Program Co-Directors
Candice Delmas, the co-PI and Administrative Director, is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University jointly appointed in the Departments of Philosophy and Religion and Political Science. She works in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. She is the author of A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, the co-PI and Academic Director, is an Assistant Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Meissner is Payómkawichum and Kúupangaxwichem (Luiseño and Cupeño), and a first generation descendant of the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians. Her research is in American Indian and Indigenous philosophy, feminist and non-western epistemology, and philosophy of language.
snmeiss@umd.edu
Program Replacement Co-Directors
Getty Lustila, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, will serve as the Replacement Co-Director: Administrative Team. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University. His research is dedicated to expanding the philosophical canon by recovering the voices of women and other underrepresented figures writing in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Joseph Len Miller, an enrolled member of Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, will serve as the Replacement Co-Director: Expert Scholar Team. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at West Chester University whose research is centered around questions concerning the composition and acquisition of moral knowledge within Native American frameworks. He has extensive experience integrating Native American philosophy into a range of courses.
Administrative Team
Operations and Program Manager, Ethics Institute at Northeastern University
Administrative Assistant, Department of Philosophy and Religion and Ethics Institute at Northeastern University
NEWLAMP Co-Organizers (2022-)
Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Wellesley College
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
Professor of Philosophy and faculty of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University