Presenters for 2009

Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D., directs the University of Cincinnati's Action Research Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is an Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Urban Educational Leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. Brydon-Miller is a participatory action researcher who engages in both community-based and educational action research.

Brydon-Miller's current scholarship focuses on ethics and action research. Her recent publications in this area include "Ethics and Action Research: Deepening our Commitment to Principles of Social Justice and Redefining Systems of Democratic Practice" in the Handbook of Action Research (2nd ed.) and "Covenantal Ethics and Action Research: Exploring a Common Foundation for Social Research" in the Handbook of Social Research Ethics. She also edited a special issue of the journal Action Research on the topic of research ethics with her colleagues Davydd Greenwood and Olav Eikeland and co-authored articles there with Greenwood on research ethics and institutional review boards and on ethical issues of intellectual property. Other publications include work on participatory action research methods, feminist theory and action research, refugee resettlement, elder advocacy, disability rights, and academic writing in the social sciences. She's also interested in arts-based action research and on addressing issues in higher education using an action research model. She teaches courses in action research, the theoretical foundations of urban educational leadership, academic writing, and research ethics.

Michael Davis is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at Case-Western Reserve, Illinois State, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. For 1985-86, he held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Since 1991, he has held-among other grants-four from the National Science Foundation to integrate ethics into technical courses.

Davis has published more than 150 articles (and chapters) and authored seven books: To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (Westview, 1992); Justice in the Shadow of Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996); Thinking Like an Engineer (Oxford, 1998); Ethics and the University (Routledge, 1999); Profession, Code, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2002); and Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation (Mellen, 2002); and also co-edited four other books: Ethics and the Legal Professions (Prometheus, 1986) and a second edition (Prometheus, forthcoming); AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994); and Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Oxford, 2001) and edited one other, Engineering Ethics (Ashgate, 2005). He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1972.

Edward B. Goldman has been Health System Attorney at the University of Michigan since 1978. In 2004 he was appointed Associate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and at the School of Public Health.

A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, Mr. Goldman is a former president of the Michigan Society of Hospital Attorneys. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Care and the advisory board for the BNA's Medical Research & Law Report.

In 1993 Mr. Goldman was a member of the White House task force on health care reform. In 1999 he chaired the Michigan Commission on Genetic Privacy and Progress. Their report served as a basis for the Michigan legislation. In 2001-04 he was a public policy expert for the American College of Medical Genetics Task Force on Newborn Screening and in 2002 he was on a national task force to determine the standard of care for stroke treatment. He is currently a member of the board of Electro-Diagnostic Medicine.

Mr. Goldman has published articles on a wide variety of legal and ethical health care topics, including refusing treatment, consenting to blook transfusions, genetics, fetal versus maternal rights and others.

He enjoys a diverse career combining the practice of law, teaching, writing and community service.

Julie Hollowell (Ph.D. Indiana University 2004) is a cultural anthropologist who helped establish IU's innovative Ph.D. track in Archaeology and Social Context. Her interests focus on multiple claims on the material and intellectual past; the ethics of social science research (archaeology and cultural heritage studies in particular); and the repatriation of knowledge, materials, and research directives to source communities. Julie recently completed a two-year Killam Fellowship at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and is currently a Research Associate with the Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest (based in IU's Department of Anthropology). She also holds an MS in Education and taught for a decade at Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana. For four summers she served as crew chief for archaeological excavations conducted in the Inupiat village of Wales (pop. 130), the northwesternmost point of the Americas and once an important link in intercontinental trade.

Julie is known for her ethnographic case study approach to understanding the antiquities market and other topics in archaeological ethics. In 2003, she co-edited a major text, Ethical Issues in Archaeology with Larry Zimmerman and Karen Vitelli. Her chapter, "Moral Arguments on Subsistence Digging," in The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology (edited by G. Scarre and C. Scarre, Cambridge University Press, 2006) shows how this work integrates ethics and archaeology to inform research.

Julie has been an organizer of the Society for American Archaeology's annual Ethics Bowl since its inception in 2003, which includes producing a set of case studies each year. She recently co-authored Ethics in Action: Case Studies in Archaeological Dilemmas (with Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Dru McGill, SAA Press 2008), designed to promote ethics education at the university level and beyond. She is co-editor (with George Nicholas) of Research Handbooks in Archaeology (published by Left Coast Press), a series of comprehensive volumes covering various archaeological subfields, distinctively global in scope and with a strong emphasis on research ethics. Julie is also the co-developer with Dr. George Nicholas (Simon Fraser University) of an international project on Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy and Ethics that has recently received funding from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

Michael Loui, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics; Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine; and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

He came to Indiana University in July 2001 from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), where he had been Executive Director since 1998. NBAC was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995, and was charged with advising the White House and the federal government on a range of bioethics issues including cloning, stem cell research, international clinical trials, and genetics studies.

Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (Toronto), and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Bioethics Program in Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Meslin has held academic positions at the University of Toronto and at the University of Oxford. From 1996-98 he was Program Director for Bioethics Research in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He has authored (or co-authored) more than 80 articles and book chapters, with most focusing on various topics in research ethics and health policy. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, and the US Observer Mission to UNESCO and is a member of a number of advisory boards, including the Board of Directors of the Canadian Stem Cell Network, and the Stem Cell Oversight Committee of Juvenile Diabetes Research International. He is co-editor of the Bioethics and the Humanities Series published by Indiana University Press.

Richard Miller is the Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests focus on issues in the ethics of war and peace; practical reasoning in public life; and medical ethics, with special attention to children. Miller teaches courses on religion and public life; the ethics of war and peace; biomedical ethics; religion, justice and culture; and religion and the self. Miller is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (1991); Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (1996); and Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine (2003), along with numerous articles and book chapters on the ethics of humanitarian intervention, civic virtue, multiculturalism, and religion and public intellectuals.

Kenneth D. Pimple is Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, a member of the Affiliate Faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, and a Faculty Fellow of the IU Human Biology Program. He has directed the Teaching Research Ethics Workshop since 1993, and he is also the director of Scientists and Subjects: An Online Seminar on the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, an annual seminar funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments to write three background papers for its major publication, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment that Promotes Responsible Conduct Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2002).

Dr. Pimple has authored or co-authored successful grant proposals totaling more than $1.25 million from organizations such as the NIH, the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Open Society Institute, and the Lilly Endowment. He has been invited to make presentations on the responsible conduct of research and on teaching research ethics in a wide variety of venues including the national meetings of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), the Whitaker Foundation, and the Association for Moral Education, as well as at special workshops and seminars at universities and research centers in the United States and abroad. His vita and many of his papers can be viewed at http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple.

David E. Wright is Professor of History of American Science and Technology in Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies (CARRS). Dr. Wright also serves the Office of Research Integrity, DHHS, as an Expert Consultant. At MSU he is the former Chair of the University Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (UCRIHS), Assistant Vice President for Research Ethics and Standards, and the University Intellectual Integrity Officer at Michigan State University.

Dr. Wright studied humanities at Princeton (B.A.) and American Studies at MSU (Ph.D.). Before joining the faculty in Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Professor Wright taught in Lyman Briggs School at MSU. He also served as program officer for the Humanities, Science, and Technology Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Wright is completing a study of the origins of biotechnology in America, which has been supported by NEH, NSF, and USDA.