Shafer-Landau is a graduate of Brown University and completed his PhD work at the University of Arizona under the supervision of Joel Feinberg.[1] He has been teaching philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2002, where he became Chair of the Department. From 1992 to 2002 Shafer-Landau taught at the University of Kansas. He is the founder and editor of the periodical Oxford Studies in Metaethics.[2] Shafer-Landau returned to UW after a brief stint at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he also served as the Director of the Parr Center for Ethics. Shafer-Landau is the founder and organizer for the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop (also referred to as MadMeta, founded in 2004) which followed him to North Carolina under the name "CHillMeta," before re-assuming its original identity when Shafer-Landau returned to UW. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Sh...)