Dr. David Perry

David Perry became the inaugural director of the Vann Center for Ethics on 1 July 2009. Dr. Perry's responsibilities include teaching ethics courses (e.g., Ethics and Warfare, Business Ethics and Consumer Responsibility, Ethics in Professional Life, and The Moral Status of Humans and Other Animals), organizing extracurricular campus discussions (Ethics Forums) on contemporary ethical issues, and leading interdisciplinary workshops for faculty and staff on integrating ethical concerns across the college.

From 2003 to 2009 he was professor of ethics at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Penn­sylvania, where he taught ethics and warfare, strategic leadership, critical thinking, and other courses for military colonels and their civilian counterparts. He previously taught biomedical ethics, business ethics, and other courses in philosophy and religion at Seattle University and Santa Clara University, and was a management consultant in corporate ethics at the Ethics Resource Center in Washing­ton, DC.

Perry is the author of a 2009 book entitled Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation, and more than 40 articles on a broad range of ethical issues. He earned a B.A. in religion magna cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University, and A.M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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