Professor Martha Nussbaum FBA

Political and moral philosophy: the nature of the emotions; the ‘capabilities approach’ to social and global justice; related work in the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Philosophy, Politics

Current post

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ayse Zarakol FBA

International Relations & historical sociology; East-West relations, history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, social hierarchies in world politics, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective.

Ayse Zarakol FBA

Professor Stuart Elden FBA

The history, concept and practice of territory; contemporary territorial and boundary disputes and geopolitics; political and social theory; the history of geographical and political thought

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Professor Vivienne Shue FBA

Chinese politics and society in the 20th and 21st centuries; political economy of development, institutions and practices of the state, local governance, and patterns of state-society interaction

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