Alisa L. Carse, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a Teaching Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her teaching and research are centered in moral philosophy, social and political theory, moral psychology, and gender theory. Her current research explores cultural, moral, and political subordination and its antidotes. She is interested in particular in exploring the moral-psychological and existential repercussions of subordination for individual and group identity, effective agency, self-respect, and the affiliative virtues, especially as they bear on questions of justice, morally healthy forms of sociality and solidarity, and individual flourishing.

Prof. Carse has been the recipient of National Mellon Humanities Fellowships (1983-5, 1987-8) (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), a Mellon Junior Faculty Research Fellowship 1994, and named a Mellon Summer Scholar 1995. She was a Senior Research Fellow at The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Fall 1989-Spring 2001, a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and The Institute for Political Philosophy, Universität Tübingen in Germany, a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy Institute, Spring-Summer 2000 and a Fellow of The Society for Values in Higher Education (1987-2002). In Spring 2004, she served as a CoRAL Fellow, Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University and The Community Research and Learning Network, Washington, DC.