Senior Fellows
The Institute also hosts a stellar group of Senior Fellows. These Fellows comprise the core of the Institute's research division and whose expertise and insights will help shape both the information and modes of practice we are able to provide the larger humanist movement. The Institute currently hosts seven Fellows, with the goal of expanding this number. They include:
- Arthur Caplan, the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Center for Bioethics.
Professor Sebastian Velez, an Evolutionary Biologist and a PhD candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
- Peter Derkx, Professor of Humanism and Worldviews at the University of Humanistics (Utrecht, Netherlands). His main fields of interest are the theory of humanism as a worldview, and science, technology and meanings of life.
- Sikivu Hutchison, editor of blackfemlens.org. She is a leading figure in African-American humanism and a popular blogger and speaker, and a commentator for KPFK 90.7 FM.
- Howard Radest, chair of the Biomedical Ethics Committee of Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, and consultant to the Ethics Committee of the South Carolina Medical Association.
- Sharon Welch is an internationally known scholar with award winning work related to issue of social ethics and culture. She is currently Provost and Professor of Religion and Society at Meadville Lombard Theological School.
- Monica Miller, post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct faculty at Columbia University. Dr. Miller’s work involves attention to cultural studies and theories of social interaction.
The Fellows provide the intellectual resource by means of which the Institute seeks to address issues such as: politics (Church and State); social advancement; humanism and morality; global humanism; humanism and the sciences; humanist analysis of cultural developments.
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