Alison M. Jaggar (PhD, Buffalo, 1970) joined the faculty at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø in 1990 and holds a joint appointment with the . She is a  and a Research Coordinator at the , University of Oslo, Norway.  In 2011, Jaggar won the University of Colorado  for advancing women, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching.
Areas of Interest: Jaggar works in the areas of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective.  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 "," 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.  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.
Current Research: Recent and forthcoming books include  (Â鶹¹ÙÍø, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008), , with Michael Tooley, Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine (Oxford University Press, 2009);  (Polity 2010), and Gender and Global Justice (Polity 2013). She is also planning a co-authored book on Ethics Across Borders.
For more information, see Professor Jaggar's .