Charlotte Duffee, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill with a secondary affiliation at Stanford Medicine. She is also a Research Associate with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. 

She specializes in the medical construction of tragedy as a window into broader cultural sensibilities about human values: what it means to be human, what our purpose is, what makes for a good life (especially when times are bad), and the like. Her research recuperates the intellectual history of tragic topics to better identify and examine philosophical gaps in contemporary ethical and empirical research, with an eye toward measure refinement and treatment assessment in medicine. She has written on suffering, moral distress, pain, moral injury, and is currently at work on ennobling responses to tragedy, such as magnanimity. 

Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, Scientific Reports, PAIN, Bioethics, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and more. She also hosts A-KID-EMIA, a podcast on parental flourishing in academia funded by the American Philosophical Association and the Elm Institute. 

She earned her Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Toronto, where she also received a M.A. and a B.A. in Philosophy. She holds additional M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the New School and in Bioethics from the New York University School of Global Public Health.