Christia Mercer

Christia Mercer

Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, general editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts, and co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, a book series devoted to making philosophy more inclusive. As a part-time activist, she teaches in prison as part of Columbia University’s Justice-in-Education Initiative and publishes regularly on the need to make higher education more widely available and on justice reform.

Working Group Affiliation

Pedagogies of Dignity, Project Director