Judith Lichtenberg joined the Georgetown philosophy department in 2007. She previously taught at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she held appointments in the philosophy department and at the university's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Her writing and teaching are in the fields of ethics and political philosophy, with special interests in justice and charity both in the domestic and the international spheres; race and ethnicity; education; the mass media; and moral psychology. She has held visiting appointments at Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and the University of Melbourne, and in 2006-07 spent her sabbatical at Stanford University's Humanities Center.