RONNI GURA SADOVSKY Department of Philosophy Phone: 314-520-7837 Emerson Hall 209a, Harvard University Email: [email protected] 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EDUCATION Harvard University, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, May 2020 (anticipated) Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014 The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Visiting Fellow 2008–2009 Swarthmore College, B.A. Philosophy and Linguistics, highest honors, 2008 DISSERTATION Title: Political Etiquette Committee: Tommie Shelby, Gina Schouten, Lucas Stanczyk Some social norms, such as table-setting conventions, are morally neutral. Others, such as pronoun choice, are morally charged. My dissertation offers an analysis of a category of morally charged social norms that I call political etiquette. I propose that we understand political etiquette as a system of conventions whereby we assure members of vulnerable groups that they can expect treatment in accordance with their rightful status. My account partially vindicates political etiquette’s claim to moral force, but also sheds light on its limitations. I argue that some of these limitations can be ameliorated through widespread acceptance of my interpretation of political etiquette. Areas of Specialization: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Applied Ethics Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Logic WORKS IN PROGRESS “Political Etiquette’s Moral Force” (under review; draft available upon request) “Assurance and the Optics of Respect” “Political Etiquette as a Vehicle for Moral Education” “Dysfunctions of Political Etiquette” “You Shouldn’t Have to Wonder” “Moral Cults” PUBLICATION Recent Case, Yonaty v. Mincolla, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 852, 856–58 (2013). (student note) Sadovsky Curriculum Vitae 2 ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Harvard University Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019–2020 Edmond J. Safra Ethics Pedagogy Fellowship, 2018–2019 Richard M. Martin Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2017–2018 Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship in Ethics, 2016–2017 Roger Ferguson & Annette Nazareth Graduate School Fund Fellowship, 2015–2016 Sosland Family Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011–2012 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, 2009–2011 Harvard Law School Harvard Law Review editor, 2012–2014 Dean’s Scholar Prizes in: Professional Ethics, 2014 Discrimination: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, 2013 Race Relations Law: 1877–present, 2013 Race Relations Law: 1776–1876, 2012 Legislation and Regulation, 2011 Civil Procedure, 2011 Harvard Defenders Jack T. Litman Fellowship, 2012 Hebrew University in Jerusalem Fulbright Fellowship, 2008–2009 Swarthmore College Highest Honors, 2008 Philosophy Honors Thesis: “The Norms of Framing” Linguistics Honors Thesis: “Intentions and Truth: The Case for Contextualism” Phi Beta Kappa, elected May 2008 Summer Stipend Award in the Division of the Humanities, 2007 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship, 2006 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, 2004–2008 TEACHING AWARDS Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Undergraduates, Spring 2015 Harvard’s highest honor for graduate student teachers, awarded to five teachers per year across the university. Levenson Teaching Prize finalist, Spring 2015 Awarded by the undergraduate student council to one graduate student teacher per year across the university. Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, five-time recipient Awarded on the basis of numeric student evaluations, recognizing an overall evaluation of 4.5/5 or greater. Discrimination (awarded twice) Deductive Logic (awarded twice) Race and Social Justice Sadovsky Curriculum Vitae 3 PRESENTATIONS Algorithmic Discrimination PIKSI (Philosophy in an Inclusive Key) Boston Workshop, MIT 2019 How to Incorporate Ethics Pedagogy into Computer Science Curricula Edmond J. Safra Center Ethics Pedagogy Showcase, Harvard University 2019 Swarthmore College Computer Science Department, Swarthmore College 2019 Commentary on “Algorithmic Bias” by Gabbrielle Johnson Athena in Action, Princeton University 2018 Free Speech, Hate Speech, with Wendy Salkin Day of Engagement / Day of Action, MIT 2017 Machine Learning and Discrimination, with Kate Vredenburgh Day of Engagement / Day of Action, MIT 2017 Social Justice Mores: Epistemic Functions and Dysfunctions The Wellesley Workshop on Law and Language, Wellesley College 2017 Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT 2015 The Workshop Workshop: A Novel Structure for Tutorials in Philosophy Philosophy Department Pedagogy Lunch, Harvard University 2016 Bias, Discrimination and Social Evidence CUNY Graduate Center MAPshop, CUNY 2016 Self-Interest and the Problem of Ideological Persistence Graduate Student Conference on Normativity and the Human Sciences, CUNY 2015 University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference on Varieties of Rationality, CMU 2015 Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT 2011 Color-Consciousness and its Limits Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference, UCLA 2013 Disagreement, Convergence and Realism 2nd Annual Graduate Conference in Analytic Philosophy, Hebrew University 2013 Assistance or Resistance?: Ethics in the Defender’s Role Harvard Defenders’ Litman Fellow Symposium, Harvard Law School 2012 Racism, Ignorance, and Culpability 25th Annual Graduate Conference on Strategies of Critique, York University 2011 Rocky Mountain Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Colorado 2011 Genealogy and the Pregnant Metaphor 12th Annual Comparative Literature Conference on Bodies, University of South Carolina 2010 Sadovsky Curriculum Vitae 4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard University, Primary Instructor Sophomore Tutorial: Discrimination, 2016 and 2018 Sole instructor. Constructed syllabus, assignments and novel class format. Instructional Styles in Philosophy, 2018–2019 Co-instructor with Professor Bernhard Nickel Constructed syllabus, gave student feedback, and collaborated in leading class. Graduate Seminar in General Education: Family and Social Justice, 2018 Co-instructor with Professor Gina Schouten Led class sessions for one third of the term; graded undergraduate student work. Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenges, 2016 Co-instructor with Professor Barbara Grosz Contributed to syllabus, created ethics assignments, and gave lectures on ethics. Harvard University, Teaching Fellow Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School, Professor Sheila Heen, 2016 Race and Social Justice, Professor Tommie Shelby, 2015 Philosophy of Law, Professor Adam Hosein, 2015 Deductive Logic, Professor Mark Richard, 2014 (Head Teaching Fellow) Deductive Logic, Professor Edward Hall, 2013 Guest Teaching “Ethical Responsibility for User-Generated Content.” Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2019 Abstraction and Design in Computation, Professor Stuart Shieber “Identifying Ethical Considerations: Google Duplex.” Swarthmore College, 2019 Ethics and Technology, Professors Krista Thomason and Ameet Soni “Algorithmic Discrimination.” University of Southern California, 2017 Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, Professors Milind Tambe and Eric Rice “Philanthropic Obligations.” Bowdoin College, 2017 Philanthropy, NGOs and the Welfare State in Asia, Professor Emily Clough “Mill’s Utilitarianism.” Barnard College, 2014 Introduction to Philosophy, Professor Simona Aimar Swarthmore College, Teaching Assistant Semantics, Professor Ted Fernald, 2007 Deductive Logic, Professor Richard Eldridge, 2006 Deductive Logic, Professor Alan Baker, 2005 Writing Associate (peer writing tutor), 2005–2008 Sadovsky Curriculum Vitae 5 SELECTED ACTIVITIES Harvard Department of Philosophy Embedded EthiCS, integrating ethics curricula into Computer Science, 2016–2019 Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, 2014–2019 MIT Workshop on Gender and Philosophy (WOGAP), 2009–2019 Feminism and Evolutionary Biology Reading Group, 2010–2013 Harvard Law School Editor of Harvard Law Review, 2012–2014 Articles Editor, 2013–2014 Co-organizer of the Symposium on New York Times v. Sullivan, 2013–2014 President of the Harvard Law Review Diversity Committee, 2012–2013 Editor of Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice, 2011–2013 Articles Editor 2012–2013 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law and Philosophy Forum, participant, 2008–2009 Jerusalem Political Philosophy Forum, participant, 2008–2009 Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, visiting fellow, 2008–2009 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop Coordinator, 2019 Minorities and Philosophy Committee Member, 2013–2019 Philosophy Graduate Student Representative (elected position), 2015–2016 Teaching Reform Committee Member, 2013–2014 Departmental Representative to the Graduate Student Council, 2012–2014 Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference Co-organizer, 2010–2011 Prospective Student Visit Coordinator, 2009–2010 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant to Professor Tommie Shelby Harvard University, Summers 2015, 2016, 2019 Helped to prepare Dark Ghettos for publication; helped to transform Race and Social Justice from a philosophy course into a course in Harvard’s General Education program. Volunteer, Speaking in the Square (Medabrim Bakikar) Jerusalem, Summer 2014 Engaged in bi-weekly grassroots interventions responding to the anti-Arab vigilante group, Lehava, by initiating dialogue with members of the group in Zion Square. Sadovsky Curriculum Vitae 6 PROFESSIONAL