Staff news: Kate Nicole Hoffman joins LSE

We are pleased to announce that Kate Nicole Hoffman will join LSE as Assistant Professor of Philosophy with focus on sustainability. She will be based in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and engage in extensive collaboration with LSE’s new Global School of Sustainability (GSoS).

Kate Nicole said of her appointment: "I am thrilled to be joining the LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method and the Global School of Sustainability this Fall. My philosophical work is focused on building a more sustainable future by reenvisioning our relationship with the nonhuman world and developing new frameworks to confront the many environmental challenges we face today. I am excited to continue this work at LSE, whose commitment to scientifically grounded and policy-relevant scholarship supports my own passion for philosophy aimed at confronting real-world issues. I look forward to learning from and partnering with my new colleagues, the LSE community, and those working on sustainability in London."

Kate Nicole Hoffman has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and spent the last two years as a postdoc at the University of Cincinnati.  Her research program is aimed at sustainability, and in particular, at understanding and reimagining the human-nature relationship in a modern world characterized by environmental destruction.  Kate Nicole’s approach combines resources from environmental philosophy, the sciences, community-engaged research, and a background in the performing arts, in order to creatively engage with issues in conservation, climate change, and animal ethics.  These ideas have been put into practice in her policy and community-oriented work with institutions including the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Public Engagement with Science and the United Nations, and in places from the Galápagos Islands to Bwindi, Uganda.