Tiffany Barron

I am an assistant professor in the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs' Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I received my Ph.D. in politics at Princeton University in September 2023. 

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In my former days, I dwelt on the border of international relations and comparative politics. I have since moved more in the direction of political theory. My research and teaching interests include virtue ethics, happiness and politics, the common good, political community, and civil society.

 

My dissertation, “The Ethics of Revolt: Just War, Moral Agency, and Civil Conflict,” examines revolutions and civil wars from both normative and empirical perspectives, incorporating just war theory, virtue ethics, and a Bayesian analysis of case studies drawn from early 20th century China.

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I speak Mandarin and have done research on the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogues as well as on early 20th century Chinese revolutionaries and warlords, including the general Feng Yuxiang.

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I have lived in Taiwan and am always interested in conversing about Taiwanese life and culture.

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