Caroline Subbiah, a Values and Public Life certificate student at UCHV is one of four Princeton University seniors to be awarded a ReachOut Fellowship for public service. Caroline is…
Melissa Lane on BBC Radio 4 discussing "Solon the Lawgiver"
The University Center for Human Values is delighted to announce its newly appointed Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows for the academic year 2023-2024.
Daniel Fryer, University of Michigan
Professor Lea Ypi delivered the lecture "Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family's History" on February 9 in the Friend Center. A summary of her lecture was written by Gaby Nair, a political theory graduate student in the Department of Politics.
Heartiest congratulations to Peter Singer honored with receiving the Frontiers of Knowledge Award!
Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, founding director, Project in the History of Political Thought and director, Program in Political Philosophy, will deliver the Rousseau Lectures at the
UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Federico Fabbrini, was invited to speak at the House of Lords, European Union Affairs Committee on March 1 to discuss the
The Center for Human Values' Evgeny Roshchin, research scholar, and Greg Yudin, visiting research scholar are featured in the February issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The…
Fintan O'Toole gave his Tanner Lectures, Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art, in the Friend Center at Princeton on 9 and 10 November 2023.
Recap of Lecture 1: "Against Artfulness"
Written by: Micheal Smith, McCosh Professor of Philosophy
The first lecture, "Against…
The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) has been welcoming students to its Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship (GPF) Program since 1991.
Values and Public Life student Xander de los Reyes selected to join the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative.
Recap of the November 17 James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics with invited speaker Robert Gooding-Williams, "Du Bois and "The Souls of White Folk'"
Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, will deliver the inaugural Sternhell Lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 11, 2023. Zeev…
Princeton University recently selected its 2023 Baccalaureate speaker, Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University Professor of Philosophy and Law, and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Emeritus.
A Princeton University news story highlights the University’s most recent efforts to uphold its long-standing tradition to support at-risk scholars displaced by world events.
The University Center for Human Values is delighted to announce that Melissa Lane, director of the University Center for Human Values and Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, received the 2022 Community Engagement Faculty Award in recognition of her commitment to service and civic…
Federico Fabbrini, UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics and Public Policy, and Full Professor of European Law at Dublin City University, authors his latest book “EU Fiscal Capacity: Legal Integration After Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine.” Published this week by Oxford University Press the…
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, and one of the philosophical leaders behind the Effective Altruism project was interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek to talk about the…
Senior research scholar at the University Center for Human Values, Victoria McGeer, has been elected a Corresponding Fellow by the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Federico Fabbrini discusses the departure of UK's Prime Minister Liz Truss and the ramifications of Britain leaving the European Union.
The dedication of Laura Wooten Hall on October 26 honors the legacy of the devoted and beloved election polling volunteer.
It is a delight to introduce UCHV Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy who have been appointed for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Federico Fabbrini, Dublin City University, Ireland
Federico Fabbrini is a full professor of European…
Federico Fabbrini, UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy discussed Brexit and the appointment of the United Kingdom's new prime minister, Liz Truss. The interview was featured…
A recap of the April Tanner Lectures on Human Values with Elizabeth Kolbert written by former UCHV Ethics of Climate Change Postdocs, Colin Hickey and Simona Capisani.
Molly Crockett joined as a joint faculty member on July 1.
An August 4 visit to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas by Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, generated a flurry of media attention, and Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, was interviewed by various news outlets to share her expert opinion.
UCHV joins with the Princeton University community in grieving for the death of John Cooper, Henry Putnam University Professor, emeritus (1939-2022). John Cooper was a charter member of the UCHV Executive Committee from its founding and for many years thereafter. His wise, and sharp, judgment will be much missed. We honor his memory…
The Board of Regents at the University of Michigan recently named a Collegiate Professorship in honor of Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School for Public and…
An article by Peter Singer and Yip Fai Tse titled "AI ethics: the case for including animals" was recently published in the journal AI & Ethics, in which they explore the impact AI has on nonhuman animals, the severity of these impacts, and their moral implications. Read…
In an op-ed in the New York Daily News, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values Elizabeth Harman tells the story of her own miscarriage and how it forced her to grapple with her views on the ethics of abortion. Can we support abortion while recognizing that it is reasonable to mourn a…
UCHV's founding director, Amy Gutmann, discusses the personal and moving connection to her new role as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Click here to read The New York Times article "Her Father Fled the Nazis. She's the New U.S. Ambassador to Germany"…
Professor Chignell's five-minute Tell Me More interview aired on April 5.
The June 10 New York Times article "How Journalists Wrestle with Covering Threats to Democracy" cites the work of a panel of scholars including Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values…
In the op-ed "What Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are learning about the politics of retribution" Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, draws comparisons in ways of governing…
Effective July 1, Marx Hall will be renamed to Laura Wooten Hall.
Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, is the author of "Germany Inc.: Europe's Monsters" published in the May 26 issue of the London Review of Books. He takes a close look at European politics after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how Putin and other…
Amy Gutmann, U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and founding director of the UCHV, is awarded an honorary degree in 2022 by Princeton University.
Peter Singer was interviewed by correspondent Nuala McGovern for a BBC World Service Newshour documentary that aired on May 21.
Henry Gomory is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research. His research interests include political economy and urban inequality, and his dissertation explores the changing composition of American landlords and the effects this is having on renters. His dissertation work…
Australia’s federal election will take place on May 21 and aged care is a key issue for voters as outlined by Luara Ferracioli, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, who co-authored the article, “Opinion Reform of Australia…
Amid criticism of the United Nations Security Council's inaction on the war in Ukraine, an ABC News journalist interviewed experts who weighed in on the situation; this included Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, and the University Center for…
UCHV awards Short Movie Prize to Collin Riggins '24 as the winner and Ethan Luk '24 for honorable mention.
Elizabeth Cohen interviewed for an article featured in Wired
Luara Ferracioli writes about what it means to belong to a country in the April 4 op-ed published in The Sydney Morning Herald.
UCHV announces newly appointed visitors and returning scholars for the upcoming academic year, 2022-2023.