| ROBERT A. EMMONS,
University of California, Davis
RALPH HOOD, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
DAVID HUFFORD, Penn State College of Medicine
SOLOMON H. KATZ, University of Pennsylvania
ROBERT M. NELSON, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
MARTIN NOWAK, Harvard University
KENNETH PARGAMENT, Bowling Green State
University
STEPHEN G. POST, Case Western Reserve University
CHRISTINA M. PUCHALSKI, George Washington
University School of Medicine
JEFFREY SCHLOSS, Westmont College
PAUL ROOT WOLPE, University of Pennsylvania
ROBERT WUTHNOW, Princeton University
ROBERT A. EMMONS, University of California,
Davis
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University
of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. degree in Personality
and Social Ecology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine.
He is the author of nearly 80 original publications in peer reviewed
journals or chapters in edited volumes, including the acclaimed
book The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns: Motivation and Spirituality
in Personality (Guilford Press) and The Psychology of Gratitude
(Oxford University Press). Professor Emmons is Editor-in-Chief of
The Journal of Positive Psychology. His research focuses
on personal goals, spirituality, the psychology of gratitude and
thankfulness, and subjective well-being. He has received research
funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John M.
Templeton Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability
Research and Rehabilitation (U.S. Department of Education).
RALPH HOOD, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Ralph Hood is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga. He has a long-standing interest in the empirical
study of religion. His research has focused upon religious experience,
especially mystical experience. In addition, he continues extensive
fieldwork on the serpent handling holiness sects of Appalachia.
He is a past president of the Psychology of Religion division of
APA and a recipient of the William James award from that division.
He was involved in the creation of the International Journal
for the Psychology of Religion, where he served as Book Review
Editor and also as Co-editor. He is a past Editor of the Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is currently a board
member of the Internationalle Gesellschaft Für Religionpsychologie.
Recent books include two edited volumes published by Religious Education
Press: Handbook of Religious Experience and Measures of Religiosity
(with Peter Hill), and Dimensions of Mystical Experiences by Rodopi.
His most recent works include a third edition of The Psychology
of Religion: An Empirical Approach (with Bernie Spilka and Burce
Hunsberger) and The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism (with
Peter Hill and Paul Wiliamson) both published by Guilford Press,
and Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History
of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition published by Mercer
University Press.
DAVID HUFFORD, Penn State College of Medicine
David Hufford, Ph.D., is University Professor and Chair of Medical
Humanities, with joint appointments in Neural/Behavioral Sciences
and Family Medicine, at the Penn State College of Medicine (Hershey).
At the University of Pennsylvania he is Adjunct Professor of Religious
Studies. Dr. Hufford has taught about religion, spirituality and
health at the College of Medicine since 1974. He won a Templeton
Foundation Faith & Medicine Award in 1995, the first year of
that program to support religion and health courses in medical schools,
and he has taught that course to fourth-year medical students since
that time. At Penn he has taught courses in spiritual belief and
in alternative medicine since 1979. Hufford's publications
have primarily been concerned with describing the grounds for spiritual
belief, showing their reasonableness and questioning common academic
assumptions about religion and spirituality. At the National Institutes
of Health Hufford has served on scientific review panels for research
involving spirituality and healing. His book, The Terror That Comes
in the Night, which considers beliefs about spiritual evil that
are found all over the world within the context of scientific research
on sleep, was recently translated into Japanese.
SOLOMON H. KATZ, University of Pennsylvania
Solomon H. Katz is Director of the Krogman Center for Research in
Child Growth and Development and Professor of Physical Anthropology
at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in science and religion
spans over 30 years, including leadership in the Institute for Religion
in an Age of Science (IRAS), where he served as President, 1977
to 1979 and 1981 to 1984. He has served as Co-Chair and Associate
Editor of the Zygon Publication Board and Journal since 1979. Dr.
Katz was President of the Center for the Advanced Study of Religion
and Science from 1989-2002, President of the Metanexus Institute
on Religion and Science from 2001-2004, and served on the advisory
board of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the AAAS.
Dr. Katz has edited numerous books and series on the anthropology
of food and nutrition and most recently served as Editor-in-Chief
of the award winning, international 3-volume Encyclopedia of Food
and Culture, published by Scribners in 2003.
ROBERT M. NELSON, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Robert M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor
of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
After receiving his MD degree from Yale University in 1980, Dr.
Nelson trained in pediatrics (Massachusetts General Hospital), neonatology
and pediatric critical care (University of California, San Francisco).
He has received formal training in theology, religious and medical
ethics, receiving a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity
School in 1980 and a Ph.D. in The Study of Religion from Harvard
University in 1993. Dr. Nelson has lectured and published widely
on ethical and regulatory issues in pediatric research and clinical
care. Dr. Nelson is a member of the Pediatric Advisory Committee
(PAC) of the Food and Drug Administration, and Chair of the PAC
Pediatric Ethics Subcommittee. He also serves as a member of the
Subcommittee on Research Involving Children of the Secretary's
Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (DHHS). Dr. Nelson
has been a member of the Committee on Clinical Research Involving
Children of the Institute of Medicine (through March 2004), and
former Chair of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy
of Pediatrics (through 2001). Currently he is Director of the Center
for Research Integrity, established at CHOP to further the responsible
conduct of pediatric research.
MARTIN NOWAK, Harvard University
Martin Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University
of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. His diploma thesis
was with Peter Schuster on quasi-species theory and his Ph.D. thesis
with Karl Sigmund on evolution of cooperation. In 1989, he went
to the University of Oxford as 'Erwin Schroedinger' scholar to work
with Robert May. In 1992, Nowak became a Wellcome Trust Senior Research
Fellow, in 1995 he became Head of Mathematical Biology and in 1997
Professor of Mathematical Biology. In 1998 he moved from Oxford
to Princeton to establish the first program in Theoretical Biology
at the Institute for Advanced Study. In July 2003, Nowak moved to
Harvard University as Professor of Mathematics and Biology. He is
Director of the newly established Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
Nowak is interested in all aspects of mathematical biology. In particular,
he works on the dynamics of infectious diseases, cancer genetics,
the evolution of cooperation and human language. He has published
more than 200 papers and is on the editorial board of various journals.
His first book, Virus Dynamics (together with Robert May), was published
by Oxford University Press in 2000. Nowak is a corresponding member
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has won the Weldon Memorial
Prize, the Albert Wander Prize, the Akira Okubo Prize, the David
Starr Jordan Prize and the Henry Dale Prize.
KENNETH PARGAMENT, Bowling Green State University
Kenneth Pargament is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Bowling
Green State University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from the University of Maryland in 1977. Dr. Pargament has been
a leading figure in the effort to bring a more balanced view of
religious life to the attention of social scientists and health
professionals. A prolific researcher, Dr. Pargament has published
over 100 articles on the meanings of religion and spirituality,
the vital role of religion in coping with stress and trauma, perceptions
of sacredness in life, and psychospiritual treatment. He is author
of The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice
and co-editor of Forgiveness: Theory, Research, and Practice. His
awards include the William James Award for excellence in research
in the psychology of religion from Division 36 of APA, the Virginia
Staudt Sexton Mentoring Award from APA for guiding and encouraging
others in the field, the Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education
Award at Bowling Green State University, and two exemplary paper
awards from the John Templeton Foundation. He has consulted with
NIH, several foundations, and the World Health Organization.
STEPHEN G. POST, Case Western Reserve University
Stephen G. Post is Professor, Department of Bioethics, Case School
of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and was a Senior Research
Scholar in the Becket Institute at St. Hugh's College, Oxford
University. Post is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics,
3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, 2004). He is President of the
Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which was founded in 2001
(with a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation) to facilitate
scientific research, writing, conferences, and course teaching on
unselfish love at the interface of science and spirituality. Post
received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity
School (1983), where he was an elected university fellow, a member
of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a preceptor
in the Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Post has since 1990 focused
attention on the experience of persons with diseases such as Alzheimer's
and their caregivers, with an emphasis on the centrality of unselfish
love in coping with cognitive impairment. Dr. Post is an elected
member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel of Alzheimer's
Disease International, and the recipient of a "distinguished
service" award from the Association's National Board
(1998). His book entitled The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease:
Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2000, 2nd edition) is widely influential.
Dr. Post is co-editor of Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science,
Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2002),
and author of Unlimited Love--Altruism, Compassion, Service
(Templeton Press, 2002). His most recent edited book is entitled
The Science of Altruism and Health: It's Good to be Good (Oxford
University Press, 2005, in preparation).
CHRISTINA M. PUCHALSKI, George Washington University School of Medicine
Dr. Christina M. Puchalski is Associate Professor of Medicine in
Healthcare Sciences at the George Washington University School of
Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Management and Leadership
at the University's School of Public Health in Washington, DC. She
is also founder and director of the Institute for Spirituality and
Health at George Washington University (GWISH). She has developed
numerous educational programs for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate
medical education in spirituality and medicine. Her research interests
and expertise include the role of spirituality in healthcare and
end of life, the role of clergy in health and in end-of-life care,
and evaluation of education programs in spirituality and medicine.
Dr. Puchalski is co-chair of a national education conference co-sponsored
by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), co-chair
of Harvard University's annual Spirituality and Medicine conference,
and co-convener of the spirituality task force for the Last Acts
Campaign. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN,
ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News and in major newspapers
across the country. She is the recipient of the AAMC and Pfizer's
1999 Award for the Medical Humanities Initiative. Dr. Puchalski's
work in the field of spirituality and medicine encompasses the clinical,
the academic, and the pastoral application of her research and insights.
JEFFREY SCHLOSS, Westmont College
Jeffrey Schloss, Professor of Biology at Westmont College in Santa
Barbara, received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Michigan,
Wheaton College, Jaguar Creek Tropical Research Center, and has
served as Director of Biological Programs, the Christian Environmental
Association, and Evolutionary Research Consultant, Institute for
Research on Unlimited love. Professor Schloss has been awarded a
Danforth Fellow and a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in Science Communication
and has served on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous
journals and organizations relating science and religion, including
Zygon, Theology and Science, Science & Christian Belief, Science
& Theology News, and Science & Spirit. His twofold interests
are in the ecophysiology of poikilohydric regulation and the implications
of evolutionary theory for our understanding of ethics and human
purpose. Professor Schloss's recent projects include several collaborative
volumes: Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and
Religion in Dialogue (Oxford, 2002); Research on Altruism and Love
(Templeton, 2003), and Evolution and Ethics: Morality in Biological
and Religious Perspective (Eerdmans, 2004).
PAUL ROOT WOLPE, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., holds appointments in the Departments of
Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a Senior Fellow of Penn's Center for Bioethics, is the
Director of the Program in Psychiatry and Ethics at the School of
Medicine, and is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute
for Health Economics. Dr. Wolpe serves as the first Chief of Bioethics
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and
is also the first National Bioethics Advisor to the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America. Dr. Wolpe is the author of numerous articles
and book chapters in sociology, medicine, and bioethics, and has
contributed to a variety of encyclopedias on bioethical issues.
His research examines the role of ideology, religion, and culture
in medical thought, especially in relation to emerging biotechnologies,
including neurotechnology, reproductive and genetic technology,
and nanotechnology. He is Associate Editor of the American Journal
of Bioethics, and is a member of the National Board of the American
Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the author of the textbook,
Sexuality and Gender in Society, and the end-of-life guide, In the
Winter of Life, and is currently writing a book on emerging technologies
and their impact on the human body.
ROBERT WUTHNOW, Princeton University
Robert Wuthnow is Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology
and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton
University. He received his B.S. from the University of Kansas and
his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. A leading
sociologist of religion, Wuthnow has written extensively about American
religion, culture, and civil society. He is the author of more than
twenty books, including After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since
the 1950s (University of California Press, 1998), Saving America?
Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (Princeton
University Press, 2004), and America and the Challenges of Religious
Diversity (Princeton University Press, 2005). He has served as President
of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, as a member
of the Executive Council of the American Sociological Association,
and as President of the Eastern Sociological Society, and has received
numerous awards, including the Martin Marty Award for Public Understanding
of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. He has also served
as an evaluator for the National Science Foundation, National Endowment
for the Humanities, Grawemeyer Religion Award, and Charlotte Newcombe
Fellowships, and has chaired the Editorial Board of Princeton University
Press.
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