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Faculty Scholars

An interdisciplinary group of faculty, the scholars are actively engaged in teaching, research, and community programs in applied ethics.

Faculty

Name Title
Maya Ackerman Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Ahmed Amer                                           Associate Chair and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Adina Ardelean

Teaching Professor, Economics, Leavey School of Business

Margalynne J. Armstrong                         Associate Professor, School of Law
Christine M.  Bachen Associate Professor, Emerita 
Aldo Billingslea William J. Rewak, S.J. Professor, Theater and Dance
Sean Bland Assistant Professor of Law
Brita Bookser Assistant Professor, Department of Child Studies
Erin Bradfield Teaching Professor, Philosophy 
Brian Buckley Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Philosophy
Sarah Cabral Dean's Executive Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business
Elsa Y. Chen  Professor, Political Science
Meilin Chinn Associate Professor, Philosophy 
Rohit Chopra Professor, Communication
Jeremiah Coogan Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Sanjiv Das William and Janice Terry Professor, Finance and Business Analytics
Elizabeth Day Teaching Professor, Child Studies
David DeCosse

Director of Religious and Catholic Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Adjunct Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Laura Ellingson  Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J. Professor, Communication and Women's and Gender Studies
Marilyn Fernandez Professor Emerita, Sociology
Silvia Figueira Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Frugal Innovation Hub

Desiree Forsythe

Assistant Professor, Biology

Deirdre Frontczak

Lecturer in Management and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business
Lisa Fullam Professor Emerita of Moral Theology, Jesuit School of Theology
Sara Garcia Professor Emerita, School of Education
Matthew Gaudet

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Ethics Programs and Initiatives, School of Engineering

Eric Goldman

Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute

Leslie Gray Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Brian Green Director of Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Kirk Hanson

Senior Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Timothy J. Healy Professor, Electrical Engineering
Tim Hight Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Shiva Houshmand Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Harold Hoyle Teaching Professor, Education
Hooria Jazaieri 
Assistant Professor of Management, Leavey School of Business 
PJ Jedlovec

Associate Teaching Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science

David C. Jeong  

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication.

Stephen Johnson Senior Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Philip J. Kain

Professor Emeritus, Philosophy

Susan Kennedy

Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Michael J. Kevane Professor, Economics
Molly King

Associate Professor, Sociology

Christopher B. Kulp Professor, Philosophy
Scott LaBarge Associate Professor, Philosophy and Classics
Dale G. Larson

J. Thomas and Kathleen L. McCarthy Professor and coordinator, Counseling Psychology

Margaret McLean Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Religious Studies Department, 
Michael Meyer Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
Leilani M. Miller Associate Professor, Biology
Peter I. Minowitz Professor, Political Science
Lawrence Nelson Professor, Philosophy
Tonya Nilsson Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Civil Engineering
Michelle Oberman Katharine and George Alexander Professor, School of Law
William O'Neill, S.J.

Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Jesuit School of Theology

Karen Peterson-Iyer Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Thomas G. Plante Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., University Professor, Psychology
Helen A. Popper Professor, Economics
Barry Posner Chair, Accolti Professor of Leadership, Management
Jo-Ellen Pozner Assistant Professor, Management
Erick Ramirez Professor, Philosophy
Chad H. Raphael  Professor, Communication
Francisco Rivera Clinical Professor and Director, School of Law
Laura Robinson Professor, Sociology
Margaret M. Russell Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
Christelle Sabatier Teaching Professor, Biology

Julia Scott

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Director of the Brain and Memory Care Lab, School of Engineering

Nick Serafin Albert J. Ruffo Assistant Professor of Law
Amy Shachter Senior Associate Provost, Research and Faculty Affairs
Robert Shanklin Teaching Professor, Philosophy
Hersh M. Shefrin Mario L. Belotti Professor, Finance
Sukhmander Singh Professor, Civil Engineering
David Sloss John A. & Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor, School of Law
E. Gary Spitko Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good, School of Law
Meir Statman Glenn Klimek Professor, Finance
Craig Stephens

Sanfilippo Family Professor, Biology & Public Health

Sriram Sundararajan

Managing Partner, Hypergrowth Labs, USA; Adjunct Faculty at Leavey School of Business Executive Center.

William A. Sundstrom Stephen and Patricia Schott Professor of Economics
Nancy Unger Professor Emerita, History
Guido van Drunen

Quarterly Lecturer, Accounting, Leavey School of Business

Manuel G. Velasquez  Charles J. Dirksen Professor Business Ethics, Management
Keith Warner, O.F.M Director, Education and Action Research, Miller Center for Global Impact
David Yosifon Peter Canisius, S.J. Professor of Law
I Sil Yoon Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer, Religious Studies
Aleksandar Zecevic

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Affiliate Scholars

Vikram Bhargava Assistant Professor of Strategic Management & Public Policy, GW School of Business at The George Washington University.
Jonathan Kwan Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Shannon Vallor                                                                          Baillie Gifford Chair, Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh.

Senior Scholars

Francisco Jiménez Fay Boyle Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Gerald Uelmen Dean Emeritus, School of Law