Advisory Board for Spiritual
Transformation Scientific Research Program
Solomon H. Katz
Solomon H. Katz, principal investigator for the Spiritual
Transformation Scientific Research Program, is president of the
Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. He is professor of
Physical Anthropology and director of the Krogman Center for Research
in Child Growth and Development at the University of Pennsylvania.
His work in the field of science and religion spans 30 years with
leadership in the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS),
in which he served as president from 1977 to 1979 and 1981 to 1984,
and as associate editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.
Katz was also president of the Center for the Advanced Study of
Religion and Science in Chicago from 1989-2002 and served on the
advisory board of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
from its inception in 1995-2002. Katz is also a leading expert on
the anthropology of food. He is editor for the book series Food
and Nutrition in History and Anthropology published by Gordon and
Breach and is currently the editor-in-chief of the 4-volume Encyclopedia
of Food and Culture to be published by Scribners at the end of 2002.
David Hufford
David Hufford, collaborator on the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, is professor of Medical Humanities,
with joint appointments in Behavioral Science and Family Medicine,
at the Penn State College of Medicine, where he is also director
of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. At the University
of Pennsylvania he is adjunct professor of Religious Studies and
a faculty member of the Master in Bioethics Program. Dr. Hufford
has taught about religion, spirituality and health at the College
of Medicine since 1974. He won a Templeton Foundation Faith &
Medicine Award in 1995, the first year of that program to support
religion and health courses in medical schools, and he has taught
that course to fourth-year medical students since that time. At
Penn he has taught courses in spiritual belief and in alternative
medicine since 1979, and currently leads an initiative to develop
a Center for Spirituality, Religion and Health at Penn, connecting
the School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences.
Byron Johnson
Byron Johnson, collaborator on the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, is distinguished senior fellow and
director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil
Society (CRRUCS), and director of the Office for the Study and Prevention
of Domestic Violence, both at the University of Pennsylvania. He
is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior fellow
at the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality.
Before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Johnson directed
the Center for Crime and Justice Policy at Vanderbilt University,
where he remains a senior scholar in the Vanderbilt Institute for
Public Policy Studies. Johnson's research focuses on quantifying
the effectiveness of faith-based organizations to confront various
social problems. His research also examines the dynamics of domestic
violence with a view to developing coordinated community responses
that will reduce this form of violent behavior. Johnson and CRRUCS
colleagues are launching a groundbreaking study of faith-based and
secular mentoring to Philadelphia's most disadvantaged and at-risk
population - the children of prisoners.
Edward F. Foulks
Edward F. Foulks, member of the advisory board for
the Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program, is the
Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and Associate
Dean of Graduate Medical Education at Tulane University School of
Medicine. He is the current president of the Orleans Parish Medical
Society and past-president of The Mental Health Association in Metropolitan
New Orleans. Winner of numerous awards for his work in psychiatry,
Foulks is a leading advocate for an inclusive, cross-cultural perspective
in mental health care. His recent publications include Personality
Disorders and Culture: Clinical and Conceptual Interactions (1998)
and the Cultural Issues section for the Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
(2002).
Dan Gottlieb
Voices in the Family host, Dan Gottlieb, Ph.D., is
praised by both listeners and colleagues in the mental health community
for his ability to create a safe and dignified setting in which
people can share their stories, while making difficult issues understandable
to a wide range of listeners. Gottlieb, host of Voices on WHYY-FM
since 1985, is a family therapist with offices in Philadelphia,
PA and Cherry Hill, NJ. He is a clinical assistant professor in
the Department of Mental Health Sciences at Hahnemann University
in Philadelphia, as wells as a faculty member at the Family Institute
of Philadelphia, where he supervises advanced clinical students.
He previously served as director of a drug clinic for the Philadelphia
Psychiatric Center, was the area supervisor for an alcoholism program
run by the West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium, and was a
clinical psychologist at Mercy-Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia.
"Empathy is my strong suit," says Gottlieb, who is a quadiplegic
as a result of injuries suffered in a car accident 13 years ago.
"I have become intimate with both physical and emotional paralysis,
so when somebody walks into my office and feels paralyzed, I understand."
Gottlieb earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology at Temple
University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Heed University.
He has conducted numerous professional workshops on family therapy
and is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences. Gottlieb
is the author of Family Matters: Healing in the Heart of the Family
(Dutton). The paperback version, Voices in the Family, is published
by Signet. He writes a twice-monthly column, "On Healing,"
for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
William Grassie
William Grassie, Ph.D. is founder and executive director,
Metanexus Institute, <http://www.metanexus.net>, a Philadelphia-based
educational center promoting the constructive engagement of science
and religion. In that capacity, Grassie also serves as consulting
editor of Metanexus: The Online Forum on Science and Religion with
over 5400 subscribers in 57 different countries <http://www.metanexus.net>.
Grassie specializes in the philosophy of science and religion. He
received his doctorate from Temple University in 1994 and his BA
from Middlebury College in 1979. Grassie taught for five years in
the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University and is now
a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore
College. Prior to graduate school, Grassie worked for ten years
in social service and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C;
Jerusalem, Israel; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, PA. He is
the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants from the
American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship, and
the John Templeton Foundation. Grassie is a member of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers).
Philip Hefner
Philip Hefner, member of the advisory board for the
Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program, is emeritus
professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran School of Theology,
director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, and editor
of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Author of over 125 scholarly
articles and 7 books. Hefner is a leading figure in the field of
religion and science. His books include: The Human Factor: Evolution,
Culture, Religion (1993), Belonging and Alienation: Religious Foundations
for the Human Future (1976), and Changing Man: The Threat and the
Promise (1968). Hefner is also co-editor of When Worlds Converge:
Science and Religion in the Third Millennium (2001).
Joan D. Koss-Chioino
Dr. Koss-Chioino is a Professor of Anthropology and
affiliate of the Women’s Studies Department at Arizona State
University. She is also Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans and Research Professor in
the Department of Psychology, George Washington University where
she has a NIDA funded Postdoctoral Training Program. She developed
the Program in Medical Anthropology at A.S.U. and a concentration
in the Public Health Program, University of Arizona and Arizona
State University (now the School of Public Health).
As a medical anthropologist she works at the interface
between anthropology, psychiatry and psychology. Her primary interest
is the treatment of illness and emotional problems, whether traditional,
alternative or psychotherapeutic in Latino cultures in the U.S.,
Latin America, Spain and Thailand. Currently she is completing a
write up of her project on treatment research with Mexican American
youths and families in Arizona and has begun a study of emotion
regulation and depression among women in Andalucia, Spain. Her publications
include: Women as Healers, Women as Patients: Mental Health Care
and Traditional Healing in Puerto Rico (Westview Press, 1992), Working
With Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Minority
Children and Adolescents (Jossey Bass, 1992) and Working With Latino
Youth: Culture, Context and Development (Jossey Bass, 1999) these
two with Luis A. Vargas. An edited book, Medical Pluralism in the
Andes(Routledge Press)will be published in November, 2002.
Kenneth Pargament
Kenneth Pargament, member of the advisory board for
the Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program, is professor
of Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University and adjunct
professor of Psychology in the Counseling Psychology and Religion
Ph. D. program at Boston University. He has been a leading figure
in the effort to bring a more balanced view of religious life to
the attention of social scientists and health professionals. A prolific
researcher, Pargament has published extensively on the vital role
of religion in coping with stress and trauma. His numerous awards
include the William James Award for excellence in research in the
psychology of religion from Division 36 of the American Psychological
Association (APA), the Virginia Staudt Sexton Mentoring Award from
the APA for guiding and encouraging others in the field, and two
exemplary paper awards from the John Templeton Foundation. Currently,
he is busy studying how people come to see the sacred in their lives
and its implications for their health and wellbeing. He and his
colleagues are also involved in the design and evaluation of spiritually
integrated psychological interventions.
Lawrence E. Sullivan
Lawrence E. Sullivan, consultant to the Spiritual
Transformation Scientific Research Program, is director of the Center
for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. He specializes
in the study of ritual and ceremonial performance, with a special
focus on Central Africa and South America. He examines religious
beliefs and practices centered on health and healing. His book,
Icanchu's Drum (1990), received best book awards from the Association
of American Publishers and the American Council of Learned Societies.
He is associate editor of the 16-volume Encyclopedia of Religion
published by Macmillan, which received the Hawkins Prize and the
Dartmouth Medal from the American Library Association for the best
work in any category of publishing. He is past president of the
American Academy of Religion and recently he developed the concepts
and content for the Museum of World Religions in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Religions of Humanity book series, which Sullivan wrote with
Julien Ries and published with Jaca Book, received the 2000 Hans
Christian Andersen Prize for the Best Series in Children's Literature.
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow, consultant to the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, is Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor
of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion
at Princeton University. His recent books include After Heaven:
Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (2000), Loose Connections:
Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities (1998), and
Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of
Faith (2000). He has also edited the recent Encyclopedia of Politics
and Religion. Currently, he is researching the public role of American
mainline Protestantism since the 1960s and working on the contemporary
relationships among religion and the arts.
Speakers
Don Browning
Dr. Browning is the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus
of Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Divinity
School. Browning has interests in the relation of religious thought
to the social sciences, specifically in the way theological ethics
may employ sociology, psychology, and the social scientific study
of religion. A student of psychology, he has special interests in
psychoanalysis, self-psychology, object-relations theory, and evolutionary
psychology, and has written on the cultural, theological, and ethical
analysis of the modern psychologies. An interest in issues and methods
in practical theology led to his work, A Fundamental Practical Theology:
With Descriptive and Strategic Proposals. As Director of the Lilly
Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family, Professor Browning
is now working on issues pertaining to the shape and future of the
postmodern family. He has co-authored From Culture Wars to Common
Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate. He is an ordained
minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
John D. Castellani
Rev. Castellani is currently the President of Teen
Challenge International, USA in Springfield, Missouri. He has been
with this faith-based organization for 20 years, first serving as
a board member and regional representative, which in turn led to
leadership positions. He provides guidance and direction to an organization
which provides a variety of outreach programs for youths who are
at-risk of becoming involved in gangs or drug abuse, as well as
programs for families and individuals whose lives have been damaged
by addiction. The organization also provides a 1-year residential
program for over 4000 young men and women. Teen Challenge is acclaimed
for its effectiveness in helping drug addicts and alcoholics transform
their lives and become productive, contributing members of society
and their families. In his position as President, he oversees in
excess of 180 centers throughout the United States. Each month the
National office receives in excess of 400 requests for help. Rev.
Castellani also serves as a leader for the developing work of Teen
Challenge International, World. At present there are over 200 centers
outside the United States in 70 countries. He is a member of the
Board of Directors, as well as a consultant and trainer for leaders
in various countries.
John DiIulio
John J. DiIulio Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership
Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. DiIulio is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan
Institute, senior counsel to Public/Private Ventures, and founding
director of the Center for Public Management at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C.
Dr. DiIulio's research focuses on public management, U.S. politics,
faith-based social programs, criminal justice, and government reform.
He is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Body
Count: Moral Poverty...and How to Win America's War Against Crime
and Drugs (Simon & Schuster, 1996); Improving Government Performance:
An Owner's Manual (Brookings Institution, 1993); American Government:
Institutions and Policies (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998); and Medicaid
and Devolution: A View from the States (Brookings Institution, 1998).
He has also written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington
Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and major newspapers,
and articles for popular magazines including The New Republic, The
National Review Commentary, and many more. He is contributing editor
at The Weekly Standard.
Dr. DiIulio served as the Director of the White House Office of
Faith Based and Community Initiatives and Assistant to the President
of the United States. Dr. DiIulio has chaired the American Political
Science Association's standing committee on professional ethics.
He is the winner of the David N. Kershaw Award of the Association
of Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Leonard D. White
Award of the American Political Science Association. He is also
a founding director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban
Civil Society.
An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and
Sciences, Dr. DiIulio has a bachelor's degree in political science
and in economics and a master's degree in political science-public
policy from Penn. He received his doctorate from Harvard University.
George Gallup, Jr.
Mr. Gallup is Chairman of The George H. Gallup International
Institute, and Senior Scientist and member of the Council of GIREC
(Gallup International Research and Education Center). He has been
in the field of polling for half a century, serving as President
of The Gallup Poll for many years, as well as Co-Chairman of The
Gallup Organization, Inc.
The focus of much of Mr. Gallup’s work over
the years has been on religion and spirituality. He has been the
project director on more than 100 special surveys in these areas.
He believes that the new frontier of survey research is the “inner
life” and that many discoveries in this area lie ahead.
Mr. Gallup is a Trustee of the Templeton Foundation,
the National Fatherhood Initiative, The Living Pulpit, and the Trinity
Episcopal School for Ministry. He is on the board of advisors of
the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Society, and of Marriage
Savers. He received his BA degree from Princeton University, Department
of Religion in 1954. He holds seven honorary degrees.
Mr. Gallup is author of numerous books, the most recent
of which are: The Gallup Guide – Reality Check for Churches
in the 21st Century; Surveying the Religious Landscape;
The Next American Spirituality; Growing up Scared in
America, and The Saints Among Us.
Michael Green
Dr. Green is a physician and bioethicist at the Penn
State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He attended
medical school at the University of Illinois, completed residency
in internal medicine at Northwestern University, and fellowships
in medical ethics at the University of Chicago's Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics, and in general internal medicine and medical ethics
at the University of Wisconsin. He is currently an associate professor
in the Departments of Humanities and Internal Medicine, where he
cares for patients, teaches medical students and residents, and
conducts research in medical ethics. His current research interests
include informed consent to genetic testing for breast cancer, residency
reform and ethics education, interactive technology and advance
care planning, and rationing of expensive medical technology.
Ralph W. Hood Jr.
Dr. Hood is Professor of Psychology at the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has a long standing interest in
the empirical study of religion. His research has focused upon religious
experience, especially mystical experience. In addition he continues
extensive field work on the serpent handling holiness sects of Appalachia
He is a past president of the Psychology of Religion division of
APA and a recipient of the William James award from that division.
He was involved in the creation of the International Journal for
the Psychology of Religion. He served as Book Review Editor and
also as Co-editor. He is a past editor of the Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion. He is currently a board member of the Internationalle
Gesellschaft Für Religionpsychologie. Recent books include
two edited volumes published by Religious Education Press: Handbook
of Religious Experience and Measures of Religiosity (with Peter
Hill). Dimension of Mystical Experiences has just been published
by Rodopi. Currently he is completing a third edition of The Psychology
of Religion: An Empirical Approach (with Bernie Spilka and Bruce
Hunsberger) to be published by Guilford Press.
Wayne B. Jonas
Dr. Jonas is Director of the Samueli Institute for
Information Biology, and an Associate Professor in the Department
of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Jonas has conducted research in
a variety of areas focusing on health promotion and disease prevention,
complementary medicine, spirituality research quality and the biological
effects of ultra-low doses. Dr. Jonas was previously the director
of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes
of Health and the director of the Medical Research Fellowship at
the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He has served as Chair
of the Program Advisory Council for the NIH Office of Alternative
Medicine, director of a WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional
Medicine, a member of the Cochrane Collaboration’s Group on
the Quality of Controlled Clinical Trials, and numerous university,
NIH and government committees and review groups. He currently serves
on the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Policy. In addition to his conventional medical training,
Dr. Jonas has received training in a variety of complementary therapies
including diet and nutritional therapy, homeopathy, mind/body methods,
electro-acupuncture and clinical pastoral education. He has authored
over 140 publications (including the major Textbook Essentials of
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins, 1999), made hundreds of presentations around the world,
and serves on the editorial boards of 7 peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Jonas is married with three children and lives in Alexandria,
Virginia.
Harold G. Koenig
Dr. Koenig is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry
and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical
Center. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion\Spirituality
and Health and the Executive Editor of the Haworth Pastoral Press
mental health and religion book program.
Bernard McGinn
Dr. McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor
at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He received
an S.T.L. in Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and
a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in History of Ideas. He has taught
at the University of Chicago since 1969. His major academic concerns
have been in the history of Christian theology, especially in the
medieval period. Much of his writing has been in the area of apocalyptic
movements and thinkers, and in the history of Christian spirituality
and mysticism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Classics of Western
Spirituality (103 volumes to date; Paulist Press), and an editor
of the Christian volumes in the World Encyclopedia of Spirituality
(Crossroad-Herder). He is currently involved in a multi-volume history
of Christian mysticism entitled The Presence of God (Crossroad-Herder),
three volumes of which have appeared (1992, 1994, 1998). He is a
Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Newberg
Dr. Newberg is Director of Clinical Nuclear Medicine,
Director of NeuroPET Research, and Assistant Professor in the Department
of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
in 1993, Dr. Newberg trained in Internal Medicine at the Graduate
Hospital in Philadelphia, and subsequently completed a Fellowship
in Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology, at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nuclear
Medicine, and Nuclear Cardiology. His current research now largely
focuses on how brain function is associated with various mental
states – in particular, the relationship between brain function
and mystical or religious experiences. Dr. Newberg's extensive teaching
credentials include leading several stress-management programs for
the University of Pennsylvania Health System and teaching the physiological
basis of various alternative medicine techniques, the neurophysiology
of religious experience and the importance of spirituality in medical
practice. He is a co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific
Study of Meditation. He has also received a Science and Religion
Course Award from CTNS. Dr Newberg has published numerous articles
and book chapters and is author, with the late Eugene D'Aquili,
of The Mystical Mind (1999) and Why God Won't Go Away (2001). He
was also an associate director of the Neuroscience Section for the
recent consensus conference on Scientific Research on Spirituality
and Health sponsored by the National Institute of Healthcare Research.
Wesley Peach
Dr. Peach pastors a French Evangelical Protestant
church near Montreal. His congregation, which started as a home
Bible study, is composed of mostly young families who have experienced
spiritual transformation as part of their personal journey in a
culture going through rapid mutation. Peach recently completed a
Ph.D. in pastoral theology at the Université de Montréal
under the Catholic priest and sociologist Jacques Grand-Maison.
His dissertation, entitled "Intinéraires de conversion"
(Conversion Journeys), won the "Prix du Centenaire" at
UdeM for the best dissertation in theology in 1999. He published
a popularized version in French with Éditions Fides, a Catholic
publishing house, in 2001. His study attempts to integrate Anthony
F. C. Wallace’s "Revitalization Theory" with recent
trends in Evangelical theology on conversion. He has also used Wallace’s
theory to elucidate the history of a recent Evangelical "revitalization
movement" in Quebec. He gives conferences to pastors and teaches
pastoral theology at the Faculté Évangélique,
the French speaking seminary of Acadia University.
Karl E. Peters
Karl E. Peters is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
and Religion, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. From 1979-1990
he was the Editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Currently
he is the Coeditor. He also has been an adjunct professor at the
University of Hartford and Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. His
book Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God was published
by Trinity Press International in August, 2002.
Karl has a B.A. in philosophy and English from Carroll
College (Wisconsin), a M.Div. in systematic theology from McCormick
Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion (specializing
in issues in religion and science) from Columbia University
He has taught introductory courses in Christianity,
Western Religions, Asian Religions, Science and Religion, and Philosophical
Ethics; advanced undergraduate courses in Environmental Ethics,
Asian Philosophy, Buddhist Dialogue with Jews, Christians and Secular
Humanists, World Religions and the Environment, Philosophy of Religion,
Evolution and Creation, Religion and Psychology, and Religious and
Philosophical Issues in Medicine; and graduate level courses in
Religion and Science.
He has published several papers in science and religion,
including "Evolutionary Naturalism: Survival as a Value,"
"Religion and an Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge," "A
Social-Ecological Understanding of the Human Self, " "Empirical
Theology and Science," and "(Neurotheology and Evolutionary
Theology: Reflections on the Mystical Mind by Eugene d’Aquili
and Andrew Newberg.”
Karl has been Co-chair of the Theology and Science
Group of the American Academy of Religion, and the President of
the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. Currently he is
the President of the Center for Advanced Study in Science and Religion,
and he is a Board Member of the Metanexus Institute on Religion
and Science.
Stephen G. Post
Dr. Post, Ph.D., is Professor, Center for Biomedical
Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and
President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. He is
also Senior Scholar at the Becket Institute at St. Hugh's College,
Oxford University. He serves on the National Ethics Advisory Panel
of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, and
is Ethics Editor for the Journal Alzheimer Disease and Associated
Disorders. Dr. Post received his doctorate in religious ethics and
moral philosophy from the University of Chicago Divinity School.
In 1998 he received the annual award for outstanding public service
from the Alzheimer's Association.
In the field of bioethics, Post is both a generalist
and a specialist with a focus on neurology and dementia. He is Editor-in-Chief
of the definitive reference work in the field, The Encyclopedia
of Bioethics, 5 volumes, 3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, 2004),
and served earlier as Associate Editor for the second edition of
this work. His more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in bioethics
spanning a wide variety of issues have appeared in leading venues
such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals
of Internal Medicine, the Hastings Center Report, and the American
Journal of Psychiatry.
Another area of scholarship, which shapes all of Post's
work, focuses on love, altruism, and compassion in the context of
scientific research (neurology, evolutionary psychology, healthcare,
pedagogy, and human development), philosophy, religion, ethics,
and the professions. He has written several books on this topic,
most recently co-editing a book entitled Altruism and Altruistic
Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University
Press, 2002).
Arthur Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz has directed the John Templeton Foundation's
character development programs since 1995. He is responsible for
the foundation's grant award programs in the area of character development
at both the secondary and postsecondary levels of education. He
also serves as project director for The Templeton Guide: Colleges
that Encourage Character Development. This biennial guidebook will
be available in bookstores in Fall 1999.
Previous to joining the Foundation, Dr. Schwartz taught
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also served for
several years as director of dropout prevention programs for the
School District of Philadelphia, and in that capacity was recognized
in 1990 by President George Bush in a White House ceremony for his
successful efforts to reduce school dropouts. Since 1992, Dr. Schwartz
has concentrated his research on adolescent moral development. He
has published papers in the Harvard Educational Review, Journal
of Moral Education, and Educational Record, among others. He frequently
is asked to lecture on the effectiveness of character education
programs for high school and college students.
Dr. Schwartz received his doctorate in moral education
from Harvard University. He holds two master's degrees in education,
one from Harvard and one from Temple University. He is married with
two young children, loves musical theater, and is an avid reader
of abolition history.
Zoharah Simmons
Dr. Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of
Religion at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is also
affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department at UF. Simmons
received her BA from Antioch University in Human Services and her
M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion with a specific focus on Islam from Temple
University. Additionally, she received a Graduate Certificate in
Women’s Studies from Temple. Simmons’ primary academic
focus in Islam is on the Shari’ah (Islamic Law) and its impact
on Muslim women, contemporarily. Simmons spent two years (1996-1998)
living and conducting dissertation research in the Middle East countries
of Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. The areas of focus for her
teaching include: Islam, Women, Religion and Society; Women and
Islam and African American Religious Traditions. In addition to
her academic studies, Simmons was a disciple in Sufism (the mystical
stream in Islam) for seventeen years (1971-1986) under the guidance
of Sheikh Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyadeen, a Sufi Mystic from Sri
Lanka, until his passing. She remains an active member of the Bawa
Muhaiyadeen Fellowship and Mosque and student of this great Saint’s
teachings. Simmons has a long history in the area of civil rights,
human rights and peace work. She was on the staff of the American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace, justice, human
rights and international development organization headquartered
in Philadelphia, Pa. for twenty-three years. During her early adult
years as a college student and thereafter, she was active with the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and spent seven
years working full time on Voter Registration and desegregation
activities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama during the height
of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s.
Thomas W. Smith
Dr. Smith is a nationally recognized expert in survey
research specializing in the study of social change and survey methodology.
Since 1980 he has been co-principal investigator of the National
Data Program for the Social Sciences and director of its General
Social Survey (GSS). He is also co-founder and Secretary General
(1997-2003) of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The
ISSP is the largest cross-national collaboration in the social sciences.
Smith has authored over 400 scholarly papers. His work in the social
change area includes both wide ranging studies that integrate trends
across many different topics and specialized studies on such matters
as public attitudes towards the most important national problem,
family structure and family values, inter-group relations, religious
change, and sexual behavior. He has also written on virtually every
aspect of survey methods including non-response, question wording,
nonattitudes, order and context, respondent understanding, and test/retest
reliability. Smith has taught at Purdue University, Northwestern
University, the University of Chicago, and Tel Aviv University.
Smith has served on the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Survey
Measurement of Subjective Phenomena, the Board of Directors of the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's Subcommittee on Monitoring the AIDS Epidemic.
He was awarded the 1994 Worcester Prize by the World Association
for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for the best article on public
opinion, the 2000 Innovators Award of the American Association for
Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and the 2002 AAPOR Award for Exceptionally
Distinguished Achievement.
Robert A. F. Thurman
Dr. Thurman has been listed by Time Magazine as one
of the 25 most influential people in America. Professor Thurman
holds the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the
Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia
University. After education at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he studied
Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism for almost thirty years as a personal
student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He received Upasika ordination
in 1964 and Vajracharya ordination in 1971. He was the first American
monk ordained by the Dalai Lama in India. He has translated many
classic texts from Tibetan to English and is a co-founder of Tibet
House in New York City, a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving
Tibetan culture. He has written both scholarly and popular books
and has lectured widely all over the world. His special interest
is the exploration of the Indo-Tibetan philosophical and psychological
traditions, with a view to their relevance to parallel currents
of contemporary thought and science.
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy
and Mysticism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978), and
a BA in Religious Studies from SUNY in Stony Brook, New York (1974).
She is currently an Associate Professor of History in Arizona State
University. Prior to this post, she held positions at Indiana University
(Bloomington), Emory University (Atlanta), Columbia University (New
York), and Hebrew Union College (New York). Prof. Tirosh-Samuelson
has published numerous essays in Jewish intellectual history. She
is the author of Between Worlds – The Life and Work of Rabbi
David ben Judah Messer Leon (SUNY Press, 1991), which received the
Award of the Hebrew University for the best work in Jewish history
for 1991, and the editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and
Revealed Word (Harvard University Press, 2002). Two other works
are still in press: Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge
and Well-Being (Hebrew Union College Press) and an edited volume
On Being Human: Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy (Indiana University
Press). Prof. Tirosh-Samuelson is on the Board of Directors of the
Association of Jewish Studies, the Academic Advisory Board of Hebrew
Union College-Institute of Religion, the editorial board of the
Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, and the editorial board
of a book series for Wisconsin University Press. She does consulting
work for the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture. In addition to these academic activities,
she has conducted seminars and workshops for the Wexner Heritage
Foundation and is a frequent scholar-in residence in Reform and
Conservative congregations.
Lynn G. Underwood
Dr. Underwood is Vice President of the Fetzer Institute,
a non-profit private foundation, where she develops collaborative
research projects with other organizations and does program planning,
review, and evaluation. She received her Ph.D in Epidemiology from
Queens University School of Medicine in the United Kingdom following
medical studies at the University of Iowa School of Medicine. She
spent 10 years in the field of cancer epidemiology doing research
into pathogenesis, prevention, and early detection. Subsequent work
in study design led to teaching clinical trials at Case Western
Medical School in the Department of Epidemiology. She co-edited
Measuring Stress, a text intended as a tool to help in study designs
examining the interface between stress and health, published by
Oxford University Press. Current research interests include the
role of various dimensions of religiousness and spirituality in
living with disability.
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