Vanessa C. Wills

Dr. Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher at The George Washington University in DC. Wills is the author of Marx’s Ethical Vision, available now from Oxford University Press.

Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, 19th century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race and of gender. Her research is informed by her study of Marx’s work and focuses on how socioeconomic arrangements inhibit or promote the realization of values such as freedom, equality, and human development.

Dr. Wills is a founding editor of Spectre Journal, a biannual journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis. In Spring 2022, Dr. Wills was Visiting Faculty Fellow at UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities. In 2019/20, she was DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics. She was previously Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Joseph’s University.