Colleen Murphy is a Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Political Science, as well as Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as co-editor of Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World (Springer, 2015) and Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards (Springer, 2016). Dr. Murphy is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy, and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
Paolo Gardoni is a Professor and Excellence Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Director of the MAE Center which focuses on the creating of a Multi-hazard Approach to Engineering, and the Associate Director of the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-based Community Resilience Planning. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, and is a member of a number of national and international committees and associations that focus on risk and reliability analysis. His research interests include reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; earthquake engineering; performance assessment of deteriorating systems; ethical, social, and legal dimensions of risk; policies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; and engineering ethics.
Robert McKim is Professor of Religion and of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively in philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy, and applied ethics, and he has taught courses at all levels in all of these areas. His publications include these books with Oxford University Press: Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity; On Religious Diversity; and The Morality of Nationalism, which was co-edited with Jeff McMahan. Religious Perspectives on Religious Diversity is forthcoming in 2017. Recent and forthcoming journal articles include "On Comparing Religions in the Anthropocene," "Environment and Ecology in Religions," and "The Environmental Relevance of the Relational Self." His current research includes additional work on religious diversity and on its implications and on the relevance of religion to environmental thought. |
