The Michael B. Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership inspires future global leaders through a curriculum designed for students who will shape the world with integrity and vision. Cultivating a quality of mind, heart, and practice, the Institute offers an innovative residential liberal arts experience centered on ethics in action. At the heart of the Institute’s work is a cross-disciplinary and practice-based approach that understands ethical impact and civic engagement as crucial to the work of the liberal arts.

• A commitment to ethical fields of inquiry across the liberal arts teaches students to address and evaluate competing goods and the consequences of choices in a global context. 
• A holistic approach to ethical inquiry builds on a residential model of the liberal arts and positions Haverford students, faculty, and staff to respond uniquely to the ethical challenges of our world through day-to-day living. 
• Scholarship, coursework, experiential learning, and collaborative action go hand in hand, transforming theory into practice; and ethical inquiry into participation and leadership.

The Institute draws on the scholarship of faculty and students across the arts, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, offering traditional and innovative coursework in these areas, while building on a broad network of expertise locally and globally.

The Institute will be housed in a new building that will create an aesthetically alive, visible, and inclusive intellectual forum. The new Institute building will contain classrooms, faculty offices, research spaces, and meeting rooms, as well as a space to host larger public events.

Faculty

The faculty members listed below constitute the current leadership for the Kim Ethics Institute

Sorelle Friedler
The Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science

Jill Stauffer
Associate Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty listed below include those teaching courses affiliated with the Kim Ethics Institute as well as those that form part of its Steering Committee.

Craig Borowiak
Professor of Political Science

Ariana Huberman
Associate Professor of Spanish; Faculty Director of CPGC; Coordinator of Latin American and Iberian Studies

Jess Libow
Visiting Assistant Professor and Interim Director of the Writing Program

Lauren Minsky
Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Studies

Joshua Moses
The Spielman Professor in the Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies; Chair of Environmental Studies

Shannon Mudd
Director of Microfinance, Impact Investing, and Social Entrepreneurial Programs; Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights; Assistant Professor of Economics

Zachary Oberfield
Professor of Political Science

Prea Persaud Khanna
Visiting Instructor of Peace, Justice and Human Rights

Zainab Saleh
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of HCAH

Anna West
Assistant Professor and Director of Health Studies