Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Mathias Risse is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy.
He works mostly in social and political philosophy and in ethics. Risse
studied philosophy, mathematics, and mathematical economics at the University
of Bielefeld, the University of Pittsburgh, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
and Princeton University (from where he received his PhD in philosophy).
Before coming to Harvard he taught in the Department of Philosophy and
the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale. His articles have
appeared in journals such as Ethics; Philosophy and Public Affairs; Nous;
Journal of Political Philosophy; and Social Choice and Welfare. Risse's
primary research area is global justice, and he is currently writing a
book tentatively called The Grounds of Justice: An Essay on Global Political
Philosophy. Risse also has a strong secondary research interest in German
19th and 20th century philosophy, especially Nietzsche. He is affiliated
with the Center for Ethics and the Carr Center.
