AlisonÌýJaggar

  • Professor Emerita
  • College Professor of Distinction
Address

Hellems 278

Office Hours

MW 4:15-5:15 and by appointment

overview

Alison M. Jaggar (PhD, Buffalo, 1970) joined the faculty at CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó in 1990 and holds a joint appointment with the . She is a and a 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Coordinator at the , University of Oslo, Norway. ÌýIn 2011, Jaggar won the 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó for advancing women, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching.

Areas of Interest: Jaggar works in the areas of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. ÌýIn the past decade, her work has introduced gender as a category of analysis into the philosophical debate on global justice. Currently, Jaggar is a member of a "," a multi-disciplinary and international research team whose aim is to produce a new poverty standard or metric capable of revealing the gendered dimensions of global poverty.ÌýÌýIn addition, Jaggar is exploring the potential of a naturalized approach to moral epistemology for addressing moral disputes in contexts of inequality and cultural difference.

Current 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó: Recent and forthcoming books include (91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008), , with Michael Tooley, Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine (Oxford University Press, 2009); (Polity 2010), and Gender and Global Justice (Polity 2013). She is also planning a co-authored book on Ethics Across Borders.

Professor Jaggar retired in 2020. See the news article here.

For more information, see Professor Jaggar's CV.

Please find an appreciation of Professor Jaggar’s scholarly work and teaching here.