SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Adela J. Gondek
International and Public Affairs, 13th Floor
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3646
ajg2@columbia.edu

Biography:

Adela Gondek has taught at Columbia since 1989, primarily as an adjunct professor and more recently as a Lecturer in Discipline, with cross-disciplinary appointments in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), School of Continuing Education (SCE), and the Earth Institute. She has designed and taught ethics courses with distinct emphases on sustainability, environmentalism, public leadership, and organizational management. She taught previously at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at Rider College; she also worked in state government as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts Senate, where she assisted in conducting investigations concerned with corrections reform and consumer product safety. While teaching at Columbia, she has continued with consultancy projects in the field of ethics instruction, most recently with the Earth Charter Initiative and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Goucher College in 1970 and her PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1981. She has recently edited a series of articles published in the online journal, “Cosmopolis-Globalist”; in the field of political philosophy, she wrote "The Dialectic of Religion and Politics," the concluding chapter of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of Democracy, edited by Andrezj W. Jablonski and Wojciech Piasecki (Uniwersytet Wroclawski-Wydawnictwo, 1992).