Sarah Beth Kitch, Ph.D.

sarahbethvkitch@gmail.com


Adjunct Professor

Independent Consultant/ Researcher

Year of PhD: 2014

City: Houston, Texas

Country: United States

About Me:

“The most urgent task faced by American education," writes Abraham Joshua Heschel, "is to destroy the myth that accumulation of wealth and the achievement of comfort are the chief vocations of man.  Charity, being personally involved in relieving the suffering of man, is as important to education as the acquisition of technical skills.”  I create conversations that move persons to thoughtful action.  I trained in political theory, with attention to ethics and political theology, at Louisiana State University (PhD Political Science, 2014).  My work centers on cultivating ethical sensitivity to inform thoughtful action in democracy.In recent years, I received the Truman School Faculty Teaching Award as well as the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority Faculty Member of the Year, both student-selected awards.  I’ve published in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Church and State.Before returning to the Gulf Coast, I was an Assistant Professor in Constitutional Democracy and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri.  And before that, I was an Instructor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, the 2016-2017 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University.

Research Interests

Political Theory

Human Rights

Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Ethics

Dehumanization & Humanization

American Political Thought

Public Affairs

Politics & Literature

Ethics: Higher Ed

Countries of Interest

United States