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Affiliate Faculty
Gary John Adler, Jr.
- Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Department of Sociology
- College of the Liberal Arts
- 2017/18 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 863-5365
Pete Allison
- Associate Professor - Values and Experiential Learning
- Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- College of Health and Human Development
(814) 863-5559
Christopher Beem
- Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy
- Associate Research Professor in the Department of Political Science
Kathryn Sophia Belle (Kathryn T. Gines)
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Founding Director, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
- Director, Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-1652
Robert Bernasconi
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-6398
Karen Bierman
- Evan Pugh University Professor
- Director, Child Study Center
- Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies
- Department of Psychology
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-3879
Forrest Briscoe
- Professor of Management and Organization
- Departments Management and Organization and Sociology
- Smeal College of Business
- Frank & Mary Jean Smeal Research Fellow
- 2018-19 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
Jonathan Brockopp
- Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies
- Department of History
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 863-1338
Kristin Buss
- Director of PACT and Harrisburg Center for Healthy Child Development
- Professor of Psychology
- Department of Psychology
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 863-1715
Michael Bérubé
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature
- Department of English
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 863-8663
Jeffrey M. Catchmark
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- 2016/17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 863-0414
John Christman
- Professor of Philosophy and Political Science
- Director of Penn State Humanities Institute
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-0495
Michelle Darnell
- Associate Clinical Professor of Management and Organization
- Department of Management and Organization
- Smeal College of Business
Richard A. Duschl
- Kenneth B. Waterbury Chaired Professor in Secondary Education
- Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- College of Education
(814) 867-2759
Jeremy Engels
- Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Department of Communication Arts & Sciences
- College of the Liberal Arts
- Former Sherwin Early Career Professor
(814) 863-0760
Jennifer Eury
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
- Department Management and Organization
- Smeal College of Business
(814) 867-5106
Fred Fonseca
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Center for Innovative Online Learning (COIL)
- Affiliate Assistant Professor of Geography, The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
(814) 867-4025
Pearl Gluck
- Associate Professor, Film-Media Studies;
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Department of Film-Video and Media Studies
- Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Donald P. Bellisario Career Advancement Professor
Casey Helgeson
- Assistant Research Professor
- Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
(814) 867-3830
Rosemary Jolly
- Professor, Weiss Chair of the Humanities in Literature and Human Rights
- Departments of Comparative Literature, English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; African Studies and Bioethics Programs
- College of the Liberal Arts
- 2016/17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 865-1188
Klaus Keller
- Professor of Geosciences
- Department of Geosciences
- College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
(814) 865-6718
Tom Litzinger
- Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation and Accreditation
- Director of the Leonhard Center
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
- College of Engineering
(814) 865-4015
Janet Lyon
- Associate Professor of English and Women Studies
- Faculty-in-charge, Disability Studies Minor
- Department of English
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-9681
Efrain Marimon
- Instructor of Education
- Director, Social Justice Fellowship
- Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- College of Education
(814) 863-6445
Jonathan H. Marks
- Professor of Bioethics, Humanities, Law, and Philosophy
- Director of the Bioethics Program
- Affiliate Faculty, Law, Philosophy, Public Policy, and International Affairs
(814) 865-5938
Bryan McDonald
- Associate Professor of History
- Department of History
- College of the Liberal Arts
- Former Sherwin Early Career Professor
(814) 863-8949
Michele Mekel
- Assistant Director, Bioethics Program
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Bioethics
- Affiliate Law Faculty
- Joint Appointment, Penn State College of Medicine Department of Humanities
Eduardo Mendieta
- Affiliate Faculty Member
- Professor of Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-1553
Mary E. Mendoza
- Assistant Professor of History
(814) 863-8946
Sarah Clark Miller
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
- 2015/16 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 865-6969
AnneMarie Mingo
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 867-5954
Dana Mitra
- Professor of Education, Educational Theory & Policy
- Co-director of the Donald J. Willower Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics of UCEA
- Department of Education Policy Studies
- College of Education
(814) 863-7020
Ginger Moore
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Department of Psychology
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-7045
Selena E. Ortiz
- Assistant Professor; Gregory H. Wolf Professor of Health Policy & Administration
- Department of Health Policy & Administration
- College of Health & Human Development
(814) 863-8041
Martin T. Pietrucha
- Professor of Civil Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- College of Engineering
- 2017/18 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 863-7306
Patrick Lee Plaisance
- Don Davis Professor of Ethics
- Department of Journalism
- Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
(814) 863-3800
Tom Richard
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- College of Agricultural Sciences
(814) 863-0291
Michelle Rodino-Colocino
- Associate Professor
- Film/Video, Media Studies, Bellisario College of Communication,
- Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
(814) 863-2370
Carolyn Sachs
- Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology
- Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
- College of Agricultural Sciences
(814) 863-8641
Deborah L. Schussler
- Associate Professor of Education
- Department of Education Policy Studies
- College of Education
(814) 863-1314
Amit Sharma
- Professor of Hospitality Finance
- Department of Hospitality Management
- College of Health and Human Development
- Director, Food Decisions Research Laboratory
- Editor, ICHRIE Penn State Research Reports
- Director of Research, I-CHRIE
- 2016/17 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow
(814) 865-0126
José Soto
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Department of Psychology
- College of the Liberal Arts
- 2018-20 Sherwin Early Career Professorship
Alexandra Staub
- Professor of Architecture
- Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- College of Arts & Architecture
(814) 865-4239
Don Thompson
- Professor Emeritus of Food Science
- Senior Fellow, Rock Ethics Institute
- Department of Food Science
- College of Agricultural Sciences
(814) 867-6650
Nancy Tuana
- DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
- Department of Philosophy
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-1653
Catherine Wanner
- Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies
- Departments of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies
- Barry Director of the Paterno Fellows Program
Ken Weiss
- Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Genetics
- Department of Anthropology
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-0989
Megan S. Wright
- Assistant Professor of Law, Medicine, and Sociology
- Penn State Law
- Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
- Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology and Criminology
(814) 865-8957
Melissa Wright
- Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography
- Department Head of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- College of the Liberal Arts
Cynthia Young
- Associate Professor of African American Studies and English
- Interim Co-Director of the Africana Research Center
- Department Head of African American Studies
- College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 863-5532