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Our faculty\nmembers are known internationally for their research and teaching. As a student\nin our graduate program, you may work with any of the scholars in the School of\nHistory, Philosophy, and Religion. The below selection of faculty members\nprovides a snapshot of our particular expertise and interests in science,\ntechnology, health, and medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Campbell, Courtney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A principal reason Professor\nCampbell came to OSU was that he saw Oregon as a social laboratory for many of\nthe difficult ethical issues in medicine. He has authored numerous articles on\nthe controversial Oregon Death with Dignity Act and on the Oregon Health Plan.\nHe also authored papers for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on the\nethical questions of human cloning and of research on human tissue. His most\nrecent book is Bearing Witness: Religious\nMeanings in Bioethics<\/em> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clough, Sharyn <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharyn Clough teaches courses\nin the study of knowledge, especially scientific knowledge. Her research\nexamines the complex ways in which science and politics are interwoven, and the\nnotions of objectivity that can be salvaged once this complexity is\nacknowledged. More recently she has been investigating the importance of basic\npeace skills for deliberation about science policy. She is the author\nof Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science\nStudies<\/em>, and the editor of Siblings Under the Skin: Feminism,\nSocial Justice and Analytic Philosophy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Figueroa, Robert Melchior<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rob Figueroa focuses on\nenvironmental justice issues. With Sandra Harding, he co-edited Science\nand Other Cultures: Issues in the Philosophies of Science and Technology<\/em>.\nHis current transdisciplinary research continues to be with Latinx communities\nin the US; in addition to, indigenous populations addressing joint-management\nof National Parks and environmental heritage, as well as refugee populations in\nterms of environmental and climate refugees, conditions in refugee camps, and\nrelocated communities. He consistently draws upon environmental identity,\nheritage, cultural continuance, and restorative empathetic relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamblin, Jacob Darwin <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob Darwin Hamblin writes\nabout the history and politics of science, technology, and environmental\nissues. His writing has appeared in the New York Times<\/em>, Science<\/em>, Salon<\/em>,\nand The American Scientist<\/em>, and his peer-reviewed essays have\nappeared in Isis<\/em>, Diplomatic History<\/em>, Environmental\nHistory<\/em>, Technology and Culture<\/em>, and many other academic\njournals. His books include Oceanographers\nand the Cold War<\/em> (2005), Poison in\nthe Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age<\/em>\n(2008), and Arming Mother Nature: the\nBirth of Catastrophic Environmentalism<\/em> (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hogg, Trina <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trina Hogg is a specialist in\nAfrican history and legal history. She is writing a book about Sierra Leone,\nincluding the impact of rail technology on African lives in the early twentieth\ncentury. She is developing courses that touch on the history of technology in\nAfrican and environmental history, and teaches on a graduate seminar on the\nhistory of science and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jenkins, Stephanie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stephanie Jenkins received\nher dual Ph.D. in Philosophy and Women’s Studies from Pennsylvania State\nUniversity in 2012. Her dissertation, Disabling Ethics: A\nGenealogy of Ability<\/em>, argues for a genealogy-based ethics that departs from\ntraditional bioethical approaches to disability. Her research and\nteaching interests include 20th century continental philosophy (especially\nFrench), feminist philosophy, disability studies, critical animal studies, and\nethics. She is also the creator of the first Phish Studies conference,\nheld at OSU in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaplan, Jonathan <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Kaplan came to\nOregon State University in 2003. Prior to his position at OSU, he served as an\nAssistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville,\na Lecturer in Philosophy at Stanford University, and was a post-doctoral fellow\nwith the Stanford University Biomedical Ethics Center’s Program in Genomics,\nEthics and Society. He is the author of Making\nSense of Evolution<\/em> (co-authored with Massimo Pigliucci) and The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic\nResearch<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kopperman, Paul <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Kopperman teaches\ncourses on the history of medicine and other topics, including the popular \u201cWhy\nWar?\u201d course. His research focuses on British history, 1500-1800; British\nmilitary, 1650-1800; Enlightenment medicine; and the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leibowitz, Flo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Flo joined the OSU faculty in\n1977. Her primary research field is aesthetics. Her scholarly\nwriting has appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature<\/em>,\nthe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism<\/em>, Persistence\nof Vision<\/em>, and in anthologized collections. Flo teaches courses in\nintroductory philosophy, aesthetics, and metaphysics and created the\ndepartment’s course in “Art and Morality.” She was a winner of the\n1987 American Society for Aesthetics essay competition and wrote a series of\nop-ed essays for the Portland Oregonian<\/em> on art and morality\nduring the public-funding controversies of the 1990’s. Her present project\nexamines the aesthetics of the Hubble photographs and how they reflect, and\nhelp to shape, contemporary appreciations of nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mutschler, Ben <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ben Mutschler’s research and\nteaching interests include Colonial and Revolutionary America, the history of\nfamily and household, the history of poverty and welfare, the history of\ndisease, and most recently the history of disability. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Richards, Linda <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Linda\nRichards focuses on courses and research connected to peace activism, war, and issues\nconnected to nuclear energy and disarmament. She is a winner of the Phyllis Lee\nAward for commitment to social justice. Her essays have been published in Peace & Change<\/em>, Distillations<\/em>, and Historia\nScientiarum<\/em>. She is the co-PI on the National Science Foundation grant \u201cReconstructing\nNuclear Environments and the Downwinders Case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarbacker, Stuart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stuart Ray Sarbacker\nspecializes in the Comparative Study of Religion with a focus on Indic religion\nand philosophy. His work is centered on the relationships between the religious\nand philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, especially\nwith respect to the practices of yoga and tantra (both bodily disciplines and\ncontemplative practices). His current project focuses on the ways in which the\nphilosophical and ethical issues associated with self-transformation in Indian\ncontemplative traditions mirror those arising from emergent technologies of\nhuman augmentation. His books include Sam\u0101dhi:\nthe Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga<\/em> (2005) and The Eight Limbs of Yoga: A Handbook for\nLiving Yoga Philosophy<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tattersall, Mason <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mason Tattersall focuses on\ncomplex systems of understanding (such as philosophical, scientific, and\nreligious systems) and their structural dynamics. He is interested in the ways\nin which human beings understand their world and the different historical\nmanifestations of such understanding. He teaches World History, European\nHistory, the theory and methods of historical research, and the History of\nScience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thompson, Allen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Allen Thompson\u2019s work broadens our conception of environmental virtue and moral responsibility as a part of understanding human excellence in adapting to emerging and anthropogenic global environmental conditions. In addition to authoring many journal articles and book chapters, Thompson is the lead editor of\u00a0Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future<\/em>\u00a0(MIT, 2012) and co-editor of\u00a0The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics<\/em>\u00a0(2015). Thompson has co-authored articles with ecologists, land managers, geographers, and atmospheric scientists, as well as other philosophers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n von Germeten, Nicole<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicole von Germeten\u2019s work focuses on sexuality, race, gender, religion, and legal history, especially in Spain and the Iberian empires. Her publications include books and essays on Afro-descended populations in Spanish America, focusing on Catholic brotherhoods and Jesuit proselytization. Her scholarship has also explored transactional sex, honor, the history of emotions, fantasy, fashion, violence, witchcraft, sodomy, suicide, and penitential practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our faculty members are known internationally for their research and teaching. As a student in our graduate program, you may work with any of the scholars in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion. The below selection of faculty members provides a snapshot of our particular expertise and interests in science, technology, health, and medicine.… Continue reading