Brief Biography:

Deen K. Chatterjee (from Sanskrit Dee(pa)n Kar, which means "the light giver"), who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His visiting professorships include appointments at the University of Washington, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Shipboard Education. He has been Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oregon Humanities Center; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University on a David P. Gardner Faculty Fellowship; and Eccles Faculty Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. His areas of specialization are political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion and culture.

Professor Chatterjee's recent and forthcoming publications include Ethics and Foreign Intervention, ed. with Don Scheid (Cambridge, 2003); The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy, ed. (Cambridge, 2004); and Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century, ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). He is currently working on an anthology on feminism and multiculturalism for Oxford University Press and completing a book on human rights and development assistance. His recent and forthcoming articles and reviews are featured in The Monist, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethics, and The Journal of Ethics.  He has contributed book chapters in several anthologies and is the author of entries and articles in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy and the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society.

Professor Chatterjee's recent graduate courses and seminars include Advanced Political Philosophy (Ethics and Foreign Intervention; Liberalism Reconsidered; Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism), Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Faith and Reason), Seminar in Applied Ethics (Toward a New Global Ethic; Relativism, Gender and Justice), and Seminar in Political Philosophy (Public Reason; Rawls' Law of Peoples; Democracy and Globalization).

Professor Chatterjee is Advisory Editor of The Monist 86:3 and Editor-in-Chief of the upcoming multi-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer). He has been a member of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on International Cooperation, and Project Director of four recent national and international conferences at the University of Utah: Student Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Identity: An International and Interdisciplinary Women's Forum (2004); Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Group Rights (2001); Ethics and National Boundaries (1998); and Violence and Non-Violence (1998).

In the summer of 2003 Professor Chatterjee presided over the Applied Ethics section of the 21st World Congress of Philosophy in Istanbul, followed by a research leave in the fall. In 2004 he participated in the month-long Summer Institute on War and Morality at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.  His other recent professional engagements took him, among other places, to Sydney, Melbourne, Delhi, Stanford, Seattle, Santa Barbara, and St. Louis. In the summer of 2005 he will be in Europe, Costa Rica, and India.

Professor Chatterjee's hobbies include travel, foreign movies, hot-springs, exotic food, Tagore music, and discussion of politics and religion.