Julia Annas is Regents Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She holds a BA (Hons) from Oxford, a PhD from Harvard (1972) and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. She has taught at the University of Arizona since 1986, and also at Columbia University and previously as Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she is an Honorary Fellow. She was a founding editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1983 to1992) and was co-editor (with Lindsay Judson) of Oxford Aristotle Studies from 1995 to 2017. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association 2004-2005.
Her research interests have ranged over many fields in ancient philosophy, but have more recently focused on ancient ethics and contemporary virtue ethics. She has written eight books, including The Morality of Happiness (1993), Platonic Ethics Old and New (1999), Intelligent Virtue (2011) and Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond (2017). She has also edited eight books and produced an introductory textbook for ancient philosophy, introduced by topic and argument rather than chronologically. She has published over a hundred articles over a wide range in ancient philosophy and virtue ethics, and given invited talks at a range of universities in the U.S. and internationally.
