Stephen L. Esquith is a philosophy professor and the former Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University.
"[2] In addition, he has been involved in several civic engagement projects within the public school system, led a study abroad program focusing on development in Mali, and spent an academic year as a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Bamako where he taught courses on ethics and development at the Institut Polytechnic Rural and the Institut Supérieure de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée.
[3] Esquith served as chair of the philosophy department at Michigan State University before going on to become Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
[5] Currently, Esquith just completed a new book on the topic of mass violence and democratic political education entitled The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders[6] and co-edited, with Dr. Fred Gifford, a volume of critical essays on ethics and development entitled Institutions and Urgency in Capabilities, Power, and Institutions: Towards a More Critical Development Ethics.
[7] In addition to being appointed Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Stephen Esquith is currently on the editorial board of the journal Polity and has been a senior Fulbright Scholar in both Mali and Poland.