Affiliated Faculty
The Rock Ethics Institute Board of Visitors brings together individuals from across the nation who can provide guidance on how to best position the REI as a national leader in the development and dissemination of interdisciplinary research and teaching on pressing ethical problems.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2017–18 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Values and Experiential Learning, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
Managing Director of The McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Political Science
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
Sherwin-Whitmore Professor of Liberal Arts
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Evan Pugh Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies
Director of the Child Study Center
Professor of Water Resources
Co-hire, Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Penn State Brandywine
2020–21 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
2022–23 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Affiliate Professor of Rock Ethics
Psychology Department Head
Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor in Children, Work, and Families and Professor of Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Bioethics
2016–17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Professor of Philosophy and Political Science
Director of Penn State Humanities Institute
Associate Clinical Professor of Management and Organization
Director of the Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Director of Honor and Integrity
Assistant Professor of Geography
2024–25 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow and Maurice K. Goddard Chair Faculty Fellow
Faculty member in the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE)
Assistant Professor of History, African American Studies, and African Studies
2024–25 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
2023–24 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
2016–17 Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
Barry Director of the Paterno Fellows Program
Associate Teaching Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State Brandywine
2020–21 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
2019–20 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Film Production
Donald P. Bellisario Career Advancement Professor
Assistant Research Professor at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Associate Professor of English, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Associate Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and Anthropology
2024–25 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow and Maurice K. Goddard Chair Faculty Fellow
Director, Dual-title Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society (TREES)
Director, Intercollegiate Minor in Sustainability Leadership (SUSLD)
Weiss Chair of the Humanities in Literature and Human Rights
Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature
2016–17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Director of the Intensive English Communication Program
Associate Teaching Professor of Applied Linguistics
Director, Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Faculty-in-charge, Disability Studies Minor
Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor of Education
Director of the Social Justice Fellowship
Director, Restorative Justice Initiative
Professor of Bioethics, Humanities, Law, and Philosophy
Director, Bioethics Program
Affiliate Faculty of Public Policy and International Affairs
2022–23 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of History
Director of Interdisciplinary Programs
Former Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
Associate Teaching Professor of Bioethics and Humanities
Associate Director, Bioethics Program
Affiliate Law Faculty
Joint Appointment, Penn State College of Medicine Humanities Department
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2015–16 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Psychological, and Social Sciences, Penn State Abington
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
2024–25 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow and Maurice K. Goddard Chair Faculty Fellow
Jeffrey L. and Sharon D. Hyde-McCourtney Career Development Professor
Professor of Civil Engineering
2017–18 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Film/Video and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Professor of Geography
2021–22 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Goddard Chair and Professor, Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management
Director, Americas Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Associate Director, Institute of Energy and the Environment
Professor of Hospitality Finance
Director, Food Decisions Research Laboratory
Director, Research, I-CHRIE
Editor, ICHRIE Penn State Research Reports
2016–17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, African Studies, and History
2023–24 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Psychology
2018–20 Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Director of Center for Humanities and Information
2020–23 Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Dairy and Animal Science
Attending Veterinarian for Agricultural Animals and Wildlife
Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning, College of Engineering
Director of the Leonhard Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
2024–25 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow