2025 Senior Awards Dinner celebrating the graduating cohort in Political Economy. Hosted by Dr. John Louis Howard, Associate Director of The Murphy Institute and Undergraduate Program in Political Economy.

Benjamin Ferguson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Director of the University’s PPE program, and a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics.

Rachel Zuckert is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Their research focuses on Kant and his philosophical context, broadly understood: both his eighteenth-century contemporaries, and post-Kantian, nineteenth-century philosophy. 

Gina Schouten received her PhD in 2013 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and prior to joining Harvard as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2016, occupied the same position for three years at Illinois State University. Her research interests include gender justice, educational justice, and political legitimacy. 

Alexander Schaefer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University at Buffalo. Their research focuses on social complexity, institutional evolution, and the social contract within the subfield of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). 

Luca Ferrero is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics.

Johanna Jauernig is a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and has a background in philosophy, experimental economics, and moral psychology.

Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. 

Most of her research is in social epistemology with a current focus on issues involving credibility assessments within the American criminal legal system and epistemic reparations.