Daniel Terris
Daniel Terris
Daniel Terris is the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, and has been at Brandeis University since 1992. Programs initiated under his leadership at the Center and as assistant provost at Brandeis have included: the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, the Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ), the Brandeis International Fellowships, Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East (CHYME), the Sorensen Fellowship (formerly the Ethics Center Student Fellowships), Brandeis in the Berkshires, Genesis at Brandeis University, the Brandeis-Genesis Institute, and the University's continuing studies division.
Terris has offered courses on individualism, poverty, American literature, and the roots and causes of September 11, as well as the annual writing seminar for the Sorensen Fellows.
Terris received his Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University, and he has written on 20th-century history, literature, and religion. He is the author of Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation (University Press of New England, 2005) and co-author of The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases (with Leigh Swigart and Cesare Romano, foreword by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, University Press of New England, 2007). He contributed to Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits, Changing Slowly and Race and the Modern Artist. He has also written for the journal Sh'ma and the Boston Globe newspaper.
Dr. Terris also serves as vice president for global affairs at Brandeis University.