Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is a philosopher and professor at Case Western Reserve University, where he has held the Beamer-Schneider Professorship in Ethics and now chairs the Faculty Senate. A passionate lover of educational innovation, he taught at Yale, the University of Chicago, Colorado College and the Jesuit college Le Moyne, and helped build the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates into a global top 500 university.

Besides writing two novels, as he calls them, The Ecological Life and the mixed-genre Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time, he co-created the MIT volume Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future, and later books include Nussbaum's Politics of Wonder. He was on the project team for We Are All Explorers, the first study of a city-wide Reggio Emilia preschool approach in low-income, diverse Chicago neighborhoods. A published poet, he wrote weekly for Emirates Today and co-hosted an environmental ideas show on Dubai Eye Radio in the mid-2000s. Around Cleveland he has collaborated on socially engaged art and social justice initiatives and created Moral Inquiries in Coventry, a community philosophy group.