Rate My Professor Andrea Sangiovanni

Andrea Sangiovanni is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2007. He obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard University. Before arriving at King’s College London, he was Randall Dillard Research Fellow in Politics at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, from 2005 to 2007. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. His primary research interests lie in contemporary moral, legal, and political philosophy. Specific areas include the value and nature of solidarity, social and moral hierarchy, international and global justice with a focus on regional organizations like the European Union, human rights, and the nature of social kinds. He also engages with the history of early-modern and modern political thought. Sangiovanni leads the Ethics Cup KCL Regional, a tournament where high school student teams investigate ethical controversies, emphasizing thoughtfulness, civility, and ethical insight.

Sangiovanni is the author of influential books such as Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights (Harvard University Press, 2017) and Solidarity: Nature, Grounds, and Value (Manchester University Press, 2024, available open access), the latter incorporating critical essays by scholars including Catherine Lu, Sally Scholz, Rainer Forst, Avery Kolers, and Jared Holley. His key articles include Global Justice, Reciprocity, and the State (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2007), Justice and the Priority of Politics to Morality (Journal of Political Philosophy, 2008), Solidarity in the European Union (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2013), Solidarity as Joint Action (Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2015), and How Practices Matter (Journal of Political Philosophy, 2016). He received a five-year European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the EUSOL project, Solidarity in the European Union (2018-2024), exploring solidarity in Europe. Other projects include FAIR-EUROPE on fairness and attitudes about inequality and redistribution in Europe (2017). His research contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals such as no poverty, reduced inequalities, and peace, justice, and strong institutions.