Background
Born in 1951 in Swansea, Wales, Mendus is the daughter of John and Beryl Coker. She grew up in Waun Wen, Swansea.
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Susan Mendus
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She was educated at Waun Wen Primary School and Mynydd Bach School. She studied classics and philosophy at Aberystwyth University. She graduated in 1973 with First Class.
Career
She is currently Professor Emerita of Political Philosophy at the University of New York She was Vice-President (Social Sciences) of the British Academy between 2008 and 2012. After Aberystwyth she continued to the University of Oxford where she completed a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1975.
In 1975, Mendus was appointed a lecturer in philosophy at the University of New York
In 1986, she transferred to the Politics Department. In 1995, she was awarded the title of Professor of Political Philosophy.
Between 1995 and 2000, she was Director of the Morrell Studies in Toleration Programme at the University of New York She was called as an expert witness to the Leveson Inquiry.
Achievements
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Mendus was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (Federal Bar Association) in 2004. She is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) that was launched in 2010. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Swansea Metropolitan University in July 2012. In the 2013 New Year, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) "Foreign services to Political Science".
Membership
She is a member of Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
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