Katherine Jo
Director, Program Development and Design, The Purpose Project
Member of Staff
Katherine Jo is the Director of Program Development and Design for The Purpose Project. In this role, she develops courses, programs, and pedagogy that engage students in questions of meaning, purpose, and character. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses, she leads programming for graduate and professional school students, including Teaching on Purpose, which prepares doctoral students for their future roles as educators, and is an instructor in the Program in Education. Katherine also leads workshops for faculty at and outside of Duke on teaching in ethically formative ways. Katherine serves on the Advisory Board of The Project on the Good Surgeon at Duke Medical School and has served on the Project Leadership Team of Yale University’s Life Worth Living Network. Her scholarly interests include philosophies of liberal learning, the place of leisure in education, and faculty vocational identity. She has previously worked in career development, undergraduate advising, and faculty development. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University, an M.A. in Philosophy of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
