Role
Full Professor of Political Theory at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
He also directs the Geneva Research Center for Corruption Studies and holds an ERC/SNSF Advanced Grant on The Margins of Corruption.
Bio
Emanuela Ceva graduated in Philosophy from the University of Pavia and earned a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Manchester. Since 2005, she has held teaching and research positions at numerous universities in Europe, North America, Asia, Russia, and the Middle East. After 14 years of teaching at the University of Pavia, she has held the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Geneva since 2019.
Her research focuses on political theory and public ethics, with three main strands: justice and value conflicts, developed in the book Interactive Justice (2016); respect and tolerance for minorities, the subject of collaborative projects funded by the European Commission and the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR); and political corruption as a pathology of public institutions, explored in the book Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Among the awards received are the Jemolo Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford (2012), the Fulbright Research Scholarship in Philosophy (2018) and the Meet Italian Scientists Award from the Italian Embassy in London (2016), won unanimously for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
He directs the Geneva Research Center for Corruption Studies and has received funding from the Fondation pour l'Université de Genève to establish an institute for trust studies that will conduct research, professional training, and civic education. He chairs the editorial board of the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.