Senior Research Scholar

301-405-4760
rkf@umd.edu

Expertise
Affirmative Action, Multicultural Education

Dr. Fullinwider came to the University of Maryland in 1979 after teaching at SUNY Albany, Mary Washington College, and Virginia Tech. He was one of the early members of the Center -- now Institute -- for Philosophy and Public Policy, where over the years he has directed research projects on many topics, including military conscription, affirmative action, and multicultural education. In 1996-98, he was research director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal, a joint project of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the Pew Charitable Trusts. A volume of essays from that project, Civil Society, Democracy and Civic Renewal , appeared under his editorship in 1999. He has also edited Public Education in a Multicultural Society (1996), a book arising out of an earlier IPPP working group. His book, The Reverse Discrimination Controversy , was published in 1980 by Rowman & Littlefield as a selection of the Lawyer's Literary Guild. Fullinwider continues to write about affirmative action (his most recent contribution is an article for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ), and has recently co-authored (with Judith Lichtenberg) Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions (2004). He has just completed a year as resident fellow at the U. S. Naval Academy.

Brief CV
Papers, Etc.
PUAF 650