Alumni Award Recipient

Richard Lippke

Rick Lippke grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Iowa State University, majored in philosophy, and graduated with distinction in 1976, having been awarded memberships in both Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then taught for a year back at Iowa State before being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida. He subsequently took a position at James Madison University, where he has taught since 1984.

Rick has published two books: Radical Business Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) and Rethinking Imprisonment (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He has also published 30 articles in professional journals. He is primarily interested in using moral and political theories to analyze legal and public policy issues. In 2001, he was awarded the Madison Scholar award from the College of Arts and Letters, in recognition of his scholarly achievements. He has been invited to spend six weeks this summer at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Rick is married to Andrea Wiley, who is an anthropologist at James Madison University. Together they have two children, Aidan and Emil.