Center Directors

 Professor Celia B. Fisher, Director 
 Professor Michael Baur, Associate Director
 Professor Christine Firer Hinze, Associate Director
 Dr. Adam Fried, Assistant Director

 

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education is Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Subjects Review Board (HSRB), past member of the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) and Co-Chair of the SACHRP Subcommittee on Research Involving Children, and a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. Dr. Fisher chaired the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Code Task Force and the New York State Licensing Board for Psychology and served on the National Institutes of Mental Health Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children. Dr Fisher is author of Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists, second edition (Sage Publications), co-editor of seven books including Research With High-Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law, The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities and The Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science (Sage Publications), and author of over 100 theoretical and empirical publications in the areas of ethics in medical and social science research and practice and life span development. Her federally funded research programs focus on ethical issues and well-being of vulnerable populations including ethnic minority youth and families (NSF), active drug users (NIDA), drinking prevention programs for varsity college athletes (Department of Education) and college students (NIAAA), and informed consent involving adults with mental retardation (NICHD), and mentoring the responsible conduct of research (NINDS, ORI). A more complete account of Dr. Fisher's education, accomplishments, and related professional information can be found in her vita.

Michael Baur, Ph.D. Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fordham Law School. Dr. Baur's current work focuses primarily on the metaphysical foundations (or presuppositions) of ethical and juridical discourse. He serves as the national secretary of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and of the Hegel Society of American, and is Director of Fordham's Natural Law Colloquium.  A more complete account of Dr. Baur's education, accomplishments, and related professional information can be found in his vita.

Christine Firer Hinze, Ph.D. Christine Firer Hinze is a Professor of Theology. Dr. Hinze is the author of Comprehending Power in Christian Social Ethics (1995) and has published extensively on foundational issues in Christian social ethics, Christian feminist ethics, and Catholic social thought in relation to economy, family and work, and social transformation. Her current book project is a Catholic feminist treatment of just work in the 21st century. Some Recent Publications:  “Gaudium et Spes ‘Forty Years After:’ Straining Toward Solidarity in a Suffering World,” William Madges, ed., Vatican II: Forty Years After (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2006).  “U.S. Catholic Social Thought, Gender, and Economic Livelihood,”  Theological Studies 66, 3 (September 2005): 568-91.   “Quadragesimo Anno,” Modern Catholic Social Teaching, ed. Kenneth Himes, OFM (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), 151-174.  "What is ‘Enough?’ Catholic Social Teaching, Consumption, and an Ethic of Sufficiency,” Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life, William Schweiker & Charles Mathewes, ed., (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), 162-188.  “Response to Michael J. Baxter,”  Proceedings of the Catholic Theology Society of America 2004.  "Whose Marriage? Whose Health? A Christian Feminist Ethical Response,”with Mary Stewart van Leeuwen, Marriage, Health, and the Professions, Don Browning & John Wall, ed., (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), 145-166.  “John A. Ryan, Public Policy, and the Quest for a Dignified Ecology of Work,” Religion and Public Life: The Legacy of John A. Ryan, Robert G. Kennedy, et al,eds.  (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 2001),215-40.  “Dirt and Economic Inequality: A Christian-Ethical Peek Under the Rug,” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (2001): 45-62. "Identity in Christian Feminist Theology," Concilium 2000/II, ed. Maureen Junker Kenney & Dietmar Meith, 306-313.

Adam L. Fried, Ph.D.  Adam Fried is the Assistant Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education, director of the Master's in Ethics and Society, and director of the Center’s Certificate Program in Health Care Ethics. He earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Fordham University in 2007. Dr. Fried has published in area of research ethics, including informed consent and ethical issues related to the use of the internet in practice and research. In addition to his interest in research ethics, he has has also published articles in the area of college drinking and is a member of a team that evaluates treatments for adolescent substance abuse at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Publications: Hogue, A., Henderson, C.E., Dauber, S., Chinchilla, P., Fried, A., & Liddle, H.A. (2009).  Treatment adherence, competence and outcome in individual and family therapy for adolescent behavior problems.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.  Hogue, A., Chinchilla, P., Fried, A., Berzins, P., Liddle, H.A., Inclan, J., Reiner, R.H., Henderson, C., & Becker D. (2009).  Assessing fidelity in individual and family therapy for substance abuse, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.   Glenwick, D.G., Fried, A.L., & Abbey, J. (2008). Field-Based Course in Clinical Geropsychology, Teaching of Psychology. Fisher, C.B., Fried, A.L., & Anushko, A. (2007). Development and Validation of the College Drinking Influences Survey: A Measure of Expectations, Psycho-Social Characteristics and Values Influencing Drinking Choices, Journal of American College Health.  Fried, A.L. & Fisher, C.B. (2007). The Ethics of Informed Consent for Research in Clinical and Abnormal Psychology. To appear in D. McKay (Ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Fisher, C.B., Cea, C., Davidson, P., & Fried, A.L. (2006). Capacity of Persons with Mental Retardation to Consent to Participation in Randomized Clinical Trials. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 1813-1820. Fisher, C.B., Fried, A.L., & Masty, J.M. (2006) Critical Thinking and Ethics in Psychology. In R. J.Sternberg, H. Roediger, III, & D. Halpern (Eds.) Critical Thinking in Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Cecero, J.J. & Fried, A.L. (2005). Parental Rejection and Religiosity: Differential Predictors of Mood and Substance Use. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.  Fried, A.L. (2005). Depression in adolescence. In C. B. Fisher and R.M. Lerner (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science, pp. 332-334. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  Fried, A.L. (2005). Adolescents at risk. In C.B. Fisher and R.M. Lerner (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science, pp. 39-40. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  Fisher, C.B. & Fried, A.L. (2003). Internet-mediated psychological services and the American Psychological Association ethics code. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 40, 103-111.