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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Editorial Board

Editorial Team

Quill R Kukla, Editor-in-Chief

Quill R Kukla, PhD, is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, as well as a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. They are also currently a Masters student in Urban and Regional Planning at Georgetown. Their main areas of research are ethics (especially sexual ethics, theories of agency and autonomy, bioethics, and science ethics), philosophy of language, social epistemology, philosophy of science (especially geography and medicine), and anti-oppression philosophy.

Aaron Gray, Managing Editor

Aaron Gray is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His research intersects bioethics, social epistemology, and philosophy of disability. His background as an occupational therapist informs his work on the ethics and epistemology of healthcare practices in clinical spaces.

Shahriar Khosravi, Assistant Managing Editor

Shahriar Khosravi is an Iranian writer in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He studied literature, linguistics and philosophy at the University of Tehran, and later completed a master’s degree in philosophy at Texas Tech University before pursuing his PhD at Georgetown. His research focuses on epistemology, practical normativity and realism in normative political philosophy. He also writes on modern Persian poetry and contemporary Iranian affairs.

Editorial Board

Sean Aas, PhD
Department of Philosophy & Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

John Barugaghare, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Makerere University, Uganda

Nancy Berlinger, PhD
The Hastings Center

Adam Cureton, PhD
Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee

Dena S. Davis, JD, PhD, Emerita
Department of Religion Studies, Lehigh University

Megan A. Dean, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University

Kevin C. Elliott, PhD
Lyman Briggs College, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, & Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University

Stephen John, PhD
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Eva Feder Kittay, PhD, Emerita
Department of Philosophy & Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University/SUNY

Maggie Little, BPhil, PhD
Department of Philosophy & Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Alyssa M. Newman, PhD
Department of Sociology & Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Jing-Bao Nie, BMed, MMed, PhD
Bioethics Centre, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD
The Hastings Center; School of Public Health, University of Montreal; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Keisha Ray, PhD
McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Alison N.C. Reiheld, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Program in Disability Studies, & Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Travis N. Rieder, PhD
Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University

Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, MD, PhD
The Hastings Center; Department and Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics & Center for Biomedical Ethics, National Taiwan University

Jada Wiggleton-Little, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University

Eric Winsberg, PhD
British Academy Global Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida