Kristin Voigt
Kristin Voigt is an Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy.
Positions held
| 2014-2015 to 2018-2019 | Co-researcher(s), Ethics and health |
| 2017-2018 to 2018-2019 | Axis direction, Ethics and health |
| 2019-2020 to today | Axis direction, Environmental and animal ethics |
| 2019-2020 to today | Co-researcher(s), Environmental and animal ethics |
| 2020-2021 | Interim management |
| 2021-2022 to today | CRÉ co-direction |
Participation in CRÉ events
| 29 May 2024 | International Conference on Epistemic Oppression and Decolonization |
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Flagship themes
Biography
Kristin Voigt is an Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy. She received her DPhil in political philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2008, where she completed a dissertation on luck egalitarianism. From 2007-08, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the European College of Liberal Arts (now ECLA-Bard) in Berlin. Subsequently, she held research positions at Harvard University’s Program in Ethics and Health (2008-10), Lancaster University, UK (2010-11) and McGill University (2011-12), before becoming a faculty member at McGill in 2012.
Her research areas include political philosophy, especially egalitarian theories of social and distributive justice, normative aspects of social and health policy, public health ethics, including tobacco control, (childhood) obesity and the use of incentives to improve health outcomes, conceptions and measures of health and health inequality.
kristin.voigt@mcgill.ca
