The University of Oklahoma
College of Liberal Studies
Feaver MacMinn Seminars
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Spring 2008 Feaver-MacMinn Seminar: The Ethical Challenges of Leadership
February 27 through March 2, 2008
Joanne Ciulla, Ph.D.
Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics
University of Richmond
Host Professor
John Duncan, Ph.D.
College of Liberal Studies
The University of Oklahoma
To Apply:
For more information, contact John Duncan at the College of Liberal Studies, jduncan@ou.edu or 405-325-1061
The 24th Annual Feaver-MacMinn Seminar
The Ethical Challenges of Leadership
Joanne Ciulla, Ph.D.
Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics
University of Richmond
She teaches, writes, and consults on leadership ethics, business ethics, and the philosophy of work. Ciulla has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy. She teaches courses on leadership ethics, critical thinking, conflict resolution, leadership in international contexts, and leadership and art. In 2003, she was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education and in 2007 she received The Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond.
Her books include Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader (2006), co-editor of The Quest for Moral Leaders: Essays in Leadership Ethics (2005); Ethics, the Heart of Leadership(2004); and The Working Life(2000). Ciulla sits on the editorial boards of The Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies, The Business Ethics Quarterly, Leadership, and she is an Associate editor of The Leadership Quarterly. Ciulla edits the New Horizons in Leadership series, for Edward Elgar Publishing.
She is on the executive committees of The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics and The Society for Business Ethics. Ciulla is a member of the board of directors of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. She has moderated, facilitated, and taught seminars at the Aspen Institute, The World Economic Forum, The Brookings Institution, and a number of other business and government organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
John Duncan, Ph.D.
Dr. John Duncan is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies in the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He has worked with CLS as a professor since 1997 and is the recipient of their 2003 “Kenneth E. Crook Distinguished Faculty Award,” for Excellence in Teaching and Meritorious Service to the University and the 2004 “Superior Teaching Award.” John is also appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, OU Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine, where he teaches courses on the neurobiology of addiction, psychopharmacology of non-therapeutic drug use, and medical ethics.
Graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a Ph.D. in philosophy, his main philosophical interests are in phenomenology (the study of the structures of human experience), applied ethics, and media and its influences on belief. John is currently working on a book on the relationship between self-identity, belief, and autonomy. Additionally, John completed several years of post-doctoral research in biological psychology at the OU College of Medicine.
In August of 2007, John retired after 27 years in law enforcement from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. Although he worked as an undercover agent for years, the past 13 years were as an agency administrator, where he was responsible for agency direction and vision and programmatic development, specifically in the medical communities. He is the author of much of Oklahoma drug law.
Additionally, John is a consultant for the U.S. Department of State and has traveled throughout the former Soviet Eastern-Block countries helping develop approaches to address issues of ethics and governmental corruption. He has served on a White House Commission that developed model legislation, is currently a member of the Advisory Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, has served as a member of the Governor’s Committee on Substance Abuse, was the Vice-Chairman of the Oklahoma Drug and Alcohol Policy Board, and is a member of the Oklahoma Epidemiological Workgroup.
Throughout his career, John has generated over 6.5 million dollars of grant support. He enjoys teaching at all levels and particularly “non-traditional” students, usually adults who are going back to college while working a full-time job.
