grateful for an immensely rewarding year as a Graduate Prize Fellow with UCHV. Thanks to the rigorous and fruitful seminar discussions, and especially the thought-provoking feedback I received from my peers, I significantly expanded on the introduction chapter of my dissertation. The UCHV fellows, with their different disciplinary training, enriched my discussion of the theoretical meaning and application of agency, subjectivity, and unfreedom. Over the course of the year, I have produced drafts of two chapters of my dissertation. In addition to giving a mock job talk, I attended two academic conferences, where I continued to hone my skills at presenting my research to a nonspecialist

audience. It was a true privilege to be learning alongside such an amazing cohort of Graduate Prize Fellows.

Visiting Scholars

In my second year with UCHV, I continued to pursue the research project on academic unfreedom, political exit, and exile that I began upon my arrival in the fall of 2022. I was privileged to be invited to discuss the project with highly engaged audiences at Princeton, including at seminars and the Human Values Forum, as well as at the University of Virginia and the major conference of exiled Russian scholars. In 2023-24, UCHV launched an initiative on academic freedom, featuring an academic workshop to which I contributed.

UCHV is a unique place for building an academic community. This year, I continued my collaboration with the 2022-23 LSR Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching Alison McQueen and LSR fellow Desmond Jagmohan, who assisted in organizing an APSA 2023 panel and a research seminar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2024.

All these occasions have helped to streamline my writing. At the end of my second year at UCHV, I am revising three articles for resubmission to major academic journals and writing a book, “Academic Unfreedom,” for Princeton University Press. Finally, UCHV provided opportunities to develop one of my longstanding projects on the linkage between the

idea of international community and the history of sanctions into a paper, drafts of which I presented at the International Studies Association conferences and the Association for Global Political Thought conference at Princeton. This paper is also being revised for resubmission to a leading international relations journal.

Greg Yudin

My second year at UCHV was a unique opportunity to spend time on institution building. In 2024, I became part of the founding team of the Institute for Global Reconstitution, a new academic think tank in Berlin inspired by the outbreak of war in Europe, which will address the most pressing global challenges by bringing together political thinkers, public intellectuals, and policymakers. Many discussions that helped create the Institute took place in Princeton with UCHV colleagues and guests. I also had the honor of taking part in events organized by Princeton’s Department of Politics and addressing the issues of understanding public opinion in Russia. At the same time, I signed a contract for a book project that arose from a short paper for JanWerner Müller’s workshop on the democratization paradigm in the fall of 2023. I am truly grateful to Jan, as well as Kim Lane Scheppele, Philip Pettit, and many other colleagues for their invaluable guidance and advice. I look forward to continuing my research at Princeton as a 2024-25 Davis Center Fellow.

Evgeny Roshchin

People

UCHV faculty, fellows, and visitors at the 2023 Welcome Dinner

People

Faculty

Edward Baring

Associate Professor of History and Human Values

Andrew Chignell

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values

Molly Crockett

Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values

Christopher L. Eisgruber President of the University; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Early-Career Research

Erika Kiss

Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, European Cultural Studies, and Human Values

Melissa Lane

Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Lectures on Human Values Committee; Acting Director, Values and Public Life Program

Victoria McGeer

Senior Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values (on leave 2023-2024)

Philip Pettit

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values (on leave 2023-24)

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director, Program in Law and Normative Thinking

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Anna Stilz

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Executive

Committee

Melissa Lane

Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Edward Baring

Associate Professor of History and Human Values

Charles Beitz

Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics; Professor of Politics

Sandra Bermann

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Values and Public Life Program (on leave 2023-24)

Lara Buchak Professor of Philosophy

Andrew Chignell

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values

Molly Crockett Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values

Eric Gregory Professor of Religion

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Early-Career Research

Tania Lombrozo

Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology; Director, Program in Cognitive Science

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Lectures on Human Values Committee; Acting Director, Values and Public Life Program

Victoria McGeer

Senior Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values (on leave 2023-2024)

Jan-Werner Müller

Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics; Director, Program in Political Philosophy

Alan Patten

Howard Harrison and Gabrielle

Snyder Beck Professor of Politics; Chair, Department of Politics

Philip Pettit

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values (on leave 2023-24)

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director, Program in Law and Normative Thinking

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Michael Smith McCosh Professor of Philosophy

Anna Stilz

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Left to right: Steve Macedo and Chuck Beitz listen to Paul C. Taylor deliver the spring 2024 Moffett Lecture

Associated Faculty

Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Head of Butler College

Leora Batnitzky

Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Religion; Director, Program in Judaic Studies

João Biehl

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology

Amy Borovoy Professor of East Asian Studies

Michael Celia

Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jonathan D. Cohen

Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Alin Coman

Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Gregory Conti

Assistant Professor of Politics; Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor

Nathaniel Daw

Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience; Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology

Lidal Dror

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Mitchell Duneier

Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology

Karen Emmerich

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Paul Frymer Professor of Politics

Daniel Garber

A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy

Sheldon Garon

Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Studies

Sophie Gee

Associate Professor of English; Associate Chair, Department of English

Robert P. George

McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Professor of Politics; Director, James Madison Program

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

James S. McDonnell

Distinguished University Professor; Professor of African American Studies

Jonathan C. Gold Professor of Religion; Director, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion

Lars Hedin

George M. Moffett Professor of Biology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Grace Helton

Assistant Professor of Philosophy; R.R. Laidlaw University Preceptor

Brooke Holmes

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics; Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism

Mark Johnston

Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy

Thomas Kelly Professor of Philosophy

Martin Kern

Joanna and Greg Zeluck ’84 P13 P18 Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies

Joshua Kotin

Associate Professor of English

Ilyana Kuziemko

Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies

Frances E. Lee Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics

Thomas C. Leonard Research Scholar, the Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in Economics, the University Center for Human Values, and Freshman Seminars

Sarah-Jane Leslie Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy

Simon A. Levin

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Anne McClintock

A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Sarah McGrath Professor of Philosophy

Helen V. Milner

B.C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs; Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

Benjamin Morison Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy

Naomi Murakawa

Associate Professor of African American Studies

Jacob Nebel Professor of Philosophy

Rob Nixon

Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment; Professor of English and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Guy Nordenson Professor of Architecture

Kim Lane Scheppele asks a question during a panel at the Peter Singer Farewell Conference

Jeff Nunokawa Professor of English

Serguei A. Oushakine Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Stephen Pacala

Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dan-el Padilla Peralta Associate Professor of Classics

Deborah A. Prentice

Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Gideon Rosen

Stuart Professor of Philosophy

Esther Schor

John J.F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor; Professor of English; Chair, Council of the Humanities; Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion; Director, Program in Humanistic Studies

Paul Starr

Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

Frederick Wherry

Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology; Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion; Director, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows

David S. Wilcove Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Acting Vice Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Advisory Council

Anita L. Allen

Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Eric A. Beerbohm *08 Professor of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics

Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 President, Everfast, Inc.

Sara Ogger *00 Executive Director, Humanities New York

Henry Richardson Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University; Senior Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Mark F. Rockefeller ’89 Founder and Chairman of Legacy Connect/ThatHelps

Debra Satz

Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of H&S; Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society; Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science, Stanford University

Alan Patten and Anna Stilz listen to the spring Moffett Lecture

Administration

Melissa Lane

Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Sandra Bermann

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Values and Public Life Program (on leave 2023-24)

Wayne Bivens-Tatum Library Liaison, University Center for Human Values

Tina Chandler

Lead Shared Services Grant Manager

Julie Clack

Senior Communications Strategist, University Center for Human Values

Lisa Corrato

Assistant Manager, Shared Services, Financial Support Services

Regin Davis

Assistant Director, University Center for Human Values

Dawn Disette

Administrative Assistant, University Center for Human Values

Kimberly Girman

Faculty Assistant/Program Event Coordinator, University Center for Human Values

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director, Early-Career Research

Tammy Hojeibane

Event and Communications Specialist, University Center for Human Values

Erika Kiss

Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, European Cultural Studies, and Human Values

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Lectures on Human Values Committee; Acting Director, Values and Public Life Program

Left to right: Jane Peters and Tammy Hojeibane pose for a picture at a UCHV event.

Caroline McHugh Sitren

Shared Grants Manager, Research and Project Administration

Kimberly Murray

Program Manager, University Center for Human Values

Andrew Perhac

Technical Support Specialist, University Center for Human Values

Jane Peters

Event and Office Coordinator, University Center for Human Values

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director, Program in Law and Normative Thinking

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