Jacob Fay

Jacob Fay

Postdoctoral Fellow
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
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Jacob Fay is a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His research focuses on normative theories of injustice and their relation to educational policy and practice. Fay is co-editor with Meira Levinson of Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries (2019) and Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries (2016). Prior to his appointment as a postdoctoral fellow, Fay was a visiting assistant professor at Bowdoin College. As a doctoral student, he was a 2017-2018 Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Pedagogy Fellow, a 2016-2017 Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow, and a member of the 2013-2014 Spencer Foundation Philosophy of Education Institute. He also holds an Ed.D and M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in American History from Brandeis University, and an AB in History from Princeton University. Fay was also a middle school history teacher at independent schools in Massachusetts and New Jersey.