About me
I received my PhD in philosphy from the University of Chicago in 2016 and have been working at Fordham University since 2017. My research interests currently gravitate around the following topics:
Corporate governance, in particular shareholder primacy, the view that firms should be managed in the interest of shareholders: I have shown that shareholder primacy is ethically legitimate, but that it imposes on managers and shareholders obligations that are more demanding than typically acknowledged.
Ethical and character development in organizations: I am interested in understanding how organizations support and threaten our character and ethical development. I am also interested in understanding the role that self-examination and self-knowledge play in our character formation and ethical growth. I approach these questions by trying to bring together empirical results from social psychology, cognitive science, organizational behavior, and clinical psychology with theoretical insights of virtue ethicists.Â
Socratic ignorance, the view that highest form of human wisdom consist in the recognition of one's ignorance about the most important human questions: Thinking through the idea that Socrates' legacy is a model for how to flourish within aporia provides us with valuable insights to think about leadership, management, artificial intelligence, and the future of work.
I was honored to receive Gabelli School's 2022 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (in recognition of my impact on students during their college years and into the future), Fordham's 2021 Distinguished Research Award (given to a junior scholar across all its schools and divisions), and the Business Ethics Quarterly Outstanding Article Award in 2019 for my article "Weeding out Flawed Versions of Shareholder Primacy."
During 2022-2023 I will be taking a one-year sabbatical, thanks to the generous support from the Institute of Humane Studies and Fordham University.
You can contact me at: smejia13@fordham.edu
