Penn GSE's Office of Development & Alumni Relations Presents

Food for Thought: bite-sized lectures from Penn GSE's faculty experts

Free Speech on Campus
with Sigal Ben-Porath

Professor
Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division

November 17, 2021 | 12:00-1:00PM ET on Zoom

Dr. Sigal Ben-Porath received her doctorate in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000. She was awarded two successive Tel Aviv University President’s postdoctoral grants. In 2001-2004, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Dr. Ben-Porath has been teaching at Penn GSE since 2004. She is an associate member of the political science department and the philosophy department at Penn. She served as a special assistant to the university president, and as chair of the faculty advisory board to Penn Press. She is executive committee member of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. In 2012-2013 she was affiliated with the Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, and in 2020-2021 she was a fellow in residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.