Faculty Fellows

Each year The Murphy Institute hosts three CE Faculty Fellows, faculty on research leave from their home institutions. They spend a year in residence at Tulane, conducting their own research while participating in the Center for Ethics' seminars, lectures, and conferences.

2026-2027 Call for Applications

The application for the 2026-2027 Visiting Faculty Fellowship is now closed. For more information on the CE Faculty Fellowships application process, click here: Apply - Interfolio.

The Center for Ethics at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University invites applications for three Faculty Fellowships/Visiting Research Professorships for the 2026-2027 academic year. These fellowships are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on ethics; political and social philosophy; moral psychology, agency and responsibility; philosophy of law; political theory; or questions of moral choice in areas such as (but not restricted to) business, government, law, economics, public health and medicine.

While fellows will participate in seminars, lectures, and conferences organized by the Murphy Institute, they will be expected to devote most of their time to conducting their research.

Faculty Fellows are appointed as Visiting Research Professors at Tulane University’s Murphy Institute, receive a salary of $70,000, and are eligible for faculty benefits, including medical insurance. Faculty Fellows enjoy the use of private faculty offices and receive assistance from the Murphy Institute staff and graduate assistants. The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics is one of the most active in the country, hosting fourteen guest speakers and sponsoring several international conferences each year.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a doctorate in philosophy, political theory, law, political economy, economics, public health, or a related discipline at the time of application. Applicants must also hold a full-time college or university appointment at the time of application. Faculty Fellowships are open to full-time faculty at all ranks.

Application Instructions

Applicants must apply via Interfolio. The application for the 2026-2027 academic year is is December 15, 2025. Required application materials include a curriculum vitae, a project description (including a one-page bibliography) of approximately 1500 words, a scholarly paper, and two confidential letters of recommendation. Apply here: Apply - Interfolio

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Tulane University is located in New Orleans - a city with tremendous history of diverse cultures, community, and languages. Tulane is actively building a campus culture grounded in our values of EDI and anti-racism. We seek and welcome candidate applications from historically underrepresented groups, such as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), women, LGBTQ+, and those living with disabilities as well as veterans.

Tulane University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution committed to excellence through diversity. Tulane University will not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other status or classification protected by federal, state, or local law. All eligible candidates are encouraged to apply.

2026-2027 Faculty Fellows

Tariq Basir

Tariq Basir is a political economist. His primary research interests lie in political economics and formal theory with applications to revolutions, collective action problem, democratization processes and non-democratic politics.

Johann Caro-Burnett

Johann Caro-Burnett is an Associate Professor at Hiroshima University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and teaches public economics and causal inference. His work combines empirical analysis and formal theory to study how institutions (such as social norms and formal legal rules) shape incentives, behavior, and economic outcomes.

Brian Kogelmann

Brian Kogelmann is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Purdue University. He is also an Affiliated Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His work is at the intersection of ethics and political economy.

Vlad Tarko

Vlad Tarko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of Graduate Studies of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program. His research ranges from an economic model of how people choose their personal identities and undergo profound transformative experiences; the changing dynamic of status competitions in rich societies leading to the proliferation of conflicting groups; a synthesis of the Buchanan-Wagner perspective on the biases in public finance, leading to inefficient levels of public debt.