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- About the Mudd Center
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Programs and Events
- 2025-2026: Taking Place: Land Use and Environmental Impact
- 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.
Senior Program Coordinator
Kate Saacke
Senior Program Coordinator
- Mattingly House 205
- Email: ksaacke@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4074
Mudd Postdoctoral Ethics Fellow
Daniel Ranweiler
Mudd Postdoctoral Ethics Fellow
- Mattingly House 202
- Email: dranweiler@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4237
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
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.
Jeffrey Kosky
Head of the Department, Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 203
- Email: koskyj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8930
Professor Kosky’s courses study religion and humanistic inquiry, secularity and Christianity. His research interests include spirituality and contemporary art, the question of happiness, and the borders of philosophy and religion.
Emily Landry
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
- Huntley Hall 104
- Email: elandry@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8608
Suzette Malveaux
Roger D. Groot Professor of Law
- Sydney Lewis Hall 461
- Email: smalveaux@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8524
The Mudd Center
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Washington and Lee University
209 Mattingly House
Lexington, VA 24450