London School of Economics & Political Science

Sarah C. Goff

Department of Government

London WC2A 2AE

Education

Princeton University, Department of Politics, PhD awarded September 2012

PhD Dissertation: “Fair Trade: The Responsibilities of Consumers, Corporations, and States”

M.A. 2008, with qualifying exams in Political Theory and International Relations

Yale University, B.A. 2006, cum laude

Major: Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Distinction in the major

Academic Appointments

University of Hong Kong, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, January 2017-May 2017

London School of Economics & Political Science, Fellow in Government (Political Theory and Global Politics), September 2013-January 2017

Goethe University Frankfurt, “Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global” Research Fellow, September 2012-August 2013

Research and Teaching Interests

Global justice, ethics of markets, global trade, international assistance, gender equality, discrimination, democratic theory, global governance

Publications

“How to Trade Fairly in an Unjust Society: The Problem of Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market”Social Theory and Practice Volume 42, Issue 3 (July 2016), pp. 555-580

“Fair Trade: Global Problems and Individual Responsibilities,” published online first on 6 November 2016 in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (open access article, available at

“Discrimination and the Job Market,” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook to Discrimination, ed. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Working Papers

“The Ethics of Donor Selectivity: Aid Allocation in Non-Ideal Conditions” working paper available upon request

“A Theory of Injustice in Global Trade” working paper available upon request

Presentations

“A Theory of Injustice in Global Trade”

Invited speaker, Yale-NUS (March 2017, Singapore)

Labour Market Injustice workshop (December 2016, Newcastle, UK)

Justice, Democracy and Political Emotions in Transnational Perspective (April 2015, Recife Brazil)

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference (July 2014, Leeds, UK)

Political Theory seminar, London School of Economics (March 2014, London, UK)

“Aid-Conditionality: Two Defensible Approaches”

MANCEPT, “Rethinking the Economy” workshop (September 2013, Manchester, UK)

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2013, Chicago, USA)

Relational Injustice: Social and Global workshop (June 2013, Bad Homburg, Germany)

Invited commentary on Nancy Fraser, Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to

Neoliberal Crisis (April 2013, Bad Homburg, Germany)

“How to Trade Fairly in an Unjust Society: The Problem of Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market”

Justitia Amplificata internal colloquium (February 2013, Frankfurt, Germany)

"Global Poverty: Ethical Standards and Measurement Problems"

Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson Society (April 2012, Princeton, USA)

“Interference Demands Efficacy: Justifying Foreign Aid to Donors and Recipients”

Midwest Political Science Association Conference (April 2012, Chicago, USA)

“Exploitation and a Conception of a Fair Trade Policy”

International Studies Association Convention (March 2011, Montreal, Canada)

European Consortium for Political Research Conference (August 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland)

“The Coffee Consumer’s Exploitation of a Foreign Farmer”

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2011, Seattle, USA)

“A Conception of Exploitation” (varying titles)

Midwest Political Science Association Conference (April 2010, Chicago, USA)

Northeastern Political Science Association Conference (November 2010, Boston, USA)

Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson Society presentation (April 2011, Princeton, USA)

“Where to Dump Our Global Justice Obligations? Not on International Institutions”

Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference (November 2008, Cambridge, USA)

International Studies Association Convention (February 2009, New York, USA)

“The Influence of Ordinary Citizens Over International Decision-Making: Is Dahl Right to be

Skeptical?”

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (April 2008, Chicago, USA)

Teaching

Capitalism and Social Justice (2017) University of Hong Kong, undergraduate course

Global Justice (2017) University of Hong Kong, undergraduate course

Understanding Global Problems: Theory and Practice (2017) University of Hong Kong, master’s course

Globalisation and Democracy (2013, 2014, 2015) LSE Global Politics MSc course. Primary instructor

Dilemmas of Equality (2014, 2015, 2016) LSE Political Theory MSc course. Primary Instructor

Foundations of Political Theory (2014) LSE Political Theory MSc course. Co-Instructor

The Politics of Globalisation (2013, 2014, 2015) LSE Global Politics MSc course. 2 lectures

Ethics and Public Policy (Spring 2010) Princeton Politics undergraduate course. Assistant in Instruction

for Prof. Stephen Macedo

Practical Ethics (Fall 2009) Princeton Philosophy undergraduate course. Assistant in Instruction for

Prof. Peter Singer

Global Justice (Spring 2009) Princeton Politics undergraduate course. Assistant in Instruction for

Prof. Charles Beitz

Conference Organization

“Relational Injustice: Social and Global” workshop (June 2013, Bad Homburg, Germany).

Co-organizer with Sean Aas, James Gledhill, and Mara Marin

Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory (Princeton, USA): Organizing Committee

member, 2007-2011; Webmaster, 2009-2011; Paper Discussant, 2008, 2011, and 2012; Panel Chair,

2009 and 2010

Awards and Honors

Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson Society, Princeton University, full graduate stipend and tuition, September 2010 – August 2012

Princeton University Center for Human Values, Political Philosophy Research and Travel Grants, June 2009 and August 2011

Princeton University Center for Human Values, Merit Prize for the first year of graduate study, September 2006 – August 2007

George Hume Senior Essay Prize in Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University, for the senior thesis that best investigates both the normative and empirical components of public issues, June 2006

E. Francis Riggs Memorial Prize for Distinction in Yale’s Directed Studies Program, a selective

interdisciplinary program in Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Literature, June 2003

Referee Service

American Political Science Review; British Journal of Political Science; Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric; Political Studies;Res Publica; Reinvention; Social Theory and Practice; and Third World Quarterly

References

Professor Charles Beitz

Department of Politics

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)

Professor Stephen Macedo

Department of Politics

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)

Professor Anna Stilz

Department of Politics

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)

Professor Chandran Kukathas

Department of Government

London School of Economics

London, WC2A 2AE (UK)

(Head of Department for current position of employment)

Last updated: November 2016