March 3, 2026
Beginning in Fall 2026, Violet Victoria will join the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor and affiliate of the Kendrick Center for an Ethical Economy. There, she will be part of the effort to expand research and teaching in business ethics, supported by a $2.49 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Violet graduated from Columbia University with B.A. degrees in Political Science and Native American Studies, after which she worked as a securities lending trader at Goldman Sachs. This spring, she will defend her PhD dissertation A Teleological Conception of Financial Markets, which argues that financial markets have a distinct social purpose separate to those of markets for products and services. She also has socially engaged research projects in medical ethics, focused on drug pricing and representation in research data, along with work in applied economic issues like gentrification and zoning.
More about Violet and her work can be found at violetvictoria.xyz.
