BRADY SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE

Faculty Advisory Board

Richard Kraut

Brady Program Director, 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.

Kyla Ebels-Duggan

Weinberg College, Philosophy

Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy.  She works on issues in moral and political philosophy.  Recently, some of her work has focused on the intersection of these areas with questions in the philosophy of education.  She is interested in how to understand the interaction between our responsibility for children we raise and their responsibility for themselves, where to locate authority and responsibility for communicating value commitments to the next generation, the sense in which parents and educators ought to aim to foster autonomy, and the role of articulating reasons in moral education and development.  She is also interested in the implications of the answers to these questions for broader issues in moral psychology, value theory, and political philosophy. 

Adam Goodman

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.

Sara Monoson

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.  

Mark Sheldon

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.