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CONTRIBUTORS
James S. Freeman is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religious Studies at
St. Francis College. He holds a Master’s Degree from Columbia University, a J.D.
from the University of Michigan Law School, and practiced environmental justice law
at Brooklyn Legal Services before coming to academia.
Jonathan R. Goodman is a researcher at CUNY’s department of biology and the edi-
tor of Cancer Therapy Advisor. His work has appeared in Zygon: The Journal of Reli-
gion and Science, Aeon Magazine, and the Guardian, among other publications.
David C. Lahti is an evolutionary biologist and philosopher at Queens College and
the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He runs a behavioral evolution
laboratory that focuses on variation and change in complex traits, including social
learning and cultural evolution.
Ian S. Maloney is Professor of English at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY. He is
the author of Melville’s Monumental Imagination, director of the St. Francis College
Literary Prize, and board member for the Walt Whitman Initiative.
Kathleen Nolan received a BS in Biology with a minor in Geology from Northeastern
University, and a Masters of Arts and a Ph.D. in Biology from the City College of
New York and the City University of New York respectively. She has taught at Ye-
shiva University and Columbia University, and has had the good fortune to have
taught courses such as General Biology, Ecology, Biological Evolution, Genetics, and
Marine Biology (as well as others) for the past 21 years at St. Francis College. She is a
Professor of Biology and is the current Chair of the Biology and Health Sciences De-
partment.
Clayton Shoppa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Francis College. He is
the translator of Pierre Aubenque’s work on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, published in a
2017 anthology from Edinburgh University Press. He is co-author of works on philo-
sophical methods and environmental philosophy.
Jacob Sparks recently defended his dissertation “Inference and Justification in Eth-
ics,” and will receive his PhD from Bowling Green State University in the spring of
2018. He currently teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at St. Francis
College. Jacob works in metaethics, the ethics of artificial intelligence and on the
commodification debate.
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