MICHELE mOODY-aDAMS
Philosopher & pROFESSOR
Marshall Scholar, Class of 1978 (Somerville College at Oxford)
“If we don’t have room in the 21st century for the idea that a person’s political commitments can be complicated, I don’t know what we have room for… I don’t want to live in a world like that. I want to live in a world where I can be surprised, because people really are complicated and surprising.”
- Michele Moody-Adams
PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CHANGE
Michele Moody-Adams is the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and Philosophy. Her scholarship is focused on academic freedom, equal educational opportunity and moral progress. She is a Joseph Strauss Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, where she also was a Dean of Columbia College for two years. Her research focuses on ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy. She has written extensively about the philosophy of race and gender, social and economic justice and moral psychology.