Office: HLMS 278
ALISON M. JAGGAR (PhD, Buffalo, 1970) joined the faculty at CU Boulder in 1990 and holds a joint appointment with the聽. She is a聽College Professor of Distinction聽and a Research Coordinator at the聽, University of Oslo, Norway. 聽In 2011, Jaggar won the University of Colorado聽聽for advancing women, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching. In August 2012, Jaggar received聽聽for her exceptional teaching, educational leadership, and service. This award was given by the Graduate Teacher Program in coordination with the School of Education, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Graduate School at CU Boulder.
Areas of Interest: Jaggar works in the areas of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. 聽In 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 鈥淔empov,鈥� 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.聽聽In addition, Jaggar is exploring the potential of a naturalized approach to moral epistemology for addressing moral disputes in contexts of inequality and cultural difference.聽(from )