Our Faculty & Staff
Dr. David Crocker
Faculty Director
dcrocker@umd.edu
David A. Crocker is Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland , USA . He specializes in sociopolitical philosophy, international development ethics, transitional justice, democracy and democratization, and the ethics of consumption. In the School's M.A. and Ph.D. development program, he teaches courses on ethics, development, foreign aid, democracy, and human rights. Crocker taught philosophy for twenty-five years at Colorado State University . He was a visiting professor at the University of Munich , twice a Fulbright Scholar the University of Costa Rica , and held the UNESCO Chair in Development at the University of Valencia ( Spain ). Currently an officer of the Human Development and Capability Association, he was founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). In the spring of 2007, he was named director of the undergraduate College Park Scholars-Public Leadership living-learning-service program.
Among his publications are Praxis and Democratic Socialism; editor (with Toby Linden), Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship; Florecimiento humano y desarrollo internacional: La nueva etica de capacidades humanas; editor (with Jesus Conill) ¿Republicanismo y educacion civica: Mas alla del liberalismo?, and Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is working on a book whose working title is Reckoning with Past Wrongs: Ends, Means, and Cases.
Ms. Stacy J. Kosko
Associate Director
sjkosko@umd.edu
Stacy Kosko comes to the University of Maryland from The Advocacy Project (AP), a DC-based human rights organization with which she consulted for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and People Building Peace and worked as AP's Outreach and Fellowship Coordinator before becoming Deputy Director in 2006. She also spent a summer working for AP at the Dzeno Association, AP's Roma partner in the Czech Republic. Before graduating from Georgetown University with an M.S. in Foreign Service and a certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies, Stacy was a research assistant at the Institute for the Study of International Migration and interned at the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector. She has also taught in Brazil and in an urban night school in Massachusetts. She graduated as valedictorian from Syracuse University in 2000 with BAs in Television/Radio/Film, English and Textual Studies, and French. She is now working on her Ph.D. in Public Policy with a concentration in international development and a special interest in human rights and international education policy.
Mrs. Jennifer Littlefield
Assistant Director
jnlittle@umd.edu
Jennifer Littlefield is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland focusing on leadership and nonprofits. Prior to coming to Maryland, she served as the Assistant Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement in the University of Georgia 's Terry College of Business. In this role Jennifer assisted with all areas of the Institute including working with their two undergraduate leadership programs, planning and coordinating a study abroad program to Tanzania Africa, and working with various corporate and community partners of the ILA. Prior to working at the Institute, she served as the Development Director for UGA's School of Social Work and College of Education. Before working at UGA Jennifer held the role of Development Director at The Shelter and Advocacy Center for Abused Children in Augusta Georgia. Jennifer holds both a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
