Global Dialogues

K. Anthony Appiah, professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law, is a leading scholar of literary and cultural studies with a focus on African and African-American culture. Appiah has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton universities before joining NYU in 2014. Among his many acclaimed books are In My Father’s House (1992), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010), and The Ties That Bind (2014). He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and was inducted in 2008 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.