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Programs and Events
- 2024-2025: How We Live and Die: Stories, Values, and Communities
- 2023-2024: Ethics of Design
- 2022-2023: Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care
- 2021-2022: Daily Ethics: How Individual Choices and Habits Express Our Values and Shape Our World
- 2020-2021: Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- 2019-2020: The Ethics of Technology
- 2018-2019: The Ethics of Identity
- 2017-2018: Equality and Difference
- 2016-2017: Markets and Morals
- 2015-2016: The Ethics of Citizenship
- 2014-2015: Race and Justice in America
- Leadership Lab
- Mudd Undergraduate Journal of Ethics
- Highlights
- Mudd Center Fellows Program
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Director
Melissa R. Kerin
Professor of Art History
- Mattingly House 209
- Email: kerinm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8858
Kerin teaches courses in South Asian and East Asian art and architecture. Her research focuses on the intricate and multifaceted relationships between art and identity formation, cultural memory and religious praxis.
Mudd Postdoctoral Ethics Fellow
Rachel Levit Ades
Mudd Center for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mattingly House 202
- Email: rlevitades@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4237
Senior Program Coordinator
Kate Saacke
Senior Program Coordinator
- Mattingly House 205
- Email: ksaacke@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4074
Advisory Board
Christopher Brown
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Newcomb Hall 308
- Email: cbrown2@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8387
Isra El-beshir
Director of Art Museum & Galleries
Kyle Friend
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Science Addition A427
- Email: friendk@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8616
Kyle Friend teaches courses on genetic engineering and biochemistry at all levels. His research uses mouse embryonic stem cells to investigate how mRNA translation and stability are regulated as stem cells differentiate into other cell types.
Megan F. Hess
Associate Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 214
- Email: hessm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8370
Hess is a 1997 alumna who teaches courses in auditing, accounting ethics and corporate sustainability. Before becoming a professor, she spent 12 years working in the industry with a focus on investigating financial statement fraud.
Li Kang
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Washington Hall 319
- Email: lkang@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8304
Kang teaches Introduction to Theories of Knowledge and Reality, and Chinese Buddhist Philosophy. Her research deals with metaphysics, Buddhist philosophy, Chinese philosophy and philosophy of science.
The Mudd Center
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Washington and Lee University
209 Mattingly House
Lexington, VA 24450