Elizabeth Anderson is Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has taught since 1987. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2019. She has written extensively on egalitarianism, the interaction of facts and values in social science research, the intersection of democratic theory and social epistemology, pragmatism, and the philosophy of work.
Her two most recent books are Private Government (How Employers Rule our Lives, and Why We Don’t Talk About It) (Princeton UP, 2017) and Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers, and How Workers Can Take It Back (Cambridge UP, 2023).