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Co-Directors

  • Craig Callender

    Craig Callender

    Professor, UC San Diego Department of Philosophy

    Craig Callender is a philosopher of science who has worked in the foundations of physics, and who has teaching and research interests in environmental ethics.

    Prior to UC San Diego, Craig worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997, and his book “What Makes Time Special?” (Oxford, July 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award.

    He was recently elected to the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, the largest science advocate in the world.

    Craig is working on a range of topics in the foundations of physics, and is beginning research on (1) the nature of future time biases and (2) a book on environmental ethics.

  • John H. Evans

    John H. Evans

    Professor, UC San Diego Department of Sociology
    Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences

    John H. Evans earned his bachelor's degree from Macalester College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University and has held visiting professorial fellowships or honorary professorships at the Universities of Edinburgh, Muenster, Ben Gurion, and Queensland.

    He has published two books on the profession of bioethics, two books of sociological analyses of ethical controversies in reproductive genetics, and numerous articles about religion, science, ethics and politics. His most recent book is “Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict Between Religion and Science” (University of California Press).

Advisory Board Members

  • Sandra Brown

    Sandra Brown

    Distinguished Professor

    Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Cristina Della Coletta

    Cristina Della Coletta

    Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities

  • David Danks

    David Danks

    Professor of Data Science and Philosophy
  • Cathy Gere

    Cathy Gere

    Associate Professor of History

  • Larry Goldstein

    Larry Goldstein

    Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

    Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
    Dept. of Neurosciences

  • Daniel Navon

    Daniel Navon

    Assistant Professor of Sociology

  • Dana Nelkin

    Dana Nelkin

    Professor of Philosophy

  • Kim Prather

    Kim Prather

    Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

    Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry
    Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Ramesh Rao

    Ramesh Rao

    Professor

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Director, UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)

  • Suresh Subramani

    Suresh Subramani

    Professor

Members

  • Wael Al-Delaimy

    Wael Al-Delaimy

    Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine

    Division Chief of Global Health

  • Cinnamon Bloss

    Cinnamon Bloss

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine

  • Reuven Brandt

    Reuven Brandt

    Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • David O. Brink

    David O. Brink

    Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Nancy Cartwright

    Nancy Cartwright

    Professor, Department of Philosophy

    Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham

  • Scott W. Desposato

    Scott W. Desposato

    Professor, Department of Political Science

  • Mary Devereaux

    Mary Devereaux

    Assistant Director, UC San Diego Research Ethics Program

  • Fonna Forman

    Fonna Forman

    Professor, Department of Political Science

    Director, UC San Diego Center on Global Justice

  • Dov Fox

    Dov Fox

    Professor, School of Law, University of San Diego

    Director, Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics

  • Robert M. Friedman

    Robert M. Friedman

    Vice President for Policy and University Relations, J. Craig Venter Institute

    Professor of Practice, School of Global Policy and Strategy

  • Cathy Gere

    Cathy Gere

    Associate Professor, Department of History

    Director of Science Studies Program

  • Stuart Geiger

    Stuart Geiger

    Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

    Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Practical Ethics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Computational Social Science

  • Daniel C. Hallin

    Daniel C. Hallin

    Professor, Department of Communication

  • Lilly Irani

    Lilly Irani

    Associate Professor, Department of Communication

  • Michael W. Kalichman

    Michael W. Kalichman

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology

    Director, UC San Diego Research Ethics Program

  • Uma R. Karmarkar

    Uma R. Karmarkar

    Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management and School of Global Policy and Strategy

  • Karen Kovaka

    Karen Kovaka

    Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Andy Lamey

    Andy Lamey

    Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Kerry McKenzie

    Kerry McKenzie

    Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Daniel Navon

    Daniel Navon

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

  • Camille Nebeker

    Camille Nebeker

    Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health

  • Dana Nelkin

    Dana Nelkin

    Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Amy L. Non

    Amy L. Non

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

  • Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

    Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

  • Samuel Rickless

    Samuel Rickless

    Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Margaret E. Roberts

    Margaret E. Roberts

    Professor, Department of Political Science

  • Akos Rona-Tas

    Akos Rona-Tas

    Professor, Department of Sociology

  • Lynn Russell

    Lynn Russell

    Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    Atmospheric Aerosol Group
  • Ulrike Schaede

    Ulrike Schaede

    Professor of Japanese Business, School of Global Policy and Strategy

  • Cynthia (Cindy) Schairer

    Cynthia (Cindy) Schairer

    Assistant Project Scientist, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science

  • Will Styler

    Will Styler

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Linguistics
    Director of UC San Diego Computational Social Science Program

  • Manuel Vargas

    Manuel Vargas

    Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Saiba Varma

    Saiba Varma

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

  • Bradley Voytek

    Bradley Voytek

    Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science

  • Lillian Walkover

    Lillian Walkover

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Communication and Global Health Program

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    David Wiens

    Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

  • Monique Wonderly

    Monique Wonderly

    Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Pinar Yoldas

    Pinar Yoldas

    Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts

Staff

  • Anthony King

    Anthony King

    Assistant Dean, Strategic Engagement

    School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office

    apk006@ucsd.edu

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    Eva Thiveos

    Business and Data Officer

    School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office

    ethiveos@ucsd.edu

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    Allison Santana

    Events and Outreach Specialist

    School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office

    a5santana@ucsd.edu

  • Joelle (Fusaro) Adesso

    Joelle (Fusaro) Adesso

    Public Relations Specialist

    School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office

    jmfusaro@ucsd.edu

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