Gina Schouten

Gina Schouten is a Professor of Philosophy, with research interests in social and political philosophy and ethics. She writes about justice and legitimacy, and about how liberal egalitarian theory can help us respond better to injustice. She tends to think about these matters with a focus on economic, gender, and educational injustice. 
Her 2024 book, The Anatomy of Justice (OUP), forwards an approach to theorizing about justice that makes the theory more helpful for addressing injustice. Her 2019 book, Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor (OUP), argues that social policy aimed at eroding the gendered division of labor can comply with stringent liberal constraints on legitimate exercises of political power, and that this capacity yields interesting insights about those constraints. 
Other work-in-progress includes a coauthored book on equal educational opportunity for the History and Philosophy of Education book series, a book on feminism and political liberalism for the Cambridge Elements series, various papers on non-ideal theory in political philosophy, and a project of unknown form on the moral and political significance of home. 

Professor Schouten was a Faculty Associate from 2016 until her appointment to the Faculty Committee in 2024. She was also a Fellow in Residence in 2018-2019.