Morris Kaplan

Morris B. Kaplan is Professor of Philosophy and co-chair of the Lesbian/Gay Studies program at Purchase College, State University of New York. In "Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire" (NY: Routledge, 1997), he argued that the right of same-sex couples to marry or otherwise establish socially-recognized intimate associations is essential to the achievement of equal citizenship. In August 2005, Cornell University Press will publish "Sodom on the Thames" a study of the regulation of male sexuality and the forms of same-sex desire in late Victorian London. He served for many years as a trial attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York and was the inaugural Rockefeller Fellow in Legal Humanities at the Stanford Humanities Center. He has also taught at Yale, Williams, and Tuskegee Institute and published widely in philosophy, political theory and gender studies.