Graduate Student, Ethics and Social Theory
About
I am a doctoral candidate in ethics and social theory at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and I'm interested in everything. The thread to my interests is the search for an ethics based upon human nature, in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions, and with a particular interest in the role of technology in human nature.
My undergraduate background is genetics and biological anthropology. I worked primarily with human mitochondrial DNA and viral gene therapy vectors. My MA thesis was on the Vatican's ethical position on human genetic manipulation. My PhD dissertation will be on the anthropological foundations of natural law and naturalistic ethics, dealing particularly with solutions to the is-ought problem. I am also an adjunct professor in the graduate school of engineering at Santa Clara University.
