About the Author

My name is Pamela Stub­bart. I am a PhD stu­dent in Phi­los­o­phy & Edu­ca­tion at Colum­bia University’s Teach­ers Col­lege, also work­ing on an edu­ca­tion pol­icy con­cen­tra­tion. I have a few years of grad­u­ate course­work in phi­los­o­phy under my belt, as well as an under­grad­u­ate degree in phi­los­o­phy and pre-law.

I am into ethics, very broadly construed.

On the phi­los­o­phy side of things, my projects have been con­cerned with Aris­totelian virtue ethics, moral psy­chol­ogy & “sit­u­a­tion­ist” social psy­chol­ogy, indi­vid­u­al­ist fem­i­nist polit­i­cal the­ory and fem­i­nist ethics.

On the edu­ca­tion side of things, my nascent inter­ests include moral edu­ca­tion, edu­ca­tion pol­icy, school reform, youth rights, and fem­i­nism & edu­ca­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, I worry alot about cur­rent prac­tices of so-called “char­ac­ter” edu­ca­tion in U.S. pub­lic schools. It seems to me to be both empir­i­cally and the­o­ret­i­cally bank­rupt.  I have come to sup­port alter­na­tives to con­ven­tion­ally bureau­cra­tized, schooling-heavy edu­ca­tion — from school choice mea­sures like tuition vouch­ers (fairly pop­u­lar) to unschool­ing in the style pro­posed by edu­ca­tional the­o­rist John Holt (rather radical).

I am a lefty lib­er­tar­ian. The best label for this is “lib­er­al­tar­ian.”

I have 2 res­cued chi­huahua mixes and my main non-academic inter­est is try­ing new foods. Other hob­bies include struc­tured pro­cras­ti­na­tion, impulse pur­chas­ing, try­ing to develop my sense of style, and pac­ing in cir­cles at the bus stop.

Thanks for reading.