Inamori Senior Research Associates

• Tony Jack, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Neurosciences, Neurology, CWRU
• Pauline Shanks Kaurin, military ethics, ethics education, civil/military relations, author On Obedience (2020) 
• Maxwell Mehlman, Professor of Law, CWRU: biomedical enhancements and military bioethics
• Michael Scharf, Professor of Law, CWRU, Co-Dean School of Law: international law, war crimes, and foreign policy
• David Livingstone Smith, Professor of Philosophy, University of New England: interface between evolutionary biology and human nature 
• Lynn Underwood: moral psychology
• Jessica Wolfendale: Professor of Philosophy, CWRU: ethics and moral psychology of political violence, including the ethics of torture, terrorism, and war

  • The Conversation: Why all civilian lives matter equally, according to a military ethicist 

  • The War From Within: Racial Injustice in the US Prison System

Inamori Research Associates

• Justin Ames, Assistant Professor, Business Policy and Strategy, University of Michigan: corporate social responsibility, leadership
• Donald Carrick: military ethics and medical military ethics
• Nikki Coleman: military ethics and moral psychology
  • Moral Courage: When the 'Line in the Sand' Demands a Response
  • Ethical Issues of Military Use of Space 
• Jonathan A. French Flint: strategy, military ethics
• Nolen Gertz, Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy, University of Twente, The Netherlands: ethics
• Laura Graham, Honors Attorney U.S. Department of Justice: international humanitarian law and Yemen's civil war
• Lynette Hammond Gerido: Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics, CWRU: partners with communities in research to inform clinical practice, technological design, and policy
• Maysan Haydar: Assistant Professor, History, CWRU: twentieth century immigration and acculturation patterns by peoples from Muslim-majority countries, military history, and Islamic and Middle Eastern history
• Ben Mauk: Associate Professor, English, CWRU: border politics, migration, statelessness

  • The Long Road from Xinjiang, The New York Times Magazine

  • Inside Xinjiang's Prison State, The New Yorker

Inamori Emerging and Distinguished Visiting Scholars in Military Ethics

Current and Previous Visiting Scholars

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar 

2023- 2025: Émile Torres

• Quantum Computing Initiative - Cleveland Clinic
• Embodied Robotics for Remote Operations - Human Fusions Institute - Office of Naval Research
• CONCERT - Fieldable Solutions for Hemorrhage with bio-Artificial Resuscitation Products (FSHARP) Program -  Bio-inspired Engineering for Advanced Therapies (BEAT) Laboratory
  Defense Advanced Research Program Agency

The Inamori Center Advisory Board provides their time, guidance on our plans and outcomes, support through leveraged relationships, and investments through individual donations and/or organizational donations.

Advisory Board