Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure

Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty Member in Law at New York University. She joined NYU in 2023 after serving as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, as well as Director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. Bidadanure is a philosopher of inequality. She examines the foundations of our commitment to equality, theorizes the injustice inherent in social inequalities and explores public policies to remedy them. Her book Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals (Oxford University Press, 2021) asks how we should understand inequalities between people at different stages of their lives. His book proposes a framework to guide the equitable distribution of public goods such as jobs, healthcare, income and political power between age groups. Her work ranges from political philosophy to public policy. She has written on basic income, youth policy, parliamentary quotas for young people, seed capital and baby bonds, among other topics. Her new book project focuses on relational equality. She examines unequal modes of relating, including objectification, animalization, demonization and infantilization. By offering a conceptual and normative analysis of these modes of inferiorization, she puts forward a new theoretical framework for understanding what relational equality positively implies.