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Denys Turner, Co-Director of the IRST, is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Professor Turner is an internationally renowned scholar whose research interests include a wide range of subjects, including contemporary philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, political and social theory, medieval philosophy and theology, and the history of medieval mysticism.

Willis Jenkins, Co-Director of the IRST, is Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School. Professor Jenkins's research interests include environmental ethics, religion and sustainable development, and moral theologies.

James Clement van Pelt, Program Coordinator for the IRST, specializes in spiritual anthropology, the theology of technology, and consciousness studies. His technologist positions have included ACES Senior Technology Advisor for Connecticut public school districts; Director of Advanced Solutions for Dun & Bradstreet; and technology consultant to American Express and other corporations and non-profits. He holds an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School, and was a Research Fellow from 2003 to 2005.

Gabriel J. Michael, Student Administrator for the IRST, is a second year M.A.R. student concentrating in Ethics. Gabriel graduated from the University of Maryland in 2007, where he studied Government and Politics. He is particularly interested in the social and ethical dimensions of information technology.

 

Advisors
 
Harold Attridge, Dean of Yale University Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament
 
Rev. Nihal de Lanerolle, former Co-Director and current Science Advisor to the IRST; Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology at Yale Medical School, and Chaplain of the Episcopal Center at Yale.

Michael McBride, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

Peter Van Ness, Senior Biostatistician, Program on Aging, Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director, Yale Program on Aging; Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health

Margaret Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School

Robert LeVine, Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Law, Policy, and Ethics Core at Yale's Center for Interdisicplinary Research on AIDS, and Co-Chair of Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

Priya Natarajan, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University
 
Carol Pollard, Associate Director, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
 
Gene Outka, Dwight Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Yale University and Yale Divinity School
 
Bonnie Kaplan, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine
 
Rev. Carl Sharon, Chaplain, Luther House
 

Former Staff and Advisors

Wes Avram, Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication and co-founder of IRST

Sarah Scherschlight, Student Administrator

Tamara Shantz, Student Administrator

Christopher Reinish, Student Administrator