Nancy Sherman

Nancy Sherman is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She has affiliate appointments with Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. She was previously the inaugural holder of the Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the US Naval Academy, helping to design and teach the brigade-wide military ethics course and lay the groundwork for the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the Naval Academy. Her areas of expertise include ethics, the history of moral philosophy, moral psychology, military ethics, and the emotions.

Sherman's books include Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience; Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers; The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers; and Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind. She is also the editor of Critical Essays on the Classics: Aristotle's Ethics.

Sherman has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Wilson Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. She has has advised the Army and Marine Corps as well as the Veterans Administration on suicide prevention and issues of moral injury and mental health, and in 2005 visited Guantanamo Bay Detention Center as part of an independent observer team assessing the medical and mental health care of detainees. Sherman received her Ph.D. from Harvard.