Mark LeBar is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University and a 2022-2023 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. Professor LeBar's primary research interests are in moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy.
Alin Fumurescu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston and a 2022 – 2023 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. Professor Fumurescu’s research includes the history of ideas, political and self-representation, and American political thought. Fumurescu received the American Political Science Association Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy in 2013.
Carmen Pavel is Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Kings College, London and a 2022-2023 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. Professor Pavel’s research primarily focuses on international justice and international law, liberal theory and contemporary changes to it, and ethics and public policy.
Christopher Ambrose is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Chris completed his undergraduate education at Gonzaga University and received his Ph.D. in economics from Washington State University in 2021. His research focuses on health and drug policy. He is currently studying the effects of recreational marijuana laws on substance use outcomes.
S. M. Love is Assistant Professor of Philosophy with a joint appointment at the College of Law at Georgia State University and a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. Professor Love’s primary research interests are in political and legal theory, where she aims to show that Immanuel Kant’s theory of right has a great deal to offer to contemporary discussions of political and legal theory. In addition, Love also studies Karl Marx’s treatment of capitalism.
Fabienne Peter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. She has written extensively on political legitimacy.
Michael Hannon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. He works primarily in social and political epistemology.
Caner Turan, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, specializes in Kant, metaethics, evolutionary ethics, and early modern philosophy. He’s writing his dissertation on the relationship between Kant’s ethics and evolutionary approaches to ethics under the direction of Professor Oliver Sensen.
