Elizabeth Kiss

Elizabeth Kiss (born 1961) is an American philosopher and academic administrator, specialising in moral and political philosophy.

Kiss was born in New York City and gained her undergraduate degree in 1983 from Davidson College in North Carolina, where she graduated Omicron Delta Kappa.

[4] Speaking about her childhood in a 2018 interview for Times Higher Education she said, "Being the 'American kid' in a family of refugee's and growing up bilingual in a multicultural neighbourhood gave me experience from an early age of straddling different worlds.

Much of Kiss's research has focused on political philosophy and moral education which she believes is essential to personal and professional development.

[1] From 1997 to 2006, Kiss was the founding director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.