Education

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

Biography

Before coming to Haverford College to create a new interdisciplinary human rights theory program for undergraduates, Jill Stauffer taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts in the department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, and in the Philosophy department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY in New York. Stauffer is on the Board of Directors for the non-profit book series Voice of Witness, which illuminates human rights crises through the stories of the men and women who live through them. Her academic interests include philosophy of law, political philosophy, continental philosophy, and ethics. She has published widely on the international reach of rights, personal and political responsibility, political reconciliation, and the rule of law. Her edited volume, Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God, was published by Columbia University Press in 2009. Her book Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard was published by Columbia University Press in 2015.

Columbia University Press: Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard

An interview with Stauffer about Ethical Loneliness: http://www.cupblog.org/?p=17545