Sarah Stroud

Director

207A Caldwell Hall
(919) 962-3317
sarah.stroud@unc.edu

Sarah Stroud joined the department in 2018. She was previously Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, where she taught from 1993 to 2018. She holds degrees from Harvard (A.B.) and Princeton (Ph.D.). She works across central areas of moral philosophy, with a particular focus on foundational issues in moral psychology and moral theory and on the intersection of such issues with metaethics and the philosophy of action. She has published papers on such topics as partiality, moral demandingness and overridingness, lying and testimony, practical irrationality, and the moral implications and significance of personal relationships. She co-edited Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (OUP, 2003) and the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Rob Willison

Associate Director

(919) 962-3661
207B Caldwell Hall
willison@email.unc.edu
Personal Website

Rob Willison (PhD 2017, University of Pennsylvania) is Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Parr Center for Ethics. He joined the department in 2017. He is working on the ethics of meaning—a study of the ways that meaning and interpretation, understood as practices, can help and hinder us in our efforts to live well together. He has research interests in social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of social science, philosophy of art, and the history of American Pragmatism.

Katie Bunyea

Program Coordinator

kbunyea@unc.edu
(919) 843-5640
207D Caldwell Hall

Katie studied Media & Culture at The New School in New York, NY. She began her career producing video and social content for MTV News, including the 2007 Presidential Dialogue special with Barack Obama, for which she received an Associate Producer credit. Katie is passionate about producing programming that highlights the unique expertise and perspectives found on our campus.

Steven Swartzer

Outreach Director

swartzer@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3329
207H Caldwell Hall
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Steve received his PhD from the University of Nebraska in 2011; prior to joining UNC, he was a lecturer at the University of Nebraska, and the Assistant Director of Nebraska’s Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics. Steve’s primary research focus is in moral psychology, exploring the viability of anti-Humean views of human motivation that posit besires—beliefs and perceptual states that are capable of being intrinsically motivating. Steve is also interested in issues in political philosophy and the philosophy of law regarding social perceptions of criminality and various official and unofficial penalties (such as the loss of voting rights) that frequently accompany criminal convictions.

Dominique Déry

Director, National High School Ethics Bowl

dkldery@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-2576
207F Caldwell Hall

Dominique received her PhD in political theory from Duke University in 2015. Her dissertation, “Civic Friendship and Democracy: Past and Present Perspectives” focused on several accounts of the meaning and importance of things like care and compassion in healthy and diverse democratic communities. She has worked for Transplanting Traditions Community Farm, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Sally Moore

Administrator

sallybm@live.unc.edu
(919) 843-5641
207 Caldwell Hall

Sally received her BA in Philosophy with a minor in Cognitive Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined the department shortly after her graduation in 2017. Her interests include practical ethics, metaphysics, and the bridge between psychology and philosophy of mind.

Ian Cruise

Graduate Research Assistant

icruise@live.unc.edu
107B Caldwell Hall

Ian is a fourth-year graduate student with research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology. He also has side interests in the history of ethics and political philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University and an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics.

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