Martha C. Nussbaum was born on 6 May 1947 in New York City. She is internationally renowned for her work in Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. In the 1970s, she taught philosophy and classics at Harvard, moving to Brown University in 1982. In 1995, she was named Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and was elevated to Distinguished Service Professor in 1999. From 1986 to 1993, Nussbaum was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she is an Academician in the Academy of Finland and Fellow of the British Academy. She was awarded honorary degrees from over sixty institutions, and won the Kyoto Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and the Holberg Prize. Prominent works include The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Cultivating Humanity (1997), Sex and Social Justice (1999), Women and Human Development (2000), Hiding from Humanity (2004), From Disgust to Humanity (2010), and Creating Capabilities (2011).
