Professor Andrea Sangiovanni

Andrea Sangiovanni is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. His main areas of research are in contemporary moral, legal, and political philosophy. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard University. Before joining the Philosophy Department at KCL (in 2007), he was a Randall Dillard Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (2005-2007). From 2018-2020, he was Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Fiesole. He is currently working on an ERC-funded project (Consolidator Grant, 2018-2024) on solidarity in Europe. He is the author of _Solidarity: Nature, Grounds, and Value_ (Manchester University Press, forthcoming Nov 2024, available OpenAccess), which will also include five critical essays by Catherine Lu, Sally Scholz, Rainer Forst, Avery Kolers, and Jared Holley, and Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights (Harvard University Press, 2017) on the idea of moral equality and its importance for human rights.

Research interests PhD supervision

Professor Sangiovanni's main areas of research are in contemporary moral, legal, and political philosophy. Current research interests include: the value and nature of solidarity; social and moral hierarchy; international and global justice, especially with respect to regional organizations like the EU; human rights; the nature of social kinds. At KCL, I teach a range of modules, from the first-year introduction to political philosophy to more advanced topics in political and moral philosophy, such as on the concept of moral equality. I supervise graduate students in a wide range of topics within moral, legal, and political, but most of them work within one or more of the following four areas:

• Solidarity
• International and global justice
• Moral and social equality
• Practice-dependence and/or conceptual engineering

For more details, please see his personal webpage

Teaching

Professor Sangiovanni has previously taught on the following modules

Undergraduate modules:

• 5AANB007 Political II: Theories of Justice (convenor)
• 6AANA046 Topics in Political Philosophy

Postgraduate modules:

• 7AAN2081 Political Philosophy (convenor)
• 7AAN2082 Political Philosophy II: Special Topics

See also Professor Sangiovanni's personal webpage