Japa Pallikkathayil is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Dietrich School. She started working for Pitt in 2012 as an assistant professor, and previously taught at NYU starting in 2008 while finishing her PhD at Harvard.
Pallikkathayil’s work encompasses moral and political philosophy, and she has recently focused her research on the topics of coercion, deception, exploitation, and bodily rights. She has been published extensively in journals and edited volumes from Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, including her forthcoming work “What is External Freedom?” in Law and Morality in Kant, as well as “The Stability or Fragility of Justice,” in Rawls’ A Theory of Justice at 50 (2023).
She has been awarded numerous fellowships, including the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2006-2007); Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics Dissertation Fellowship (2005-2006); and Harvey Fellow (2005). In 2008 she won the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize and in 2005 the Francis Bowen Prize.