I received a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and am Professor Emeritus, Wake Forest University, USA; Honorarprofessor, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany and faculty member of the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, USA. I was Lady Davis Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2022, 2024); Plumer Research Fellow, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University (2014); the John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair of Social Philosophy, Universität Hamburg, Germany (2013-14) and Fulbright Fellow, Simon Dubnow-Institut, Universität Leipzig, Germany (2009). I have also held other visiting fellowships and scholarships at Oxford University and Tulane University. I published Equal Freedom and Utility (1998) and Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (2007), both with the Ideas in Context series, Cambridge University Press. I am co-editor with A. Simhony of The New Liberalism also with Cambridge University Press (2001) as well as co-editor with B. Eggleston and D. Miller of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life, Oxford University Press (2010). Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich, co-authored with Avihu Zakai, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2017. My long study, Classical Utilitarianism and the Anxiety of Influence, will be published with Oxford University Press in November, 2026. “The Methods of Ethics at 150" (an introduction to a special issue of Utilitas that I am editing commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics) is also forthcoming. I have been the book review editor for Utilitas since 2006.