My research focuses on ethical and policy issues arising from modern biotechnology, both biomedical and agricultural, but I have broad interests in applied ethics, ethical theory, metaethics, and political philosophy.

My recent work has two main areas. The first is the development of a new theoretical approach to the ethics of human-animal relationships, with David Killoren (Grand Valley State University). The second explores animal privacy and the ethics of wildlife digital information platforms, with Martin Kaehrle and Alan Rubel (UW-Madison).

I have served on the UW Health Sciences Institutional Review Board, the UW Hospital Ethics Committee, UW’s Biotechnology Advisory Committee, the Animal Care and Use Committee for UW’s College of Letters and Science, and UW’s Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee.

I am a full professor with tenure at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I have a joint appointment in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics in the School of Medicine and Public Health and in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Letters and Science. I am affiliated with UW-Madison’s Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Neuroscience and Public Policy Program, and Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. I received my Ph.D. in philosophy in 1999 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of Joshua Cohen, Ralph Wedgwood, and Judith Jarvis Thomson (advisor).

The comprehensive version of my CV is available here.