Jonathan Quong received his doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Oxford and is a faculty member in Politics at the University of Manchester in the UK. He has recently published or forthcoming papers in Journal of Applied Philosophy; Journal of Political Philosophy; and Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
Elaine Sternberg earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the London School of Economics, where she was also a Fulbright Fellow and a Lecturer. She is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, and has been a Bradley Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center of Bowling Green University.
Karl Widerquist earned a Ph.D. in Economics from City University of New York in 1996, and D.Phil. in Political Theory at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University in June of 2006, and is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Reading. Dr. Widerquist serves as an editor of Basic Income Studies. His publications include The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (ed. with Michael A.
Jill Locke is Associate Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College. She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University in 2001, and was a recipient of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in 1999-2000.
David Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He was a Scheinburn Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College at Oxford University, and, most recently a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Steven Wall is Associate Professor of Philosophy the University of Connecticut. He received his a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1997 and his dissertation, “Liberalism, Perfection and Restraint,” won the 1997 Political Studies Association’s Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy. During the 2002-2003 academic year he was the Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He specializes in political philosophy, and is currently writing a book-length study on “Democratic Perfectionism.”
Jonathan Pritchett is Associate Professor of Economics at Tulane University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. His research concerns the economic history of slavery and the U.S. interregional slave trade. He develops and analyzes large computerized databases using information found in original manuscript sources.
Elizabeth Brake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews in 1999. Her areas of specialization include ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Professor Brake is the recipient of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant for 2005-2008. She is currently writing a book-length manuscript entitled “Defending ‘Minimal Marriage’: Marriage, Ethics and the Law.”
Ruth Abbey is the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Abbey received a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Her book, Charles Taylor, was selected as one of the 2002 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Magazine.
Oliver Sensen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. His research and teaching focus on modern philosophy and ethics, and in particular on Kant’s ethics. Professor Sensen earned his doctorate in philosophy at King’s College, University of Cambridge in 2004. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard, where he earned two teaching awards. At Tulane, he was awarded the Graduate Studies Student Association’s award for excellence in graduate teaching in 2007.
