Jill Stauffer

Biography

Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley

M.A., Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley

B.A., Classical Languages, University of California at Berkeley

Before coming to Haverford College in Fall 2009, Jill Stauffer taught at Amherst College in the department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, and at John Jay College in New York, where she authored the concept paper for John Jay’s new Philosophy major. Her edited volume, Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God, came out on Columbia University Press in 2009. She was resident fellow in the humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2008-9, where she ran a faculty seminar and moderated a series of public events. She has published widely on rights, personal and political responsibility, ethics, and the rule of law. Jill was hired to direct the new concentration in Peace, Justice and Human Rights at Haverford.

Courses: Fall 2009, Haverford

Courses: Spring 2010, Haverford