Shannon E French

Shannon E. French is the Inamori Professor of Ethics, Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and a tenured member of the Philosophy Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to starting at CWRU in July 2008, she taught for eleven years as an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. French received her B.A. in...See more

Shannon E. French is the Inamori Professor of Ethics, Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and a tenured member of the Philosophy Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to starting at CWRU in July 2008, she taught for eleven years as an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. French received her B.A. in philosophy, classical studies, and history from Trinity University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University in 1997. Her main area of research is military ethics, and she is widely published in this field, including the book, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values, Past and Present. Her scholarly interests also include leadership ethics, organizational ethics, moral psychology, bioethics, and environmental ethics. She has been a featured speaker at professional gatherings in the US and in France, England, Italy, Norway, Canada, Japan, Australia and the Netherlands. See less