Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure

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I am Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Affiliate Faculty of Law, at New York University. I am a political and moral philosopher working mostly on social inequalities. I study the nature of our commitment to equality, diagnose unjust inequalities, and consider various policies to remedy them.

Before I moved to NYU in Fall 2023, I was at Stanford University (2015-2023) as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Political Science. At Stanford, I founded and was the Faculty Director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. I remain a Senior Advisor there.

My book Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals (Oxford University Press, 2021) is about inequalities between persons at different stages of their lives. I developed a theory that guides a fair distribution of goods like jobs, healthcare, income, and political power between age groups.

My work on age group justice has led me to relational egalitarianism – the view that a just society is one in which individuals relate and treat one another as equals. My current project explores the kinds of egalitarian relationships we have reasons to value by looking at modes of relating we have reasons to avoid. At the moment, I am focusing on infantilization and demonization.

My work branches from philosophy to public policy. I have written on youth policies, youth quotas in parliaments, basic income, basic capital, and baby bonds, among other proposals.