Dr Quill R Kukla

Quill Kukla is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. They are the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. They received a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and an MA in Geography at the City University of New York, and completed Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Their most recent book was City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another (Oxford 2021).

At SOCRATES, Quill will continue their research on the ethics and pragmatics of science communication; the representation and communication of risk and uncertainty; and the social epistemology of maps and other visual representations of information. They will also develop a new collaborative research program on how speaker authority, particularly the authority of scientists, citizens, and science policy makers, is shaped by the locations in which speech happens (on campuses, on the pages of journals or newspapers, or at protests, for example).