The Exchange, Fall 2010 - 2010 Brings New Growth & Opportunity

2010 Brings New Growth & Opportunity

Welcome to the Murphy Institute and to this year’s Exchange . As the new Executive Director who came on board just this past January, I was pleased to find that all I had been told ahead of time was indeed true: the Murphy Institute is a vibrant organization that contributes greatly to the intellectual life of Tulane and, more broadly, to the advancement of the study of political economy in all its dimensions.

Building on these strong foundations, my goal as director is to enhance the Murphy Institute through three overlapping programs that all reinforce each other.

Our first program that identifies the Murphy Institute on campus and to its undergraduates is our undergraduate major in Political Economy. One of Tulane’s most popular interdisciplinary majors, its students engage in serious study of economics, politics, and philosophy. They study with some of Tulane’s finest professors who are all dedicated to the goals of a broad, interdisciplinary education that examines social problems from a variety of dimensions. This year we made a few changes to strengthen the program. We added some additional faculty members from Tulane to enhance the teaching of the core classes of the program.

c ore f aculty and s taff

Steven M. Sheffrin, Executive Director, Department of Economics

Bruce Brower, Department of Philosophy

Alison Denham, Department of Philosophy

Eric Mack, Department of Philosophy

Douglas R. Nelson, Department of Economics

Mary K. Olson, Department of Economics

Jonathan M. Riley, Department of Philosophy

David Shoemaker, Department of Philosophy

Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Department of History

Martyn P. Thompson, Department of Political Science

Mark Vail, Department of Political Science

John Louis Howard, Associate Director

Ruth A. Carter, Program Manager

f aculty c ommittee

Bruce Brower

Ronna Burger, Department of Philosophy

Alison Denham

Richard Culbertson, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Stephen Griffin, School of Law

Graham Owen, School of Architecture

Eric Mack

Mary K. Olson

Jonathan M. Riley

Oliver Sensen, Department of Philosophy

David Shoemaker

Richard F. Teichgraeber III

Martyn P. Thompson

We also added some new advanced courses in political philosophy and economics for our majors. finally, we added a new track to the major, Economics and Public Policy. students in this track will obtain more exposure to the methods and techniques of analytical work in public policy, building on their foundation of interdisciplinary study.

Our second program and one that brings national and international recognition to Tulane is The c enter for Ethics and Public Affairs. The c enter is devoted to the social and ethical dimensions of public affairs with an emphasis on the scholarly discussion of ethics and moral and political philosophy across a wide range of disciplines, intellectual perspectives, and schools. Each year, the c enter hosts three or more faculty fellows, who spend the year in residence and interact with Tulane faculty and visitors. The c enter also cultivates a rich intellectual environment for both Tulane and the community through a series of very popular faculty seminars and lectures.

Our third program is a developing new initiative to create programs to encourage the study of public policy. In the past, we have held conferences relating to both domestic and international policy issues. We are now expanding these efforts by embarking on a series of programs and initiatives to encourage the study and practice of public policy at Tulane. We have created new seed grant programs for faculty initiatives and are developing new public policy internship opportunities for our students. In addition, we are hosting lectures on public policy, bringing national issues to the local context, and working with faculty to develop working groups on important public policy issues, with our first Working Group in health policy.

c enter Administration

Margaret M. Keenan, Assistant Director

As you read through this year’s Exchange , which highlights some of our activities and the accomplishments of our students and alumni, feel free to share with us any of your news, thoughts, or ideas. Our goal is to use our three programs—an undergraduate interdisciplinary social science major, a c enter to reflect on the moral and ethical bases of social systems, and programs to encourage the rigorous analysis of public policy—to make the Murphy Institute into a one-of-a-kind intellectual center, not just for Tulane but for the nation.

steven M. sheffrin Executive Director

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2010

The undergraduate program showed steady growth this year and the number of majors increased to eighty-six. The Murphy Institute also conducted a complete review of the existing curriculum and we were able to identify new courses to add to our existing tracks and to retire some older courses that had become dormant. These changes will improve and sustain the quality of our existing tracks and allow majors more choice and flexibility in their course scheduling.

The most exciting news for the undergraduate program is the creation of a new public policy track in the major. The new track is designated PEPP— Political Economy: Economics and Public Policy. The centerpiece for the new track will be Prof. sheffrin’s PEcn 4300 course, Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. We are pleased to present the complete curriculum for the new track:

Economics and Public Policy Track (PEPP)

c ourses in this concentration allow majors to explore the role of economic thinking in policy evaluation. This concentration is designed to give majors a strong grounding in quantitative methods and analysis for an increased technical understanding of policy issues.

rE quir E d

Economics

3230 Economic statistics and regression

c hoos E Two of T h E following s EVE n

Economics

3020 Intermediate Macroeconomics

3100 Economics of Money and Banking

3320 urban Economics

3330 Environment and natural resources

3810 The Economics of l abor

3830 Economics of Gender

3970/3980 special studies in Economics

c hoos E Two of T h E following E l EVE n

Economics

4230 Econometrics

4300 regulation

4500 health Economics

4520 Economics of Public Expenditures

4530 Economics of Taxation

4600 Inequality and Poverty in l atin America

4610 Game Theory

Political Economy

4300 Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Political Science

3240 Public Policy

4230 Environmental Politics and Policy

4800 s cience, Technology and Public Policy

Michael McPherson (Chair), President, Spencer Foundation

John Ferejohn, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, New York University

Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center

Bonnie Honig, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

T h E Exch A n GE

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n E wcomb- T ulan E coll E g E s E niors w E r E award E d b . a . d E gr EE s in P oli T ical E conomy

a T T h E m ay 2010 u ni VE rsi T y c omm E nc E m E n T . s everal received high academic honors: kirs TE n hill and cory king graduated summa cum laude ; m E gan cox and sara sands graduated magna cum laude .

Other members of the class of 2010 include al E na and E rson, amna bajwa, E il EE n collins, cai T lin conl E y, jam E s cron V ich, Pa T rick E s T ill, john fabros, br E ndan fink E , saman T ha fox, amy hsu, andr E w khosrofian, ka T h E rin E l E blanc, jos EP h luf T, john mcclam, E rn E s T o P osadas, ali skaif E , laura T akada, jan E alic E T aylor, jing jia zang, and carolin E zins E r.

The charles h. Murphy Prize in Political Economy was awarded to kirs TE n hill and cory king . The Murphy Institute Award for Public s ervice was presented to kirs TE n hill

cory king graduated with a double major in Political Economy and Economics. he was recognized as a s enior honors s cholar. his honors thesis was “Medicaid and l ongterm health c are”. c ory participated in the undergraduate PPE colloquium hosted by Duke university and the university of north c arolina.

kirs TE n hill graduated with a double major in Political Economy and Philosophy. she was recognized as a s enior honors s cholar and she was the winner of the Oak Wreath award, bestowed by the newcomb Memorial college Institute upon seniors who have distinguished themselves through an engaged pursuit of learning, leadership in student activities, and contribution to the newcomb/Tulane community. Kirsten was an undergraduate Public s ervice fellow for the past two years and she was a reading tutor at Benjamin Banneker Elementary s chool for the past four years. she also created and facilitated a reading program for l afayette charter

Academy and she is the founder of sI l A (students Improving l iteracy Abound), an educational non-profit devoted to reading instruction and educational reform. Kirsten is the national l ead Policy strategist for education for the roosevelt Institute and served on the advisory boards for Tulane’s c enter for Public s ervice and the c owen Institute for Public Education Initiatives. Kirsten’s honors thesis was “All children Move forward: r econstructing Education Policy through Experiential l earning”. s he will pursue a master’s degree in Education Policy at the university of Pennsylvania.

sara sands graduated with a double major in Political Economy and English. she also won the Oak Wreath award. her honors thesis was “composing in codes: White Teachers, Black students, and the role of Black English in the c omposition classroom”. she will attend c ambridge university in the u K to pursue a master’s degree in Education Policy.

m E gan cox graduated with a double major in Political Economy and Political s cience. her honors thesis was “ non-partisan Primaries and c andidate Platforms in l ouisiana and Mississippi” for which she won the s . Walter stern 1905 Memorial Medal presented by the Department of Political s cience. Megan was a member of Mortar Board national s enior honor s ociety. she will attend law school at Willamette university.

amy hsu and ali skaif E will attend law school at c ornell university.

ka T h E rin E l E blanc has accepted an executive management position with Abercrombie & fitch.

jan E alic E T aylor will attend law school at Tulane university.

jing jia zang will work as an energy trader for c onocoPhillips in houston, Texas.

T h E undE rgraduaTE Program in Poli T ical Economy con T inu E s To flourish.

In May 2010, there were eighty-six majors in the program; fifty-five finished the year with grade point averages above 3.4; thirty-two with 3.6 or higher; seventeen with 3.8 or higher. four seniors graduated with grade point averages of 3.6 or higher.

clair E drak E ‘11 is a member of the 2010 newcomb Daisy chain and was a public service intern at the World Affairs c ouncil of new Orleans. s he is the president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

luk E galford ’11 is the vice-president of s ocial and Economic r ights Advocates (sE r A), a new Orleans non-profit organization.

ann da V is ’12 is the Executive Director of Wild and Water s wimming, a regional non-profit founded by laura white ’12.

jack m E lam E d ’12 is a political columnist for the Hullabaloo .

ashl E y mo TT a ’12 is the volunteer coordinator for homeless and hunger Action Team at Tulane (h ATT).

ka TE lyn small E y ’12 is a member of the Ashokau c hangemaker campus team sponsored by the Office of social Entrepreneurship Initiatives.

laura whi TE ’12 is a member of the Ashokau changemaker c ampus team sponsored by the Office of s ocial Entrepreneurship Initiatives and a policy strategist for the roosevelt Institute.

zachary schr E ib E r ’13 is a student manager for the Tulane men’s basketball team and the president of the Tulane student chapter of the American civil l iberties union. PO l ITI c A l E c O n OM y P r OG r AM ’10 ]

T h E judi T h k E ll E h E r schaf E r summ E r in TE rnshi P gran T Program

f unds from the Judith Kelleher s chafer summer Internship Grant program were used to endow 14 fellowships in the amount of $2,000 each for summer 2010. The students receiving the funds, along with their graduating class, hometown and internship placements are:

ann da V is ’12 from Pewaukee, WI will intern at Wild & Water swimming, in new Orleans, l A.

william d’a VE lla ’11 from farmington, c T will intern at the Office of the District Attorney in new Orleans, l A.

br E nnan foxman ’12 from linwood, n J will intern as a research assistant for Dr. Jim Walsh at MIT.

wanru jing ’12 from shanghai, china will intern at IBM in her home town.

naomi mar T in ’11 from newton, MA will intern at The Daily Get up in Washington, Dc

T homas n E whous E ’11 from Alexandria, vA will intern at the national republican c ongressional c ommittee in Washington, Dc

william n E w T on ’11 from Philadelphia, PA will intern in the Office of rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), in Washington, Dc

E ric PETE rson ’12 from Woodstock, Il will intern at the Office of the Governor for the state of Illinois in springfield, Il

yingjia wan ’12 from n anjing, china will intern at the Bank of china in her home town.

s TEP hani E s TE fanski ’12 from fishkill, ny will intern as a research associate for Dr. Julio Bardi at the universidad del salvador and Payson c enter of Tulane u niversity in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

mark s T r E lla ’12 from Bethesda, MD will intern at Bethesda Green in his home town and at the District Department of the Environment in Washington, Dc .

P aul s T . clair ’12 from fayetteville, A r will intern at The Parquet Group in Orlando, fl

laura whi TE ’12 from Johns creek, GA will intern at The r oosevelt Institute in Washington, Dc .

Class of 1987

E ric T ow E ll will be leaving his post as an International Baccalaureate economics and theory of knowledge teacher at The Prem Tinsulanonda International s chool in c hiang Mai, Thailand. he will spend the next year traveling in Asia.

Class of 1990

br E nda T hrow E r works for the y bor city Development c orporation, a division of the c ity of Tampa and a non-profit organization that manages y bor c ity, Tampa’s national h istoric l andmark District and its two community redevelopment areas.

Class of 1993

robin f E inb E rg lives in los Angeles and works as an Executive Producer for a variety of r eality Television shows. lara g E ll E r is now the new Director of Planning and fiscal Management for the Macon Police Department and has relocated from s outh f lorida to Macon, GA. After 12 years as the President of the Tulane Alumni club of south f lorida she hopes to start up a Tulane Alumni c lub of Middle Georgia.

Class of 1995

da V id j. sas is a Pediatric nephrologist on faculty at the Medical university of s outh c arolina in charleston.

ALUMNI NEWS

Class of 1996

P aul gr EE ns P an is a Director with the Dispute Analysis & forensic s ervices practice of Alvarez & Marsal, a leading international professional services firm.

Class of 1997

suzann E T aylor is s enior v ice President of Public Policy for the Arizona c hamber of c ommerce and Industry, Arizona’s leading business advocacy organization at the state capitol.

Class of 1999

zara wa T kins practices commercial and bankruptcy litigation as an Of c ounsel Associate at a variety of small law firms around new york city. she also regularly teaches yoga to private students, group classes, and groups of employees at law firms.

Class of 2000

r E ub E n hal PE r lives in london and works for Google as a Program Manager in their c reative s ervices group.

Class of 2007

Class of 2001

T yl E r holm completed his MBA from The c ollege of William & Mary in August 2009 while serving as the supply Officer at sEA l Delivery vehicle Team Two in norfolk, vA. he has since departed military service and works as a senior consultant for Booz Allen hamilton in the Washington Dc metro area. chris T o P h E r P i ETE rs E n has joined first reserve c orporation as a v ice President for c o-Investment and fundraising. he will work out of the firm’s l ondon office, and previously was a senior v ice President at Eaton Partners in l ondon where he was responsible for Private Equity for Europe.

Class of 2004

dani E l j. E rs P am E r joined state Policy network as the organization’s v ice President for Development. he and his wife, Emily (law ‘04) and daughter Olivia live in Murfreesboro, T n V ikram V ij is an Assistant criminal District Attorney in Galveston c ounty, Texas.

Class of 2005

andr E w gall is a Democratic candidate for c ongress in Maryland’s f ifth District. juli E ni E mczura d E car V alho lives in c harlottesville, v A. s he is a r esearch s pecialist for Western h emisphere Affairs with c oncepts & s trategies, Inc. and is pursuing a Masters degree in Global h ealth at the u niversity of v irginia.

P aul k E llogg graduated with honors from the university of chicago l aw s chool. he will be participating in a one-year fellowship at the Orleans Public Defenders office in new Orleans before returning to his law firm in Boston, r opes and Gray. aaron mar T in graduated from American university with a Masters degree in International Affairs, c omparative and r egional studies in s eptember 2009. ch E a ma T h E rn E has been with Pricewaterhousec oopers since s eptember 2009, after graduating from DePaul u niversity’s Kellstadt Graduate s chool of Business with a Masters in Accountancy. E mily mcra E is spending the summer based in suva, fiji, as the financial c ompetency Building Intern for the united nations Pacific financial Inclusion Program. she has completed the first year of the Johns hopkins university s chool of Advanced International s tudies Masters degree program in Bologna, Italy, and in the fall she will begin the second year of the program in Washington, Dc .

Class of 2008

lucas carlson will start medical school at the university of Maryland in the fall. he coordinated Operation smile’s volunteer disaster relief teams in haiti and also led surgical programs in c ambodia, Egypt, and India.

Class of 2009

T homas baron E teaches at Isidore newman s chool in new Orleans. After spending a year as a 4th grade coteacher, he will spend the 2010-2011 year as the director of the after school program in the lower school. daria k E s TE r is with the Peace c orps and teaches English and Mathematics in a small village in eastern namibia. E ric la V in is with Teach for America and is a 9th grade c ivics teacher in helena, Arkansas. jacqu E lin E mabry is a r esearch Analyst in the Development Department at Tulane university.

honors, awards & select publications

r onna b urg E r , Professor and c hair of the Philosophy Department, was awarded the s chool of l iberal Arts faculty r esearch Award for 2009-2010. h er book, Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics ( university of c hicago, 2008) received a P r O s E Book Award h onorable Mention in 2009.

m ary o lson , Associate Professor and c hair of the Economics Department, was invited to present a paper at a special conference at h arvard u niversity l aw s chool called “ l egal and r egulatory Issues in Pharmaceutical r esearch and Development,” on June 12-13, 2009. h er paper was titled “ f irst Drug l aunches in the u s . and Drug s afety.” In addition, her article “PDufA and Initial u s . Drug l aunches,” was published in the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 15 (2009).

Eric m ack , Professor of Philosophy, published a book on John Locke c ontinuum Publishing, 2009) as well as “What is l eft in l eft- l ibertarianism?,” in Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice, teve DeWijze, Mathew h . Kramer, and Ian c arter, eds. ( r outledge, 2009), and “The n atural r ight of Property,” Social Philosophy and Policy 27 (2010).

lison dE nham , Associate Professor of Philosophy, has an edited volume, Plato on Art , forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan. s he also published “The f uture of Tonality,” British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2009).

ouglas nE lson contributed “The Political Economy of Protection” to the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy (Princeton university Press, 2009) and published (with David Greenaway) “The Politics of (Anti-)Globalization: What Do We l earn from s imple Models?” Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific, n oel Gaston and Ahmed Khalid, eds (Edward Elgar, 2010).

The Tulane honors Program designated j ohn l ouis h oward , Associate Director of the Murphy Institute, as the 2009-2010 h onors Professor of the year. howard was nominated by Political Economy graduating senior Kirsten h ill.

For complete information on research published by Murphy Institute faculty in 2009-2010, please visit our website at http://murphy.tulane.edu/people/.

j ona T han r il E y , Professor of Philosophy, published “Mill’s Extraordinary utilitarian Moral Theory”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 9 (2010) and “The Interpretation of Maximizing utilitarianism,” Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (2009). The latter was also published in Utilitarianism: The Aggregation Question , E. f. Paul, f.D. Miller, Jr., and J. Paul, eds. (c ambridge university Press, 2009).

r ichard c ulb E r T son , Professor of h ealth s ervices Management, was named 2010 faculty Member of the year by the graduating masters’ class in h ealth s ervices Management. h e published (with s chiou, s c .r . c ampbell, and r . horswell) “ use of the Emergency Department for l ess- urgent c are among Type 2 Diabetics under a Disease Management Program,” BCM Health Services Research 9 (2009) and (with J.M. n aessens, c r c ampbell, J.M. huddleston, B.P. Berg, J.J. l efante, and A. r . Williams) “A c omparison of h ospital Adverse Events by Three Widely used Detection Methods,” International Journal for Quality in Health Care 21 (2009).

d a V id s ho E mak E r , Associate Professor of Philosophy, completed a book, Personal Identity & Ethics: A Brief Introduction (Broadview Press, 2009) and published “ s elf-Exposure and Exposure of the s elf: Informational Privacy and the Presentation of Identity,” Ethics and Information Technology 12 (2010), as well as “ r esponsibility and Disability,” Metaphilosophy 40 (2009). The latter was reprinted as “ r esponsibility, Agency, and c ognitive Disability,” in Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy , Eva feder Kittay and l icia c arlson, eds. (WileyBlackwell, 2010).

sTEVE n m s h E ffrin , Executive Director of the Murphy Institute and Professor of Economics, contributed “ fairness in Market value Taxation,” to Challenging The Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax , eds. r . Bahl, J. Martinez and J. youngman (Institute for l and Policy, 2010) and published “Tax r eform c ommissions in the s weep of c alifornia’s f iscal h istory,” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 37 (2010).

m ar T yn Thom P son co-edited the seventeenth volume of Politisches Denken Jahrbuch (Duncker & humblot, 2009) a series of annual collections of essays which plots change and continuity in German political theory since reunification in 1991.

h anse Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced s tudy awarded a 2009-2010 fellowship to m ark Vail , Assistant Professor of Political s cience, for the purpose of research in Delmenhorst Germany. vail also wrote a book, Recasting Welfare Capitalism: Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany (Temple university Press, 2010) as well as “ l eft of Eden: The c hanging Politics of Economic Inequality in c ontemporary Germany,” German Politics 18 (2009) and “Bending the r ules: Institutional Analysis, Political c hange and l abor-Market r eform in Advanced Industrial s ocieties,” Comparative Politics 42 (2009).

2010 y ATE s l E c T ur E

G l E nn c. l O ury

“obama is no king: on the fracturing of the black prophetic tradition”

Professor l oury of Brown university, perhaps the most prominent AfricanAmerican economist today, spoke on the tensions in Obama’s presidency of representing the aspirational hopes of African Americans and the reality of governing. Although Professor l oury did not wish to “blame” Obama for not advancing more dramatic ideas in his presidency on topics such as civil rights or incarceration politics, his talk could be viewed as a critique of Obama from the left. It was also a sober warning to those who sought to portray Obama as a transformational and messianic figure.

Over 200 people attended the talk. Attendees included faculty from all over campus, students from Tulane, including students in political economy, as well as faculty and students from other colleges in n ew Orleans.

leading to very high-level discussions of the most recent thought about ethics.”

lectures

Ch A r L e S

Butterw O rth

e meritus professor of Government and politics, u niversity of Maryland

Alfarabi’s Goal: Political Philosophy, not Political Theology

C AM p B e LL Grey

Assistant professor of Classical Studies, u niversity of pennsylvania

Urban Poverty, Charity and Conversion in Late Antique Asia Minor

conferences

2010 PPE C ON f ERENCE : COMPLE x IT y IN SOCIET y

S CO tt e . pAG e

Leonid hurwicz Collegiate professor of Complex Systems, political Science, and economics, u niversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor

A Complexity Perspective on Institutional Design

Steve N Dur LA uf

kenneth J. Arrow professor of economics, u niversity of wisconsin, Madison

Complexity, Economics, and Public Policy

Le SL ie M A r S h

Assistant Director, New e ngland institute for Cognitive Science and evolutionary Studies

Cognitive Closure and Social Complexity

k evi N zOLLMAN

Assistant professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon u niversity

Social Network Structure and the Achievement of Consensus

rOB ert Geyer

rOB ert hANNA profesor of philosophy, u niversity of Colorado at Boulder

Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World

Ni NA Si LB er professor of history at Boston u niversity Why Gender Matters for the Civil War

professor of politics, Complexity and policy, Lancaster u niversity ( uk) Integrating Complexity into the Policy World

profiles of faculty fellows

riChArD f. teiChGr AeBer iii , professor of history at tulane university, required no time to get acquainted with New Orleans. well-known as one of tulane’s most dedicated and dynamic teachers, teichgraeber joined the tulane faculty in 1979 and served as Director of the Murphy institute from 1984 to 2009.

teichgraeber, who had not taken a sabbatical in a dozen years, was especially appreciative of the time his fellowship gave him to devote to his research: “time may be the scarcest commodity in professional academic life, especially at institutions that prize scholarship. the most useful service the Center provides its f aculty fellows is ample time to pursue their research and writing.” A Center faculty fellowship allowed teichgraeber to finish a monograph, Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910, forthcoming from the u niversity of South Carolina press, and to write “the Arrival of ‘up-or-Out tenure’: James B. Conant and the ‘tempest at harvard,’ 1937-39,” an essay which will eventually become a book. he also completed a review essay, “Beyond ‘Academicization’: the postwar American university and intellectual history” for the journal Modern Intellectual History. in speaking of his essays, teichgraeber notes that they “represent efforts to fill in some big blank spots in our understanding of tenure… Most people outside of the academy think of ‘tenure’ simply as a matter of universities providing professors with life-long jobs, and as long as ‘tenure’ is understood in that way i am quite sure it will be subject to attack and criticism.”

in the coming academic year, teichgraeber will again direct his energies to teaching courses for the Murphy institute’s political economy program, the Department of history, and the honors program.

On a sunny day in April 2010, Mi C h A e L M O eh L er took a rare break from writing to discuss his fellowship experience, and the conversation shifted towards k ant. k antians, Moehler explained, experience freedom by imposing rules on themselves. Such is Moehler’s personal philosophy—a philosophy that he noted both New Orleans and the Center share. New Orleans, he said, allows residents to lose themselves in a myriad of cultural activities, to become completely engrossed in work, or to seek their own balance between work and play. Moehler was pleased to find the dynamic at the Center to be very much in the same vein. “i was free to attend reading groups, or not, free to have lunch with the fellows and other tulane faculty on some days, and on other days to devote every hour to research.”

Moehler, who proved one of the Center’s most enthusiastic faculty Seminar members, also took part in the weekly kantian reading group organized by Oliver Sensen and attended by faculty fellows Anne Margaret Baxley and Alan thomas, and Graduate fellow Brian walters. A hobbesian who seeks a kantian conclusion in his latest research, Moehler found that both the reading group and the seminar benefited his work. his main research project, entitled “Minimal Morality,” comprises several journal articles. One of these articles, “the (Stabilized) Nash Bargaining Solution as a principle of Distributive Justice,” originally presented as a paper at the Center faculty Seminar, is forthcoming from Utilitas. During his stay at the Center, Moehler also published (with Geoffrey Brennan) an entry entitled “Neoclassical economics,” in volume ii of Encyclopedia of Political Theory (ed. Mark Bevir, Sage publications, 2010), as well as two journal articles: “Justice and peaceful Cooperation,” Journal of Global Ethics, 5 (2009) and “ why hobbes’ State of Nature is Best Modeled by an Assurance Game,” Utilitas, 21 (2009).

Moehler will continue his scholarly career at virginia tech, where he is appointed visiting Assistant professor of philosophy.

fACULT y fELLOWS

A NN e M A r GA ret B A x L ey

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis

Mi C h A e L M O eh L er

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Tech

r i C h A r D f t ei C h G r A e B er iii Professor of History, Tulane University

A LAN t h OMAS

Professor of Ethics and Director, Tilburg Hub for Ethics and Social Philosophy, Tilburg University

G RADUATE fELLOWS

Mi L e S D OL e AC Department of History

N ANC y St OC kt ON Department of History

Sh Aw N w e LNAC k Department of Philosophy

Bri AN wALter S Department of Philosophy

During her fellowship year, A NN e M A r GA ret B A x L ey , an expert on the work of immanuel kant, completed a book, Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy (Cambridge university press, 2010), and began a new book project, “happiness and its value in kant’s ethics.” few scholars, according to Baxley, pay attention to what kant had to say about the relationship between ethics and happiness, and yet for kant, all human beings have two ends—one is to be morally good, and the other is to promote your own happiness.

happiness seems an especially apt topic for Baxley, who brimmed with excitement whenever she discussed her research, living in New Orleans, and the intellectual life at the Center. while at the Center, she particularly welcomed the chance to connect with another leading k ant scholar, tulane’s Oliver Sensen. Baxley and Sensen, along with Lara Denis of Agnes Scott College, now plan to edit a book of twelve articles which focus on kant’s Lectures on ethics.

Baxley especially enjoyed discovering New Orleans: “New Orleans is full of surprises, and you don’t need to enter the french Quarter to experience these. you can encounter a local character at the grocery store or a genuine Jewish deli on Magazine St. with one of the best reubens you have ever eaten.”

As her fellowship ended, Baxley felt “reinvigorated” and “ready to teach and take part in faculty life” at washington university in St. Louis where she is Associate professor of philosophy and Director of undergraduate Studies.

fACULT y fELLOWS

Si MON C AB u L e A M Ay

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Tech

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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Mikh A i L vALDMAN

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University

G RADUATE fELLOWS

Me L i SSA Be S ke Department of Anthropology

Mi C h AeL fALGO u S t Department of Philosophy

t r Avi S Mu L r Oy Department of Philosophy

when A LAN t h OMAS arrived in New Orleans from the uk in the autumn of 2009, he made a prediction: the Saints would win the Super Bowl in 2010. “Careful,” the Murphy i nstitute staff warned him, “the Saints will break your heart. No other team can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the Saints.” thomas, who has been a Saints fan since 2008 when the team played in London’s wembley Stadium, was as delighted to be proven right as we were to be proven wrong.

f ootball aside, t homas thoroughly enjoyed his year in New Orleans “a city unlike any other in the uS.” Above all, he valued the research atmosphere provided by the Center and his colleagues shared an especially high opinion of him. his seminar presentation on the “Neo-Marxist Critique of rawlsian Liberalism” displayed a truly penetrating intellect. thomas relished the opportunity to interact with so many faculty working in ethics and moral and political philosophy, and noted that few departments can boast so many faculty members in these areas. especially important was the time his fellowship gave him for research on his project, “ethics in the first person” a monograph study of first personal thinking in ethics. the topics covered range from the individual’s involvement in practical decisions to whether or not it matters whether a particular person is the individual who performs a moral action.

After completing his fellowship, thomas took up a new position as professor of ethics and Director of the tilburg hub for ethics and Social philosophy at tilburg university in the Netherlands.