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David A. Crocker

Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
and
Director, College Park Scholars in Public Leadership

301-405-4763
dcrocker@umd.edu
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Expertise
Ethics, development, foreign aid, democratization, and human rights

David A. Crocker is Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, USA. Crocker specializes in sociopolitical philosophy, international development ethics, transitional justice, democracy and democratization, and the ethics of consumption. In the School's M.A. and Ph.D. international development program, in which he is interim director, he teaches courses on ethics, development, foreign aid, democracy, and human rights. After three degrees from Yale University (M.Div., MA, and Ph.D.), Crocker taught philosophy for twenty-five years at Colorado State University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Munich, twice a Fulbright Scholar the University of Costa Rica, and held the UNESCO Chair in Development at the University of Valencia (Spain). Currently an officer of the Human Development and Capability Association, he was founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). He is director of the undergraduate College Park Scholars-Public Leadership living-learning-service program. In January 2009, he was faculty director of a Study-abroad trip to Morocco, the theme of which was “Culture and Human Rights – A Public Leadership Perspective.” Among his publications are Praxis and Democratic Socialism ; editor (with Toby Linden ), Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship ; Florecimiento humano y desarrollo internacional: La nueva etica de capacidades humanas; editor (with Jesus Conill) ¿Republicanismo y educacion civica: Mas alla del liberalismo?, and Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is working on a book whose working title is “Reckoning with Past Wrongs: Ends, Means, and Cases.”