Faculty Fellows
A list of Parr Center for Ethics Faculty Fellows, all of whom have research and teaching interest in ethics.
The Parr Center Faculty Fellows are committed to teaching about and promoting the discussion of ethical theory and issues. Fellows conduct research, and/or teach ethics in their respective fields and participate in various ways in Parr Center events. You can find more information on becoming a Faculty Fellow here.
| Name | Affiliation | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Howard Aldrich | Department of Sociology | Evolutionary Social Science; Entrepreneurship; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Economic Sociology; Inequality |
| Denise Anthony | School of Information and Library Science | Archives and historical collections |
| Stephen Arbogast | Kenan-Flagler Energy Center | International Finance, Project Finance, Business Ethics and the Business of Energy |
| A. Fleming Bell | School of Government | Ethics & Criminal Justice; Crime Fear; Criminal Law; Levels of Incarceration; Juvenile Delinquency |
| Judith R. Blau | Department of Sociology | Human Rights |
| Lois Boynton | School of journalism and Mass Communication | Ethical decision-making; Professionalism; Social Responsibility; Agenda Building; Persuasion |
| Molly Broad | School of Government | Leadership; Strategic Planning; Economic Development |
| Lissa Broome | School of Law | Banking Law; Commercial Law; Contracts; Corporate Board Diversity |
| Mara Buchbinder | Department of Anthropology Department of Social Medicine | Medicine; Bioethics; Medical Anthropology; Law; Patient-Provider Relationship |
| Giselle Corbie-Smith | Department of Social Medicine | Practical and Ethical Issues Regarding Involvement of Minorities in Research |
| Arlene Davis | Department of Social Medicine | Clinical Ethics; Research Ethics; Health Law |
| Sreedhari Desai | Kenan-Flagler Business School | Organizational Behavior, Ethical Decision Making, Fairness and Gender Diversity |
| David Dill | Department of Public Policy | Academic Reseach Policy; Norms and Values on Academic Conduct; Ethical Dimensions of Teaching; Academic Culture of Universities; Market Forces |
| Michael Fern | Department of Computer Science | Decision-making; new product development; entrepreneurship |
| Jill Fisher | Department of Social Medicine | Pharmaceutical Industry; Clinical Trials; Political Economy; Healthcare; Social Inequalities; Research Ethics |
| Gary Gala | Department of Psychiatry | Philosophical issues in Psychiatry; Philosophy of Mind |
| Deborah Gerhardt | School of Law | Art Law; Copyright Law; Intellectual Property; Media Law; Plagiarism |
| Amelia Gibson | School of Information and Library Science | Communities and health-related information behavior, information worlds, information needs and practices of individuals with developmental disabilities, information policy |
| Hannah Gill | Center for Global Initiatives | Social Anthropology; Latin American Migration |
| Suzanne Gulledge | School of Education | Teacher Professional Development; Social Foundations; Teaching Ethics; Social Studies Education |
| Richard Harrill | Campus Y | Youth Service; Civic Engagement |
| Carol Hee | Kenan-Flagler Business School | Sustainable Enterprise; Environmental Strategy |
| Gail Henderson | Department of Social Medicine | Global Health Inequality; Research Ethics |
| Thomas Hill | Department of Philosophy | Ethics; History of Ethics; Political Philosophy |
| David A. Hofmann | Kenan-Flagler Business School | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Safety Culture, Healthcare |
| Terrence Holt | Department of Social Medicine | Medicine and Literature; Medical Autobiography |
| Norma Houston | School of Government | Emergency Management Law; Public Contract Law; Property Disposal |
| Eric Juengst | Center for Bioethics Department of Social Medicine | Bioethics; Genetics; Biotechnology |
| Joseph E. Kennedy | School of Law | Ethics and Criminal justice; Crime Fear; Levels of Incarceration; Juvenile Delinquency |
| Laurie Langbauer | English & Comparative Literature | Children in Literature; Ethics in Literature |
| Marc Lange | Department of Philosophy | Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics; Epistemology |
| Douglas Long | Department of Philosophy | Bioethics; Philsophy of the Mind; Free Will |
| Deborah Love | Center for Bioethics | Bioethics; Health Care Ethics |
| Christian Lundberg | Department of Communication Studies | Public Discourse; Rhetorical Theory; Cultural Studies |
| Anne Lyerly | Department of Social Medicine | Women’s Health; Reproductive Medicine; Bioethics; Health Policy |
| Douglas MacLean | Department of Philosophy | Practical Ethics; Moral and Political Theory; Issues in Environmental Ethics |
| Timothy Marr | Department of American Studies | Islam; American Views of Islam; Birth and Death; Cultural Memory |
| Steven May | Department of Communication Studies | Organizational Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility |
| John McGowan | English & Comparative Literature Institute for the Arts and Humanities | Theory and Practice of Representation in Victorian Literature; Philosophical Antecedents to Contemporary Theory; Shifting Roles of the Intellectual |
| Kevin T. McGuire | Department of Political Science | U.S. Supreme Court; American Constitutional Law |
| Benjamin Mason Meier | Department of Public Policy | International Law; Public Policy; Global Health; Human Rights; Global Health Governance |
| Raúl Necochea | Department of Social Medicine | History of Medicine and Science; Global Health; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Latin America; Science and Technology Studies |
| Alan Nelson | Department of Philosophy | Modern Philosophy |
| Dan Nelson | Department of Social Medicine | Research Ethics; Human Research Protections |
| Cathy Packer | School of Journalism and Mass Communication | Media law; Internet Law; Access to Government Information; Reporter’s Privilege Law |
| Susan Harbage Page | Department of Women's and Gender Studies | Photography and Site-Specific Installation on Immigration, Race, Gender, and Nation. |
| Ellen R. Peirce | Kenan-Flagler Business School | Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Discrimination in the Workplace; Ethics in Corporate Governance; Workplace Management |
| Gerald Postema | Department of Philosophy School of Law | Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Politics; Professional Responsibility |
| Peter Redfield | Department of Anthropology | Anthropology of Science; Technology and Medicine; Humanitarianism and Human Rights; Colonial History; Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts; Global Knowledge |
| C.D.C Reeve | Department of Philosophy | Ancient Greek Philosophy |
| Stuart Rennie | Department of Social Medicine | Bioethics; Research Ethics; Public Health Ethics; Medical Ethics in the Developing World |
| Thomas Ricketts | Department of Social Medicine | Rural Healthcare; Primary Care; Regionalization of Services; Political Philosphy; Policy Implementation and Development; Global and Comparative National Health Policies |
| Michele Rivkin-Fish | Department of Anthropology | Health and Gender in Russia; Moral Economies of Medicine and Health in the United States |
| Barry Roberts | Kenan-Flagler Business School | Entrepreneurship; Venture Financing; Ethics and Commercial; Consumer Law |
| Myra Roche | Center for Genomics & Society | Genetic Counseling; Families Understanding of Genetic Information; Ethical Issues Arising from Genomic Testing |
| Steven Rosefielde | Department of Economics | Economic Systems of Continental Europe, America, Japan, Russia, China, and Korea |
| Barbra Rothschild | Center for Genomics & Society | Human Subjects; Research Ethics; Community Engagement |
| Geoff Sayre-McCord | Department of Philosophy Philosophy, Politics, & Economics | Metaethics, Moral Theory, History of Philosophy (especially Hume and Smith), Epistemology |
| Richard Saver | School of Law | Corporate Law; Health Law; Non-Profit Organizations Law; Products Liability |
| Sohini Sengupta | Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | HIV/AIDS; Domestic Violence; Stigma; Research and Clinical ethics; Health Disparities |
| Betsy Sleath | School of Pharmacy | Provider-Patient Communication |
| Mi-Kyung Song | School of Nursing | Bioethics; End of Life Communication; Treatment Decision Making; Surrogate Decision Making; Integration of Palliative Care |
| Jeff Spinner-Halev | Department of Political Science | Contemporary Liberal and Democratic Theory; Citizenship; Diversity; Minorities |
| Niklaus Andreas Steiner | Center for Global Initiatives | Immigration; Refugees; Nationalism; Citizenship |
| John Stephens | Department of Political Science | Comparative Politics; Political Economy; European Politics; Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies |
| Kim Strom-Gottfried | School of Social Work | Academic Leadership; Professional Ethics; Social Work Education; Bereavement |
| Randall Styers | Department of Religious Studies | Religion in Modern Western Culture; Cultural History of the Study of Religion; Religion and Gender; Religion in American Law and Politics; Critical Social Theory |
| James Thomas | Department of Epidemiology | Public health Ethics; Affect of Social Forces on Distribution of STDs |
| Marcia Van Riper | School of Nursing Center for Genomics & Society | Bioethics; Children's Health; Genetics |
| Rebecca Walker | Department of Social Medicine Department of Philosophy | Practical Virtue Ethics; Concepts of Autonomy; Bioethics; Ethics of How We Treat Non-Human Animals; Allocation of Healthcare Resources |
| Judith Wegner | School of Law | Higher Education; Land Use; Legal Education; Legislation; Local Government; Property Law, State and Local Government Law |
| Amina White | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, UNC School of Medicine | Bioethics, Trauma-informed Practices, Patient-physician Communication; Patient Activation and Engagement of Disadvantaged or Marginalized Groups, Participation of Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials |
| Barbara Wildemuth | School of Information & Library Science | Information Seeking Behaviors; Information Use, Design and Evaluation of Information Systems; Adoption and Use of Information |
| Rachel A. Willis | Department of American Studies | Factors Affecting Access to Work in the American Economy |
| Louise Winstanly | Gillings School of Global Public Health; Center for Bioethics | |
| Erica Wise | Department of Psychology | Ethical and Legal Issues in the Provision of Psychological Services; Assessment of Outcomes in Psychotherapy |
| Susan Wolf | Department of Philosophy | Moral Psychology; Value Theory; Normative Ethics |