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Jennifer Morton is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment at the Graduate School of Education. She is also a senior fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Ethics and Education and a 2023-2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Her research focuses on how poverty and social class shape agency, particularly the ethical costs of upward mobility for first-generation and low-income students. Her book *Moving Up Without Losing Your Way* won the Grawemeyer Award in Education and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award.
Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University; A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton University.
Awards & Fellowships: Grawemeyer Award (2023), APA Scheffler Prize, Australasian Association of Philosophy Best Paper Award (2017), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023-2024). She has held positions at UNC Chapel Hill, City College of New York, and Swarthmore College.
Research Interests: Ethics of education, moral psychology of poverty, and structural inequalities in agency. Her work bridges philosophy with social science, emphasizing the hidden costs of upward mobility and strategies for equitable educational practices.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Center for Ethics and Education (UW-Madison) and has advised students on topics intersecting philosophy, education, and social justice.
