Joan Claire Tronto (born June 29, 1952),
is professor of political science at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
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and was previously professor of women's studies and political science at
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
and the
Graduate School, City University of New York.
Education
Tronto gained her degree from
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
in 1974. She passed both her masters and her Ph.D at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
in 1976 and 1981 respectively.
Research
Tronto's research fields range from political theories, gender and the
ethic of care
The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories tha ...
, to political thought.
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Ethics of care
The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories tha ...
References
External links
Profile page: Joan TrontoUniversity of Minnesota
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1952 births
American women political scientists
American political scientists
American ethicists
Feminist philosophers
Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
Hunter College faculty
Oberlin College alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Living people
American women academics
21st-century American women