Richardson, Alex, PhD
Associate Director of Content Strategy and Engagement
Alex Richardson is Associate Director for Content Strategy and Engagement at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, where he also teaches courses in the Department of Philosophy. Alex was previously Director of the award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl program at the University of North Carolina's Parr Center for Ethics, and a Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Elon University.
Alex also serves on Boards of Directors of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and Ethics Bowl Canada, as well as on the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Philosophy.
Working at the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of education, Alex considers himself a teacher at heart, and an advocate for public and pre-college philosophy pedagogy. His research interests are varied, but as of late he is thinking and writing about issues in democratic civic education and the development of moral and intellectual virtues among adolescents, among other topics. Alex received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2021, where he taught for many years and wrote a dissertation on the virtue of civility and its role in the non-ideal politics of democratic societies like our own.