Biography:
Sarah Clark Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and formerly the Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. her research and teaching interests include moral theory, practical ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political philosophy. She has a growing interest in science and ethics. She has published on the themes of global ethics, need and obligation, harm and moral injury, Kant’s practical philosophy, biomedical ethics, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Miller has been the recipient of several national awards including the March of Dimes Young Scholar Award in Perinatal Bioethics from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the March of Dimes and the Award for Best Paper by a Young Faculty Member from the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. She was also awarded the Early Career Research Award by the University of Memphis (2009).
Previously, Miller was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics, and an American Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and a Max Kade Foundation Research Fellow.
Dr. Miller received her BA in Philosophy and Dance from Haverford College and her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University.
Selected Publications
“Toward a Relational Theory of Harm,” Journal of Global Ethics 18, no. 1 (2022): 15-31.
“Neoliberalism, Moral Precarity, and the Crisis of Care,” Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity, edited by Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower. University of Minnesota Press, 48–67, 2021.
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation. Routledge Press, 2012.
“A Feminist Account of Global Responsibility,” Social Theory and Practice 37, no. 3, 391– 412, 2011.
“Moral Injury and Relational Harm,” Journal of Social Philosophy 40, no. 4: 504–23, 2009.