Kristen R. MonroeDirector, UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, Political Science |
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Research Interests |
Political Psychology and Political Economy with special emphasis on rationality, altruism, genocide, and gender equality | |
| URL | Web site for the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality | |
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Academic Distinctions | Monroe has served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and as Vice President for both the American and the Midwest Political Science Associations. | |
| Appointments | Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow in Econometrics and Political Economy, University of British Columbia | |
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Research Abstract |
Kristen Renwick Monroe is a scholar whose work has changed the field of political psychology, political economy, and normative political theory. Monroe’s award-winning work on altruism and moral choice deals with a central problem in politics and ethics: our treatment of others. Her work provides a valuable counter-point to rational choice theory, suggesting identity constrains choices by limiting the options we find available, not just ethically but cognitively. Monroe is the author of 13 single-authored books or edited volumes and over 50 articles or book chapters. Her awards include a Pulitzer nomination, a National Book Award nomination, and two American Political Science Association best book awards. She has served as the President of the International Society of Political Psychology and Vice-president of the American Political Science Association. Her most recently completed works are a book on ethics in an age of terror and genocide and an edited volume on the relation of science to ethics. She is currently working on several books on topics relating to ethics. These include books on(1) gender equality in academia, (2) Jewish émigrés from the Third Reich, (3) a “different” introduction to political science, and (4) the process by which ordinary people make moral choices. | |
| Publications |
BOOKS [1] The Political Process and Economic Change (Editor). New York: Agathon Press, 1983. [2] Presidential Popularity and the Economy: New York: Praeger, 1984. [3] The Economic Approach to Politics: A Critical Reassessment of the Theory of Rational Action. (Editor). New York: HarperCollins, 1991. [4] Political Economy and Political Psychology. (Editor) Special edition of POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 16, 1 (March 1995). [5] The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 1997 Best Book Award, American Political Science Association, Section on Political Psychology. 1997 Pulitzer Prize nominee. [6] Contemporary Empirical Political Theory. (Editor) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. [7] Political Psychology (Editor). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, November 2002 [8] The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust. 2004. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Winner Robert Lane Award, Honorable Mention Giovanni Sartori Award, APSA. National book Award nominee. [9] Perestroika! The Raucous Revolution in Political Science. (Editor). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. [10] Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues. Co-edited with Ronald B. Miller and Jerome Tobis. University of California Press. 2007. Reviewed in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine. [11] On Behalf of Others: The Psychology of Benevolence in a Global World. Edited volume with C.Kinnvall and Sarah Scuzzarello. Oxford U Press. [12] Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide (working title, under review) [13] Strange Bedfellows? Science and the Study of Ethics (working title, under review) |
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| Grant | MAJOR GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS LaVerne Noyes Fellow, University of Chicago, 1970-72 Killam Fellow, University of British Columbia, 1974-76 Spencer Foundation Grants (2), 1979-82, 2006-8 Exxon Educational Fund Grant, 1981-82 National Science Foundation Grants (2), 1981, 1982 Social Science Research Council of Canada, 1984-85 Earhart Foundation Grants (3), 1985-86, 1989-90, 2000 Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, 1990-1991 Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow, 1991-1992 Center for German and European Studies, 1993 Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, 1995-6, 2005-2006 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1997-8 National Endowment for the Humanities, 1998 Social Science Research Grant, 1999 Earhart Fellow 2000 National Science Foundation 2000 National Science Foundation, SBE Advance Institutional Transformation Award 2001-6 Center for German and European Studies 2002-3 UCI Committee on Research, Computing and Libraries 2002-3 Biosophical Society, 2006-7 California Postsecondary Education 2007-2011 | |
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Professional Society |
Am. Political Science Assn. Internat. Society of Political Psychology |
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| Other Experience |
Director UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality |
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| Research Center | Director, UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientif Study of Ethics and Morality | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4880 | |
| Last updated | 10/30/2009 | |