Kimberley Brownlee

Speaker Bio: 

Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). She is a former Commonwealth Scholar and Fulbright Research Chair. Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, and freedom of association. Her other work focuses on conscience, civil disobedience, punishment, and restorative justice. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other (Oxford, 2020) and Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford, 2012). She is the co-editor of Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights (Oxford, 2022), The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley, 2016) and Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford, 2009).