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Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors possess expertise in fields covering the full range of the foundation's activities and provide guidance on particular projects and larger strategic initiatives.
Robert Martensen North America
Martensen directs the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and is a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician and historian by training, his publications range broadly in the history of medicine and science. Recently, he has published and spoken on translational medicine, on caring for patients near the end of life, and on professionalism. In 2008, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published his book, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-tech Era.
Martensen directs the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and is a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician and historian by training, his publications range broadly in the history of medicine and science. Recently, he has published and spoken on translational medicine, on caring for patients near the end of life, and on professionalism. In 2008, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published his book, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-tech Era. Also in 2008, his chapter on American ‘medical professionalism’ appeared in Green, et al (editors) Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the 21st Century (Oxford). In 2009, he co-edited Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident’s Guide, published by the American College of Surgeons. His analysis of early modern European debates over spirituality, rationality, and the proper organization of the human body appeared as a 2004 book, The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History (Oxford). Robert serves on the advisory boards of the journal Science Translational Medicine and the Encyclopedia of Trauma. He holds degrees from Harvard (B.A.), Dartmouth (M.D.), and the University of California, San Francisco (Ph.D.), where he also did clinical training in emergency medicine.
Michael E. McCullough North America
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory. McCullough earned his bachelor of science degree from The University of Florida in 1990 and was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. His scholarly work focuses on the operation and evolution of human adaptations for social life, and in that vein he has conducted research on religion, forgiveness, gratitude, and self-control.
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory. McCullough earned his bachelor of science degree from The University of Florida in 1990 and was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. His scholarly work focuses on the operation and evolution of human adaptations for social life, and in that vein he has conducted research on religion, forgiveness, gratitude, and self-control. McCullough is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications and has authored or edited six books, the most recent of which is Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct (2008, Jossey-Bass).
Alan Mittleman North America
Professor of modern Jewish thought and director of the Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) and an M.A. from Temple University and a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Brandeis University. Mittleman is the author of five books, most recently A Short History of Jewish Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He is also the editor of four books and has many published articles, reviews, and essays in scholarly journals and edited volumes.
Professor of modern Jewish thought and director of the Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) and an M.A. from Temple University and a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Brandeis University. Mittleman is the author of five books, most recently A Short History of Jewish Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He is also the editor of four books and has many published articles, reviews, and essays in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled Human Nature and Jewish Thought under contract with Princeton University Press. He is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship and a Harry Starr Fellowship in Modern Jewish History from Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies. Mittleman served as visiting professor in the department of religion at Princeton University (2007) and as director of a major research project initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts, “Jews and the American Public Square” (2000-2004). He has also served on the advisory board of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.