ADVISORY BOARD

Jan Boxill, PhD

Jan Boxill is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair of Philosophy and is the Director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Boxill has research interests in social and political philosophy, ethics, and feminism theory. She is editor of Sports Ethics and is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Front Porch Ethics and with Chuck Stone, an anthology on Free Speech and Censorship. Some of Professor Boxill's publications include: Beauty, Gender and Sport, Journal of Philosophy of Sport (1985); Title IX and Gender Equity, Journal of Philosophy of Sport (1994), Affirmative Action, (co-authored with Bernard Boxill) in Applied Ethics Reader, edited by Christopher Wellman (2003). A dedicated teacher, Professor Boxill has received the Tanner Award for Teaching Excellence.

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, PhD (ex officio)

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Sayre-McCord works in moral theory with a special interest in questions of objectivity and evidence. Widely published, he has an international reputation that has him regularly going overseas to present his work. A recipient of the Tanner Award for Teaching Excellence, he is committed not only to undergraduate teaching but also to teaching in the wider community. Some of Professor Sayre-McCord’s more recent works include: Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations, in Philosophical Issues (2001); On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality, in Rationality, Rules, and Ideals, edited by Sinnott-Armstrong (2002); and, Moral Realism, in Oxford Handbook of Moral Theory, edited by Copp (2006).

Robert S. Adler, PhD

Robert S. Adler is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Luther H. Hodges, Sr. Scholar in the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Adler is an award-winning teacher of ethics, negotiation, business law, and consumer protection, and his research addresses negotiation, product safety, product liability, regulation, commercial law, medical malpractice, and negotiation. Professor Adler has served as an attorney-adviser to two commissioners on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and has served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce. He currently serves on the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Rights magazine.

Howard E. Aldrich, PhD

Howard Aldrich is Kenan Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His research interests focus on social networks and the social conditions under which new businesses are created and in evolutionary theory and its application to organizational change.  Professor Aldrich has published extensively and is the recipient of a number of awards for teaching and research, including the George R. Terry Award and Max Weber Award for Best Book for Organizations Evolving, published by Sage (1999), and the Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management.

Richard N. L. Andrews, PhD

Richard N.L. Andrews's is the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Planning, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, he serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in Public Policy. Professor Andrews's research interests are in environmental policy, and he has published extensively including works about the National Environmental Policy Act, analyses in environmental decision-making, and comparative environmental policy. He has chaired study committees on environmental policy for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Public Administration in addition to serving on committees of the EPA Science Advisory Board and the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some of Professor Andrews's publications include Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, Yale University Press (1999); public policy report on Third-Party Auditing of Environmental Management Systems: U.S. Registration Practices for ISO 14001 for the National Academy of Public Administration in conjunction with Jan Mazurek; and, Environmental Management Systems in the U.S. and Thailand: A Case Comparison in Greener Management International (2004).

Lissa Lamkin Broome, JD

Lissa Broome is the Wachovia Professor of Banking Law in the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Broome majored in finance at the University of Illinois and obtained her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her teaching interests include contracts, commercial law, banking law, securitization, and ethics for business lawyers. She was the recipient of the McCall Award for Teaching Excellence in 1986, 1992, 1995, and 1998. From 1993 to 1995, Broome served as the Law School's associate dean for academic affairs. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the North Carolina State Bar's Authorized Practice Committee. Professor Broome directs the School of Law's Center for Banking and Finance and serves as faculty advisor to the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal.

Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH

Laura Hanson is Co-Director of The Center for Health Ethics and Associate Professor in the Program on Aging and in the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Medicine.  In addition, Dr. Hanson is Associate Director of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program and co-directs the UNC Pain and Symptom Care Program, a collaborative interdisciplinary program to promote clinical service, education and research in palliative care.  Dr. Hanson's research interests are in biomedical ethics with a focus on health care decisions and quality of care near the end of life for older and chronically ill patients and has led numerous original investigations of end-of-life care.  Her research support has included a Soros Foundation Project on Death in America Scholar award, in addition to other foundation and NIH grants and co-authored the Book of the Year Award winner from the American Journal of Nursing, Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying (Springer Publications, 2003).

John McGowan, PhD

John McGowan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He came to the University in 1992, as a Professor of English. Professor McGowan has received many grants and awards including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct the NEH Seminar for College Teachers on Literature and Values (2001 and 1997); a Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (1994); and, a selected participant at the NEH Institute on Aesthetics and Ethics at the University of California at Berkeley (1993). Professor McGowan has a long list of publications including: Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics, published by Cornell University Press (2002); co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, published by Norton (2001); and, Thinking about Violence: Feminism, Cultural Politics, and Norms, in Centennial Review (1993).

Kimberly Strom-Gottfried, PhD

Kim Strom-Gottfried is the Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work where she teaches in the areas of direct practice, communities and organizations, and human resource management. Kim's scholarly interests are in the areas of private practice, ethics, managed care, and social work education. She is the former chair of the National Association of Social Workers' National Committee on Inquiry and is active in training, consultation and research on ethics. Professor Strom-Gottfried has published extensively on ethics, most recently, Straight Talk About Professional Ethics, published by Lyceum (2007).

James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD

Jim Thomas is Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Dr. Thomas founded and directs the Program in Public Health Ethics at the UNC School of Public Health.  With funding from the Greenwall Foundation, Dr. Thomas developed a list of competencies in public health ethics that serve as guidelines for teaching of ethics in schools of public health.  He is the principal author of the American Public Health Association's Code of Ethics and serves among a group of ethicists who advise the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Dr. Thomas’ primary research interest is in the relation between community dynamics and the distribution of disease.  He is a writer and co-editor of the textbook entitled Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Infectious Diseases, published by Oxford University Press (2002).