CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
April 25, 2013
Kristen Monroe visited CMEI to present on her latest book, A Darkling Plain: Maintaining Humanity During War. She examined some of the psychological dimensions involved in helping individuals to keep their humanity intact despite being caught up in extended periods of conflict.
Speaker Biography:
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 14 single-authored books or edited volumes and over 50 articles or book chapters. Her awards include a Pulitzer nomination, a National Book Award nomination, two American Political Science Association Best Book awards (the Robert Lane Award) and two of the APSA's lifetime achievement awards (the 2010 Goodnow Award and APSA's 2010 Ithiel deSola Pool Award), and the 2010 Paul Silverman Award for Outstanding Work in Ethics. She has served as the President of the International Society of Political Psychology and Vice-president of the American Political Science Association.
