About Us
This event is organized by Candice Delmas (c.delmas@northeastern.edu) and co-organized by Alex Guerrero, Gina Schouten, Helena de Bres, and Erin Kelly.
Candice Delmas
Candice Delmas, the chief program coordinator for Summer 2022, is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University jointly appointed in the Departments of Philosophy and Religion and Political Science. She works in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. She is the author of A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Alex Guerrero
Alex Guerrero is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, currently serving as the Director of Graduate Admissions and regularly serving as the Director of the Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. His work includes research on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, and epistemology (particularly social epistemology), with interests in African Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Native American Philosophy. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy Compass, the leading journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles that cover the most important research and current thinking from across the discipline of philosophy.
Read his Daily Nous guest post, "To Be a Department of Philosophy" here.
Gina Schouten
As an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, Dr. Schouten has taught a variety of classes in ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, feminism, and educational ethics. She has researched and written about political liberalism and political legitimacy, egalitarian justice, education, and the gendered division of labor. I have ongoing projects on equal educational opportunity, sectoral justice more broadly, and liberal egalitarian theory.
Helena de Bres
As an Associate Professor in the Wellesley College Department of Philosophy, Dr. de Bres's current research focuses on the nature and value of memoir and the question of what makes a life meaningful. Her prior research constituted of distributive justice in global politics, and she teaches courses in both areas of study.
Erin Kelly
Erin Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences, and a faculty member of the Civic Studies Program. Her research interests are in moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of law, with a focus on questions about justice, the nature of moral reasons, moral responsibilities and desert, and theories of punishment. Her current work aims, among other things, to develop philosophical conceptions of reparative and transformative justice as alternatives to retributive accounts of punishment.
Cora Lundgren
Cora Lundgren is a candidate for a Bachelor of Science in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics with a concentration in Environment & Energy Policy and a minor in Criminal Justice. In January-June 2022, she worked at the Ethics Institute as a Project and Research Assistant Co-op. She was involved in the design of the NEWLAMP website and program communications.
Allana Knowles
Allana Knowles is a candidate for a Bachelor of Science in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, with an interest in social and political philosophy. She is currently working as a Legislative and Activism Intern at Massachusetts Peace Action and will be the undergraduate student TA for NEWLAMP this year.
This event is made possible through generous support from Northeastern University’s Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ethics Institute, and Humanities Center; Harvard University; Wellesley College; the American Philosophical Association; and the New England Humanities Consortium.