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Welcome to my webpage. I am a Lecturer in the Program in Ethics, Politics & Economics and the Political Science Department at Yale. In 2009-2010, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I specialize in applied ethics and political philosophy and have subsidiary research and teaching interests in legal philosophy, normative ethics, constitutional theory, social theory, and political economy.

My research focuses on explaining the wrongness of social injustices, and on the structure of normative theories of politics and economics. Some of it is published in Ethics & the Environment, The Philosophical Forum, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Nexos.

I took the PhD in political philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 2008. My dissertation, directed by Richard Flathman and Sean Greenberg, was titled "The Structure of Political Theories: Why Normative Theories of Politics and Economics Depend on Ethics." I entered the PhD program at Johns Hopkins in September 2003.

You can contact me at: tjdonahu AT gmail DOT com or thomas DOT donahue AT yale DOT edu.

A PDF of my CV is here.