Past Member
Webb Keane
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Webb Keane is analyzing the debates and practices through which ordinary people grapple with ethical conflict in their own communities, confront potential moral relativism in everyday life, engage in critique, and find ways to live with the consequences. His research is centered on two questions: What are the ethical bases of political commitments? How can empirical cases of conflict and resolution illuminate the problem of moral relativism?
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
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Member
School of Social Science
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Degrees
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
1990
University of Chicago
M.A.
1984
Yale College
B.A.
1977
Honors
2013
Appointed George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor
2013
Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
2009
Annette B. Weiner Memorial Lecture, New York University
2007
Edward Westermarck Memorial Lecture (Finland)
2005
Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan
2005
Distinguished Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
2003
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
2001
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
2000
Henry Russel Award, Rackham Graduate School, U. of Michigan
Appointments
Dept of Anthropology
1991–1997
University of Pennsylvania