Joshua Earle

Joshua Earle has a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Virginia Tech and is a lecturer in STS at UVA. His work focuses on the history of eugenics, its connection to modern genetic medicine, and to future imaginaries of human and more-than-human worlds. His work is situated in Feminist Philosophy of Technology, Disability Studies, Black Feminist Philosophy, History of Science/Medicine, Bioethics, and Medical Humanities.

Gil Siegal

Dr. Gil Siegal’s scholarly interests cover the expanding spectrum of modern health law and bioethics including medical malpractice, genetics and biotechnology, public health law, organ transplantation and telemedicine.

Siegal is director of the Center for Health Law and Bioethics at Kiryat Ono College in Israel and a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute for Health Policy. He is chief editor of The Journal of Health Law & Bioethics.

Siegal serves on several national committees in Israel, including the Israeli National Committee for Medical Research, the Israeli National Committee on Human Genetic Research and the Israeli National Committee on Non-Medical Sex Selection. He is chairperson of the Israeli National Forum for Legal and Ethical Aspects of Genetics.

During 2003-04, Siegal was a fellow in health policy and ethics at UVA School of Law, where he also taught Comparative Health Law. During 2004-05, he served as a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard University Medical School, and a research fellow and consultant at Harvard School of Public Health, working on demonstration projects of administrative compensation for medical injuries (with Michelle Mello and David Studdert). He also serves as a professor at UVA Law.

Douglas Taylor

Douglas Taylor studies population genetics and molecular evolution. He is studying an invasive species as models for the evolution of geographic range expansion. He also studies how evolution is influenced by the fact that populations are distributed in space (population structure). Several projects focus on how selection at one level or organization subsumes, or is subsumed by, selection at higher levels of organization… so-called "levels of selection". This has led into the studies of genetic conflict such as epidemics of selfish genes within natural populations and mitochondrial diseases that result from the accumulation of parasitic organelles within cells. His work involves a wide variety of methods: phylogenetics & molecular population genetics, field experiments, greenhouse experiments & crossing studies, and theory.

Benjamin Laugelli

Ben Laugelli has a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies. While in graduate school, he began teaching in the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering and Society, where he is currently a professor. His research interests are technology, ethics, and values; social construction of technology; sustainable engineering; and technology and science fiction. He teaches courses that examine the social and ethical aspects of engineering design and practice.

Lois Shepherd

Lois Shepherd is an expert in the fields of health law and bioethics. Her primary appointment is at the UVA medical school’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities where she directs the center’s programs in medicine and law, and is a co-director of Studies in Reproductive Ethics and Justice. After receiving her law degree from Yale University, where she served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, Shepherd practiced corporate law for six years. Now, she teaches courses in health care law and ethics at both UVA Law and UVA Medical school.