Anna Stilz is Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she taught for fifteen years in the Politics Department and Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Stilz is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs. She is also a Co-Editor for Political Philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (NOMOS). Until May 2024, Stilz was Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs.
Stilz is the author of Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (Princeton 2009), and Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford 2019). Her recent articles include “Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice,” American Political Science Review (2024), and “Are Citizens Culpable for State Action?” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2023).
Research Interests
Stilz’s research interests include the history of political thought (particularly Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx); democratic theory; nationalism; political obligation, authority, and state legitimacy; rights to sovereignty and territory; the ethics of migration and borders; climate change and climate justice; and theories of collective agency and collective responsibility.
She is working on a new book project on the challenges that climate change poses to the territorial states-system, including climate displacement and the large-scale changes in land use and global governance that may be necessary to adapt to a warming climate.
