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.
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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.
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
Values and Public Life certificate students, Ethan Kahn and Natalia Zorrilla have each received invitations to be part of the 2022 cohort of Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
Unpacking the moral duties that Australian citizens have towards vulnerable members of society, Luara Ferracioli, Laurance S.
A guest essay written by Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, Jan-Werner Mueller, discusses Joe Bi
Three faculty connected to UCHV have been named inaugural 2021-2022 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellows, part of the Foundation’s Philosophy in the Media Initiative.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and Human Values Elizabeth Harman wrote the op-ed, “What Amy Coney Barrett doesn’t understand about abortion” published in the December 9 issue of The New York Daily News.
A commentary written by Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, was published in the November 30 edition of Project Syndicate
Confirming that philosophical instruction can influence students’ real- world behavior was a recent conclusion in a study co-investigated by Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values.
The Einstein Lectures 2021 held at the University of Bern in October were given by Philip Pettit, Laurance S.
Gavin Sullivan, visiting fellow at the University Center for Human Values, 2021-2022, and Reader in International Human Rights Law at Edinburgh Law School co-authored the op-ed, “Watchlisting the World: Digital Security Infrastructures, Informal Law, and the ‘Global War on Terror’” in Just Secur
The work of Elizabeth Cohen, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow (Spring 2022), and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, is featured in the September 30 edition of the Washington Post.
The University Center for Human Values joins the wider university community in mourning the death, and celebrating the life, of Albert Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion, Emeritus.
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at the University Center for Human Values Victoria McGeer addressed an entirely online audience when she gave a keynote talk at the 28thConference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology.
Following Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s recent visit to Hungary, where he praised Viktor Orbán as “someone the West could learn from,” The New Yorker turned to Laurance S.
This month the University Center for Human Values welcomes our newest joint faculty member, Emily Greenwood. Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values, Greenwood comes to Princeton from Yale University where she was the John M.
Following the release of his latest book, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics Jan-Werner Mueller was interviewed by The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner about his conception of populism and his take on threats to democracy today, and...
On Thursday, July 8th, The Democracy Institute of Central European University will host a book discussion on Jan-Werner Mueller’s new book "Democracy Rules."
Andrew Chignell, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values, and social psychologist Kitty O’Lone, currently a research fellow at the Woolf Institute (Cambridge), explore the concepts of hope and optimism with Dr.
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values Philip Pettit describes himself as a philosophical generalist as he answers five questions about himself (and more) posed by M.I.T.
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to celebrate the outstanding achievements of three members of the Class of 2021 Values and Public Life (VPL) certificate program.
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values, delivered the Julius Stone Address 2021earlier this month – and in person – at the University of Sydney Law School. The lecture was canceled last spring due to the pandemic.
Amid the Biden Administration’s push for an infrastructure bill that expands the traditional concept of infrastructure, Professor of Politics Jan-Werner Mueller writes in The Guardian that the Biden plan should go a step further and address the nation’s decaying ‘civic...
Following the launch of his Journal of Controversial Ideas late last month, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values Peter Singer was the subject of The New Yorker Interview that week.
The University Center for Human Values is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2021 UCHV Short Movie Prize is Noa Wollstein for “Wednesday at Elizabeth." View the film here and read an interview with Noa Wollstein...