Background
Born in Princeton IL to Judge James Monroe and Gertrude Renwick Monroe. Raised in Collinsville IL. Currently lives in Irvine.
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Kristen Renwick Monroe
Edit ProfileEducation
Educated at Smith College, the U of Geneva, U of Chicago (MA and Ph.D.).
Career
Taught at SUNY Stony Brook, U of British Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Harvard, and currently Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine.
Achievements
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I have three fabulous children and have written five books of which I am very proud. I have many wonderful friends, including many former students.
Author of 4 prize-winning books: The Heart of Altruism (1996), The Hand of Compassion (2004), Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide (2012), A Darkling Plain: Stories of Conflict and Humanity during the war (2016. Founder of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, President of the International Society of Political Psychology, VP of APSA.
Religion
I am not traditionally religious. My father described himself as an existentialist humanist and my mother as a transcendentalist Taoist. I believe in goodness, beauty, truth and justice. When my brother, Jamie, died of leukemia in 1978, he asked to have written on his tombstone: He loved his wife, Lynn, his family and all those who showed a spark of human kindness. I agree.
Connections
Brother: James David Monroe. Children: Alexander Hart Lampros, Nicholas Monroe Lampros, and Chloe Lampros-Monroe.
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United States
Education
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1964 - 1968