Nancy Snow

Experts Meeting: Nurturing Healthy Relationships at Home and Work

Working Paper | The Primacy of Self-Care in Attaining a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Nancy E. Snow joined the KU Philosophy Department as a tenured full professor in late August, 2022.  She was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma.  Her research interests are in virtue ethics, moral psychology, and virtue epistemology.  She is the author of Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory (Routledge, 2010), Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and seventy papers on virtue and ethics more broadly.  She is the co-author (with Jennifer Cole Wright and Michael T. Warren) of Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement (Oxford University Press, 2021), has edited or co-edited seven volumes. She is the series editor of “The Virtues,” a fifteen-book series published by Oxford University Press.  From 2014-2022, she has either co-directed, been the PI on, or been heavily involved with interdisciplinary grants totaling about $10 million.  In addition to other projects, she is currently authoring a monograph on hope, and planning work on a monograph on virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.