| Seumas Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University (joint position), Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University (1994- ), and Foundation Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Public Ethics: An Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre (2000-2007). He was Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University 1994-1999. His extensive publications include writings on social action and institutions, terrorism, business ethics and police ethics. He has also been awarded numerous competitive grants and consultancies. Professor Dali Yang (Ph.D., Princeton, 1993) is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the politics and political economy of China. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); and Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996). He is also editor of Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (World Scientific, 2007) and co-editor and a contributor to Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is a member of various committees and organizations and serves on the editorial boards of Asian Perspective, American Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and World Politics. Professor Kipnis has been a member of the Department since 1979, having previously taught at Lake Forest College and Purdue University. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago where he also studied law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and a Humanist-Resident at the Department of Pediatrics at Kapiolani Women's and Children's Hospital in Honolulu, a project funded by the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities and other local foundations. He has also been a Humanist in-Residence at the G. N. Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai. Professor Kipnis was instrumental in developing a code of ethics for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a 60,000-member professional association of pre-school educators. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL). He has published works on property rights and on legal ethics. A recent paper on the surgical treatment of intersexuality received the GIRES award for research on gender identity. Professor Kipnis is currently doing work on blackmail and on ethics in prison health care. |