Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values

Grant Application Process | Faculty Grants Awarded 2005
Faculty Grants Awarded 2004 | Faculty Grants Awarded 2002-2003

Affiliated and Interested Faculty

Faculty	School	Department	Areas of research or interest in Ethics
James Ballard	Engineering	Engineering and Policy	Professional ethics for engineers. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Ryan Balot	A&S	Psychology	Ancient Greek democracy and its attempt to develop a distinctly democratic understanding of virtue.
Carolyn Baum	Medicine	Occupational Therapy	Community independence of older adults vs. institutionalization.
Nancy Berg	A&S	Modern Hebrew	Participant in a Faculty Grant Project on Ethical Issues.
John Bowen	A&S	Social Thought and Analysis	Religion (Islam). Justification as an object of study. Comparative law, religion, and cultural. Pluralism in U.S. and Europe.
Eric Brown	A&S	Philosophy	The metaphysics and epistemology of value judgments, especially ancient Greco-Roman approaches to values.
Margaret Brown	A&S	Anthropology	Cross-cultural research methods; representations of Groups; research ethics and ethics in presentations. Relationship between social structure and cultural values (i.e. what beliefs/values underlie hierarchical social relations).
Robert Carney	Medicine	Psychiatry	The ethics of medical research broadly conceived. As a member of the WU Human Studies Committee We address these issues with out the benefit of interdisciplinary discussion.
Brian Carpenter	A&S	Psychology	Family responsibilities and aging. Death and dying and end-of-life situations. Decision making in ethical contexts.
Edith Chen	A&S	Psychology	Ethics involved in conducing clinical trials in behavioral medicine, the involvement of minorities, and low SES populations in research.
Theodore J Cicero	Medicine	Psychiatry	Vice-Chancellor for Research
Kathleen Clark	Law		Political ethics; legal ethics and professional discipline; prosecutors' misconduct and wrongful convictions; whistle-blowing and institutional secrecy; accountability and democratic reform; government secrecy and national security; integrating ethics into substantive and clinical courses; using popular culture (e.g. film) in ehtics courses. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Teresa Deshields	Medicine	Internal Medicine	Psychological issues in cancer, truth telling in medicine (informed consent, disclosure of genetic risk), end of life issues, issues affecting patient reporting (social desirability demand characteristics.
Rebecca Dresser	Law Medicine	Psychology	Participant in a Faculty Grant Project on Ethical
Garrett Duncan	A&S	Education	Schooling as a moral enterprise.
Dorothy Edwards	Medicine	Occupational Therapy	Self determination and autonomy, older adults and persons with cognitive impairment.
Edwin Fisher	Medicine	Medicine Psychology	Pediatrics Ethics and behavior change. Risk perception and values vis-a-vis genetics and cancer. Values and cultural differences.
Kenneth Freedland	Medicine	Psychiatry	Behavioral bioethics; public awareness of the importance Value, and benefits or need for biomedical and behavioral research. W. U. students' awareness of values inherent in their education (e.g. critical thinking, excellent scholarship, etc).
Marilyn Friedman	A&S	Philosophy	Partiality and impartiality. Autonomy. Women's rights, especially in illiberal cultural minorities. Autonomy and gender subordination. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Ursula Goodenough	A&S	Biology	Meta-ethics, evolutionary roots of moral experience.
Jeremy Goodman	Medicine	Surgery	Ethics and values instruction for surgeons.
David Hadas	A&S	English	Professor of English
Robert Hansman	Architecture		The intersection of built form, racial and social justice, and the full range of issues regarding how people especially poor people live.
Robert Hegel	A&S	Chinese (ANELL) and Comparative Literature	Ethical responses to the collective trauma of natural disasters, warfare, change of government as reflected in history.
John Hoal	Architecture		The ethical function and practice of architecture. Social justice and the city.
Emma Kafalenos	A&S	Comparative Literature	The multiplicity of values in the arts (including literature). The effects for guiding listeners' interpretations of any telling of a set of events.
Ahmet Karamustafa	A&S	History	Religion and Ethics
Fatemeh Keshavarz	A&S	System Science and Math	Gender, multi-cultural interaction and exchange. The study of sacred and spiritual values.
Mary Klingensmith	Medicine	Surgery	Medical malpractice. The "ethics" of teaching surgical trainees to perform techniques on human patients. The institution of a formal curriculum in ethics for surgical trainees.
Ira Kodner	Medicine	Surgery	Medical ethics, compassionate medicine, and developing effective training in moral values for surgical residents. Promoting professional and community awareness of ethics. Chair of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Lutz Koepnick	A&S	Germanic Language and Literature German	20th and 21st century culture. Film and Media Studies. Intellectual history.
Alan Lambert	A&S	Psychology	Personality (individual difference) approach to values, especially in relation to political ideology and racial attitudes, e.g. egalitarian values.
Randy Larsen	A&S	Psychology	Applied research ethics e.g. human subject protection and research integrity. Positive human values, e.g. life satisfaction and well being, character, integrity, creativity, etc. Positive psychology.
Stephen Lefrak	Medicine	Medicine
Glenn MacDonald	Business		John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Strategy.
Charles McManis	Law	Psychology	Biodiverstiy and Biotechnology particularly concerning the protection of traditional knowledge of native peoples.
Larry May	A&S	Philosophy	Participant in a Faculty Grant Project on Ethical Issues.
John C. Morris	Medicine	Neurology	Friedman Professor of Neurology, co-director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center, and participant in a Faculty Grant Project on Ethical Issues.
Linda Nicholson	A&S	Women's Studies	Feminist Theory and issues around social identity.
Frank Oros	Art		Social responsibilities and accountability of the visual communicator in commercial media broadcast, print and electronic.
Shanti Parikh	A&S	Anthropology	Sexual and Reproductive Health (HIV / AIDS). Development and underdevelopment. Ethnographic and participatory action research.
Mark Rank	Social Work		The ethics of inequality, in particular American inequality
Andrew Rehfeld	A&S	Political Science	Political and social theory. Democratic theory.
Rebecca Rogers	A&S	Education	Language and power in literacy education.
Walt Schalick	Medicine & A&S	Pediatrics & History	A pediatrician and historian of disabilities and medicine working with children with disabilities and investigating the history of disabilities. Co-chair of the ethics committee for a national pediatric research network and working to inject more humanistic and social scientific methodology.
Henry Schevy	A&S	Performing Arts	Values in the Arts. The Israeli - Palestinian Conflict. Modern Drama.
Sondra Schlesinger	Medicine	Molecular Microbiology	Molecular biology and history of viruses. Medical and biomedical ethics. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Mitchell Sommers	A&S	Psychology	Informed consent in cognitively impaired populations. Neural prosthetics .
Lester K. Spence	A&S	Political Science	Race and politics.
Charles Starkey	A&S	Philosophy	Emotions and Ethics. Technology assessment.
Brad Stoner	A&S	Anthropology	Cross - cultural ethics in health research; informed consent in non-western cultures.
Conevery Valencius .	A&S	History	The history of medicine and environmental history. Helping students to make decisions in their future and non-university lives. Developed one course on how we think through pressing environmental questions using the tools and background provided by history. Interested in doing something similar and more interdisciplinary with contemporary questions in medicine. And, in getting together with colleagues coming at similar topics from different disciplinary perspectives
Lewis Wall	Medicine	Obstetrics and Gynecology
Murray Wax	A&S	Anthropology	Critical of how the federal version of ethics has been imposed on social research.
James Herbert Williams	Social Work		Professional ethics for social workers. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.
Emily Winslow	Medicine	Surgery	Medical malpractice issues, patient advocacy, and competing interests in the care of patients including financial incentives and personal gains.
Stuart Yoak	Business and Medicine	Health Administration	Professional ethics (business, medicine, law, etc.). Applied ethical theory and the history of moral values. Member of the Planning Committee for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University.