Erin I. Kelly is an American philosopher and author. She is a professor of philosophy at

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. Her book ''Chasing Me to My Grave'', which she co-wrote with the subject

Winfred Rembert Winfred Rembert (1945–2021) was an African-American artist who used hand-tools and shoe dye on leather canvases. Early life Winfred Rembert was born on November 22, 1945, in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia. Raised by his great-aunt, he wor ...

, won the

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in Biography.

Education and career

Kelly attended

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(AB; 1984) and

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(MA; 1987) and received her PhD from

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(1995). She joined

in 1995, rising to full professor in 2018. She lists her academic interests as "justice, the nature of moral reasons, moral responsibility and desert, and theories of punishment".

Selected works

Authored books

*'' Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South''. By Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury, 2021) *''The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility'' (Harvard University Press, 2018)

Edited books

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, Erin Kelly, ed. '' Justice as Fairness: A Restatement'' (Harvard University Press; 2001)

Articles

*Erin I. Kelly (2009). Criminal justice without retribution. ''

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'' 106 (8): 440–462

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