Center Names New Student Fellows

Three SCU seniors have been appointed 2007-08 Hackworth fellows, with responsibility for creating ethics programs for their fellow undergraduates. Their varied interests include sexual ethics; ethics and technology; and democratizing women in traditional societies.

Jessica Coblentz: A leader in the 2006-07 “Student Gender Initiative” in the SCU Religious Studies Department, Coblentz has explored feminism in the context of religion and theology. She hopes to spark more student discussion of sexual ethics on a Catholic university campus. Coblentz has been a Provost Junior Research fellow, an Ignatian Center theology intern, and the winner of the Fallon Award in Philosophy.

Christopher Foster: An economics major, Foster spent the 2006-07 school year on a scholarship to Oxford University from the SCU Honors department. In tutorial at Oxford, Foster says he focused on “emerging technologies’ role in societal and individual ethical frameworks.” He is particularly interested in artificial intelligence and how the Internet has made new social awareness and identities possible.

Roujin Mozaffarimehr: An Iranian American, Mozaffarimehr describes how her interest in democratizing women developed: “I’ve had the opportunity to travel back and forth between Iran and the United States; every time I return back home I feel more confused, more frustrated, and more in need of an explanation of why there is such a lack of ethical treatment of women in Iran.” Mozaffarimehr has a double major in Italian and Political Science.

June 2007