Serene J. Khader is an American moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her areas of research within philosophy include ethics and moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. She works in the interdisciplinary fields of development ethics and global, decolonial and postcolonial feminisms. Some of the transnational practices she has analyzed include microcredit, household divisions of labor, and commercial gestational surrogacy.

