contact Department of Philosophy Wellesley College 106 Central St Wellesley, Mass. 02481 hdebres at wellesley dot edu office: FND 320, ph: 781 283 2624 Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy (Normative, Applied) employment Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. (2008-present) Assistant Professor of Philosophy Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. (2007-2008) Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Global Justice education M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. (2002-2007) PhD in Philosophy (September 2007) MA in Philosophy (September 2004) Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (1997-2000) B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy (December 2000) B.A. in Philosophy and French (December 1999) publications papers "The Many, not the Few: Pluralism about Global Distributive Justice", forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy "What's Special about the State?", Utilitas 23:2 (2011), pp. 140-160 "The Cooperation Argument for Fairness in International Trade", Journal of Social Philosophy 42:2 (2011), pp. 192-218 reviews Review of Richard Miller, Globalizing Justice (Oxford, 2010), forthcoming in Ethics and International Affairs Review of Eric Posner and David Weisbach, Climate Change Justice (Princeton, 2010), Journal of Applied Philosophy 28:3 (2011), pp. 323-326 Review of Allen Buchanan, Human Rights, Legitimacy and the Use of Force (Oxford, 2010), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2010) other Entries (4) for The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (Jon Mandle and David Reidy, eds., Cambridge, forthcoming) Ethics cases (10) for World Politics: Interests, Interactions and Institutions (Jeffrey Frieden, David Lake and Kenneth Schultz, Norton 2009) teaching experience Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Instructor:Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2011) Social and Political Philosophy (Spring 2010, Spring 2011) Introduction to Global Justice (Fall 2008, Spring 2010) Environmental Ethics (Fall 2010) Democracy (Spring 2009) Seminar: Justice and International Trade (Spring 2009, Fall 2010) Seminar: Well-being and Morality (Fall 2009) Advisor of independent student research projects / honors theses on: the foundations of human rights (2008-9); natural law, political liberalism and same-sex marriage (Fall 2009); climate change-related migration (2010-11, co-advisor); the ethics of humanitarian intervention (Spring 2011). Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Instructor: Introduction to Global Justice (Spring 2008) M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. Teaching Assistant: 2003-2005 MIT Goodwin Medal for Teaching Excellence 2006 professional activities Presenter, "Is the Citizenship Premium Unfair?", conference on "Wellbeing and Inequality in the Long Run", Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (May 31-June 1, 2012) Presenter, "Disaggregating Global Justice", Global Justice Network conference on "The Scope of Equality", Budapest (July 5-7, 2012); Stanford Political Theory Workshop (April 6, 2012). Presenter, "Fair Trade", New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hartford (April 29, 2011). Presenter, “The Many, not the Few:
Pluralism About Global Distributive Justice”, MIT-ing of the Minds conference, MIT Philosophy department (January 25, 2011) / Rocky
Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado at Boulder (August 6-9, 2009). Presenter, “The
Cooperation Argument for Fairness in International Trade”, International Society for Utilitarian Studies Meeting, University of California at Berkeley (September 11-14, 2008).
Presenter, "What's Special About the State?", New England Consequentialism Workshop (Harvard, May 11, 2011) / Global Justice Workshop, Stanford University (January 2008). Discussant, Fair Trade conference, University of Washington (May 13, 2011) Discussant, Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting (November 2008) Discussant, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (December 2007) Discussant, Global Justice Workshop, Stanford University: Seana Shiffrin, UCLA (April 2007), Branko Milanovic, World Bank (September 2007) Co-founder, New England Consequentialism Workshop (Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University) - ongoing Referee: Journal of Political Philosophy; Journal of Social Philosophy; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Political Studies; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Penn State University Press; Routledge. wellesley activities Faculty Fellow and member of Selection Committee, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs (2010, 2011) Organizer, Global Justice and Human Rights faculty reading group: https://sites.google.com/site/wellesleygjhr/ Member, Committee on Extra-Mural Graduate Fellowships Faculty Advisor, Wellesley Philosophy Club Faculty Advisor, Wellesley Law Journal phiz:  |