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I have been teaching for about fifteen years, primarily courses on political philosophy, global justice, human rights, philosophy of law, along with more than a dozen courses in critical thinking. In 2013-2014 I was a full-time visiting professor of politics and philosophy at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. For five years, from 2015-2020 I was an assistant professor of Political Theory at StFX in Nova Scotia.
I earned my PhD in philosophy from Western University in 2013. I presently live in Kjipuktuk, which is the Mi'kmaw name for Halifax, meaning the great harbour. I am thrilled to be a contract teaching faculty here at ³Ô¹ÏÍø in the Human Rights and Human Diversity Program, where I first taught 'Introduction to Human Rights' in fall 2011. During my day job, I work as a Human Rights Officer at the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
As a settler scholar and Indigenous ally, my primary research interests and current teaching experience are in Human Rights and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada.
I am presently puttering with a book project largely based on what I think is a simple yet profound insight (that is certainly not original to me): reasonable widespread hope for global justice depends on cultivating, reinforcing, and strengthening robust respect for rights. This seems simple because a just order is usually thought to be a rights-respecting one. This seems profound because it may directly inform our prospects for surviving and flourishing.
Spring, Jeff. "Human Rights for the State and the State for Human Rights." Academia Letters. (2021)
Spring, Jeff. Book Review of "The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations." The Review of Politics. (2018)
Spring, Jeff. Book Review of "Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights." Journal of Moral Philosophy. (2017)
Spring, Jeff. Book Review of "Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration." Contemporary Political Theory. (2017)
Spring, Jeff. "On the Rescuing of Rights in Feminist Ethics." Praxis Journal of Philosophy." (2011)
Spring, Jeff. "Rights and Well-Being in Amartya Sen's Value Theory." The Journal of Value Inquiry. (2011)
- HR 100 Human Rights & Human Diversity, ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- SOPT 5313 Aboriginal & Indigenous Rights, Acadia University
- PHIL 2240 Indigenous Justice Issues, University of Winnipeg
- POLS 2220 Political Ideologies, UPEI
- PHIL 1200 Critical Thinking, SMU
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