Director of Brady Scholars Program; Weinberg College, Philosophy
Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She has written on love, political liberalism, Kant’s moral and political philosophy and his philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. She is currently working on two book projects, the first concerning valuing attitudes and the second on the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch.
Center for Leadership Director
Adam Goodman directs Northwestern University’s Center for Leadership, which offers academic and applied leadership development programs for undergraduate students, Ph.D. students and high potential staff. He’s a faculty member and teaches leadership courses in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and also teaches leadership coaching in the Kellogg School of Management and teamwork and decision making in the School of Communication. Goodman is founder of Catapult, a spin-off from his research building a data intensive enterprise-wide web portal for leadership, coaching and teamwork assessment. In addition to Catapult, his current projects include the development of 6 Leadership Questions® (an assessment and learning tool) and training programs for leadership coaching. An active consultant today and for over 25 years, he has advised over 100 CEOs, senior officers, executive teams and boards of directors and given hundreds of invited speeches and workshops in the United States and around the world. Goodman earned a Masters Degree in management and a Ph.D. in leadership from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, where he was a Presidential Fellow.
Weinberg College, Philosophy
Richard Kraut is the Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities. He holds appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Classics. Having received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago before moving to Northwestern in 1995. His interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Outside of academia, he tries his hand at the piano and tennis, and enjoys novels, plays, opera, and chamber music.
Weinberg College, Political Science
S. Sara Monoson is the author of Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy which was awarded a Foundations Book Prize by the American Political Science Association, as well as numerous articles on Greek political theory in historical context and classical receptions in the US, especially the history of adaptations of Greek sources and ideas in American political discourse (e.g., on abolition, free speech, the cold war, civil rights). Her current research includes studies of Socrates’ military service in light of contemporary understandings of war trauma and PTSD and a book in progress, Socrates in the Vernacular, on the uses of the story of Socrates n 20th and 21st century popular media. She also directs the collaborative "Classicizing Chicago Project: a local history of classical antiquity," (http://classicizingchicago.northwestern.edu) and is a founding director of the Research Workshop in Classical Receptions at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Weinberg College, Philosophy
Mark Sheldon is Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Philosophy and currently serves in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Program, Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his PhD from Brandeis University, where he was awarded a Sachar Fellowship to study at Oxford University. A fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and Senior Policy Analyst at the American Medical Association. he currently serves as adjunct faculty and ethicist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Sheldon has published and presented talks on a variety of issues including informed consent, confidentiality, the forced transfusion of children of Jehovah's Witnesses, children as organ donors, disclosure, and the use of Nazi research. He has contributed book chapters and published in a variety of journals including The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Hastings Center Report, The Philosophical Forum, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has served as guest editor of two journals - Theoretical Ethics and Bioethics and The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He has served a three-year term as a member of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine of the American Philosophical Association, and for 19 years was co-editor of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. He also served as a member of the Task Force on Genetics for the Illinois Humanities Council.
