Freedom Center Talks: Randall Curren – “Children of the Broken Heartlands: Rural Isolation and the Geography of Opportunity.”
Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education (secondary) at the University of Rochester (New York), and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (JCCV) at the University of Birmingham (England). He was the Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for 2012-2013, and held concurrent research professorships at the Jubilee Centre and the Royal Institute of Philosophy (London) in 2013-2015.
Professor Curren is the author of 130 publications, including most recently Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters, with geologist Ellen Metzger (MIT Press, 2017), Why Character Education? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), Patriotic Education in a Global Age, with historian Charles Dorn (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and a series of papers on populism, civic friendship, and the rural-urban opportunity gap. He is editor of the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Education, co-editor of the History and Philosophy of Education Series for the University of Chicago Press, and a past editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education. His work in philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, moral psychology, and psychometrics, has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Templeton Foundation.