Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Eric Beerbohm

• Lab Committee, 2009-
• Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
• Director, Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship Program, 2010-

Eric Beerbohm is Associate Professor of Government and the Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University and Director of Graduate Fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of distributive justice, and the philosophy of social science. He is currently working on a theory of democratic lawmaking, including principles that bear on legislative compromise, obstructionism, and political leadership. His book, In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2012), considers the responsibility of citizens for for political injustice. He has also written on the implications of moral uncertainty for political decision-making, the demandingness of deliberative democracy, and the moral risks imposed by anti-egalitarian social policies. A Marshall Scholar and Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008, B.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University, and BA in Political Science and the Program in Ethics in Society from Stanford University. He was a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics in 2008-2009. He is a recipient of the 2012 Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to two Harvard faculty in Arts and Sciences for "excellence and sensitivity in undergraduate teaching."

Email | Ph: 617.495.2261

Ari Borensztein

• Staff, 2012-

Ari Borensztein is the executive assistant to Lawrence Lessig. Ari joined the Center in June 2012 after graduating from Yale University with a BA in literature, focusing on the fiction of Milan Kundera and Philip Roth. A serious classical pianist, Ari has performed extensively as a founding member of the Temple Street Trio. His musical travels have taken him to festivals around North America, including the Banff Centre in Alberta, Yale's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford. Ari is interested in preserving the relevance of "classical" music in modern society and enjoys French cinema, great books, and Argentine culture.

Email | Ph: 617.496.1124

Heidi Carrell

• Staff, 2013-

Stephanie Dant

• Staff, 2005-

Stephanie came to the Center in May 2005 as assistant to Dennis Thompson. Prior to joining the Center, she worked in the world of scientific publishing where she found a new appreciation for neurons, cells and molecules and the scientists who write about such things. As for her own interests and curiosities, she finds music, music history, and travel most interesting. Future goals, some less immediate than others, include learning to cook and play a musical instrument (though not at the same time), living abroad and dedicating time to volunteerism.

Katy Evans Pritchard

• Staff, 2013-

Katy joined the Center for Ethics in 2013, after four years as an administrator at Boston University. She holds a BA in Literature from Boston College, an MA in Literary Theory from Kings College London, and is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Boston University. When not at the Center, you can find her experimenting in the kitchen or volunteering at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.