Lucy Atkinson (PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison) is an associate professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising & PR in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research looks at communication in the context of sustainability and the environment. She focuses on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
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Dr. Bain is an Associate Professor of Art Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on the intersection of theory with practice in art education. More specifically, her research examines the preparation and development of art teachers, both at the preservice and inservice levels, with topics including the development of teacher identity, curricular development, technology integration, arts integration, and material culture.
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Cara Biasucci is a filmmaker, author, and educator. She is Creator and Director of Ethics Unwrapped, and Director of Ethics Education at the Center for Leadership and Ethics at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Biasucci was a freelance filmmaker for more than a decade in Washington, D.C., where she wrote, produced, and directed films for television, museums, and K-12 schools. Her clients included Discovery Times, American Public Television, Johns Hopkins Medicine, New England Patriots, and the National Gallery of Art. Her films were broadcast on public television, won awards in festivals around the world, and have been supported by (among others) The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Women in Film, Engender Health, and The Liberace Foundation for the Creative and Performing Arts. Currently, Ms. Biasucci is Co-Chief Project Officer for the National Ethics Project and a Strategic Advisor and Multimedia Lead for the Scientific Citizenship Initiative at Harvard University. Her latest book, Behavioral Ethics in Practice: Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions, is co-authored with Robert Prentice. Recently, she wrote a chapter on teaching behavioral ethics for the latest edition of Teaching Ethics – Instructional Models, Methods and Modalities for University Studies. Before joining McCombs School of Business, Ms. Biasucci taught media production at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her M.F.A. in Film & Video Production from The University of Texas at Austin, and her B.A. in philosophy magna cum laude from Bowdoin College.
Andrew teaches theatre history, acting, and directing at Carleton. A professional actor, dramaturg, and director, Andrew has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cleveland Playhouse, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, First Folio Theatre, ZACH Theatre, Austin Shakespeare, American Records Company, and Children’s Theatre of Madison.
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Minette (Meme) Drumwright is a professor in the School of Advertising and Public Relations at the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She is director of the interdisciplinary Communication and Leadership Degree, UT’s only undergraduate leadership degree. Additionally, she has a courtesy appointment in the Business, Government & Society Department and is an Advisory Board member for Ethics Unwrapped at UT’s McCombs School of Business. She is also co-chair of the Bridging Disciplines Program in Ethics and Leadership and a faculty fellow of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. Before joining the UT faculty, she was on the Marketing faculty of the Harvard Business School. Her research and teaching are in the areas of ethics, leadership, corporate social responsibility, and communication for nonprofit organizations. Her research has been published in a variety of journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Journal of Media Ethics. She is a member of UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers and has won numerous teaching awards. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Deni Elliott is an ethicist and has been active in practical ethics since the 1980s. She holds the Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy at the University of South Florida where she teaches practical ethics. Professor Elliott was one of the first Rockefeller Fellows in Professional Ethics at Dartmouth College, and the first full-time director of Dartmouth’s Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. She is also a founding member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) and served many years on its Executive Board. She received a M.A. in Philosophy and D.Ed. in Philosophy of Education from Harvard University.
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Mary C. Gentile is Professor of Practice at University of Virginia Darden School of Business and Senior Advisor at Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. She is the Creator/Director of Giving Voice to Values, and consults on management education and leadership development. Among numerous other awards, in 2015 Gentile was named one of “100 Most Influential in Business Ethics” by Ethisphere and one of the “Top Thought Leaders in Trust: 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners” by Trust Across America-Trust Around the World. As a faculty member at Harvard Business School, she was one of the principal architects of HBS’s Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility curriculum. Dr. Gentile earned her Bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary and her MA and PhD from State University of New York-Buffalo.
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Dr. Lichtenstein teaches classes on the Holocaust and the World Wars in Eastern Europe. In these courses, she introduces students to the broad ideological and political background for the wars, to ordinary people’s wartime experiences, as well as to the legacies of mass violence in European societies. Dr. Lichtenstein’s research focuses on minorities, nationalism, state-building, war, and genocide in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.
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Professor McDonald is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor McDonald teaches courses on international relations theory, international political economy, and international security. His current research focuses on integrating the tools of historical analysis and game theory to rethink systemic theories of international politics.
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Professor Moser specializes in the study of electoral systems, political parties, ethnicity and elections, women’s and minority representation, and Russian politics. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on democratization, elections, and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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Shannon B. O’Brien specializes in American Politics, focusing on the American Presidency and Political Development. Dr. O’Brien’s research generally focuses on the impact of individuals upon choices, institutions, and institutional development.
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Lamar Pierce is an associate professor of organization and strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Pierce’s work revolves around the psychological and economic motivation for value-destroying behavior. In 2011-2012, he was a Harrington Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor in the Business, Government & Society Department at the McCombs School of Business.
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Robert Prentice is the Ed and Molly Smith Centennial Professor for Business Law at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin where he teaches business law and business ethics. He is also Founding Chair of the Department of Business, Government & Society at the McCombs School of Business. Additionally, he is Faculty Director of Ethics Unwrapped. Professor Prentice is an inaugural member of the UT System Board of Regents Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and recipient of numerous teaching awards. He has taught business ethics for more than 30 years, and publishes often in the field of behavioral ethics and business law.
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Professor Stanley Roux is a distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently studying how the environmental stimuli of light and gravity alter patterns of growth and development in plants. His research uses molecular approaches to characterize proteins that are critically involved in the coupling of light and gravity stimuli to growth changes in plants.
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Dr. Seeman’s interests focus on the music of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, specializing in Rom (“Gypsy”) communities. She has done field research in Macedonia and Southeastern Europe (1985-87; 1989) and in Turkey (1995-1999; 2003) on Rom, Turkish, and transnational musical practices. Her recent research interests explore emergent Turkish cultural expressions and ongoing configuration of ethnic and gendered identities in the wake of the European Union accession processes.
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A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Professor Mitch Sudoslky served for many years as the director of Jewish Family Service of Austin. His tenure there capped a distinguished professional career that included thirteen years in rural mental health centers in Colorado and New Mexico and seven years in a Colorado health sciences center, where he taught physicians in a hospital training program. He also served as a clinical professor at his alma mater, the UT Graduate School of Social Work, where he lectured on social justice and crisis intervention.