DANIELLE M. WENNER, PhD
Curriculum Vitae, June 2017
Department of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 155C
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
[email protected]
(412)268-8046
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2015Associate Director, Center for Ethics and Policy, 2015Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy and Center
for Ethics and Policy, 2013-2015
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Affiliate Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, 2013Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Cleveland, OH)
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Bioethics, 2012-2013
Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)
Cleveland Fellow in Advanced Bioethics, 2011-2013
EDUCATION
Rice University, Houston TX, 2005-2011
Ph.D., Philosophy, June 2011
“Democracy in the Real World: Empirical Breakdowns in the Justification of Democracy,”
Advised by George Sher, Baruch Brody, and Robert Stein
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1997-2005
M.A., Philosophy, May 2005
B.A., Philosophy, May 2004
RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS
Social & Political Philosophy, Global Justice, Applied Ethics (esp. Bioethics & Clinical
Research Ethics)
Additional Areas of Teaching Competence: Ethics (incl. Metaethics), Logic, Philosophy of Law
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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE WORK
Voting Member, HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) Efficacy Trials Working Group
(2014- )
Voting Member, NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Blood and
Marrow Transplantation Clinical Trials Network Data Safety and Monitoring Board
(2013- )
FELLOWSHIPS & ACADEMIC AWARDS
Brocher Foundation Summer Residency, “Non-Domination and the Limits of Relational
Autonomy” (Brocher Foundation, Geneva, July 2018)
Falk Fellowship in the Humanities (Carnegie Mellon Research Development Grant, The Ethics of
Randomized Controlled Trials in Development Economics, 2016-2017)
Sarofim Teaching Fellow (Rice University, 2010-2011)
Humane Studies Fellow (Institute for Humane Studies, 2010-2011)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellow (Liberal Democracy and the Global
Order, Directors Christopher Wellman and Andrew Altman, 2010)
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Rice University, 2005-2010)
Distinguished Scholar Award (Tulane University, 1997-2000; 2004)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Wenner, D.M. (2017). “The Social Value of Knowledge and the Responsiveness
Requirement for International Research,” Bioethics 31(2): 97-104.
Wenner, D.M. (2016). “Barriers to Effective Deliberation in Clinical Research Oversight,”
HEC Forum 28(3): 245-259. (e-published 2015)
Wenner, D.M. (2016). “Against Permitted Exploitation in Developing World Research
Agreements,” Developing World Bioethics 16(1): 36-44. (e-published 2015)
Wenner, D.M., A.J. London, J. Kimmelman. (2015). “Patient-Funded Trials: Opportunity
or Liability?” Cell Stem Cell 17(2): 135-137.
Wenner, D.M. (2015). “Diversion Effects, Incentive Effects, and the Goals of Research
Ethics Promulgations,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2(2): 438-444.
Wenner, D.M. (2015). “The Social Value of Knowledge and International Clinical
Research,” Developing World Bioethics 15(2): 76-84. (e-published 2013)
Wenner, D.M. (2012). “Discharging the Duty to Conduct International Clinical Research,”
American Journal of Bioethics 12(11): 44-46.
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Wenner, D.M., B.A. Brody, A.F. Jarman, J.M. Kolman, N.P. Wray, C.M. Ashton. (2012).
“Do Surgical Trials Meet the Scientific Standards for Clinical Trials?” Journal of the
American College of Surgeons 215(5): 722-730.
Jarman, A.F., N.P. Wray, D.M. Wenner, C.M. Ashton. (2012). “Trials and Tribulations: The
Professional Development of Surgical Trialists,” American Journal of Surgery 204(3):
339-346.
Kolman, J.F., N.P. Wray, C.M. Ashton, D.M. Wenner, A.F. Jarman, B.A. Brody. (2012).
“Conflicts among Multinational Ethical and Scientific Standards for Clinical Trials of
Therapeutic Interventions,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 40(1): 99-121.
Ashton, C.M., N.P. Wray, A.F. Jarman, J.M. Kolman, D.M. Wenner, B.A. Brody. (2011). “A
Taxonomy of Multinational Ethical and Methodological Standards for Clinical Trials
of Therapeutic Interventions,” Journal of Medical Ethics 37(6): 368-373.
Ashton, C.M., N.P. Wray, A.F. Jarman, J.M. Kolman, D.M. Wenner, B.A. Brody. (2009).
“Ethics and Methods in Surgical Trials,” Journal of Medical Ethics 35(9): 579-583.
CHAPTERS
Wenner, D.M. (2017). “The Need for Non-Ideal Theory: A Case Study in Deliberative
Democracy,” Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, M. Weber and K. Vallier, eds.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 203-231.
BOOK REVIEWS
(2016). Global Bioethics: An Introduction, Henk ten Have, Monash Bioethics Review.
doi:10.1007/s40592-016-0064-0.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Ashton, C.M., N.P. Wray, B.A. Brody, J.M. Kolman, D.M. Wenner, A.F. Jarman, B.A.
Shirkey, A. Anderson. “Compendium of Ethical and Methodological Standards for
Clinical Trials (CEMS),” Online resource for clinical investigators, research staff, and IRB
members (full release pending).
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY
“Don’t Turn it Off”, guest post at Daily Nous, April 13 2017,
http://dailynous.com/2017/04/13/dont-turn-off-guest-post-danielle-wenner/
Early-Career Research Spotlight, Interview for Blog of the APA, March 23 2016,
http://blog.apaonline.org/2016/03/23/early-career-research-spotlight-daniellewenner/
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Panelist, Discussion of “Unmanned”, a staged reading of a play by Robert Myers about two
drone pilots, Carnegie Mellon Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon, March 2016
Contributor, “Philosophers on Drug Prices,” Daily Nous, September 28 2015,
http://dailynous.com/2015/09/28/philosophers-on-drug-prices/
UPCOMING TALKS
“Standards of Treatment and Prevention in International Clinical Research”, Cleveland Clinic
Bioethics Grand Rounds, June 2017
“A Different Ground for the Social Value Requirement,” American Society for Bioethics &
Humanities, Kansas City, October 2017
INVITED PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
“VRC01 Roundtable: Ethics & PrEP in HIV Vaccine Trials,” HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Full-Group Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2015
INVITED TALKS
“Exploitation and Social Value in International Research,” Brocher Summer Academy in
Population-Level Bioethics: Ethical Issues in Randomized Trials in Development Economics and
Health Policy, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, June 2016
“Boycotting Labor Injustice,” Binghamton Conference on Ethical Issues in International Affairs,
Binghamton University, April 2016
“Increasing the Social Value of HIV Prevention Research,” University of Pittsburgh Center for
Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium, December 2015
“What is the Meaning of Freedom?” Young Philosophers Lecture Series, DePauw University,
February 2015
“Ethics in Video Forensics,” Video Forensics in Human Rights Abuse and War Crimes Investigation:
Technology, Law and Ethics, Center for Human Rights Science, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, August 2014
“Autonomy and the Moral Force of Exploitation,”
Bioethics Research Day, Cleveland Clinic, May 2013
Oakland University Philosophy Lecture Series, Detroit, January 2013
“Ethics in Global Health,” Global Health Seminar Series, Lerner College of Medicine,
Cleveland, December 2012
“Professional Responsibility and Misattributed Maternity,” Bioethics In-Depth Case Presentation,
Cleveland Clinic, November 2012
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“Decision-Making in Healthcare: Surrogacy, Advanced Directives, and DNR Orders,”
MetroHealth Bioethics @ Noon Lecture Series, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland,
September 2012
“Counterproductive Morality and Developing World Research,” CWRU Bioethics Works in
Progress Series, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland,
September 2012
“Research Ethics: Understanding the Rationale Behind the Rule” MetroHealth Bioethics @
Noon Lecture Series, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, July 2012
“Characterizing Benefits in International Research” Bioethics Grand Rounds, Louis Stokes VA
Medical Center, Cleveland, July 2012
“The Social Value of Knowledge: Distributing Benefits and Burdens in Developing World
Research,” Bioethics Research Day, Cleveland Clinic, May 2012
“Business Ethics and Medical Ethics,” Junior Achievement Program, John Jay High School,
Cleveland, April 2012
“Justice in Research: Are We Obligated to Develop Drugs for Impoverished Populations?”
OCEI Distance Learning Program, Cleveland Clinic, March 2012
PEER-REVIEWED & REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
“From Clinical Research to Research for Development: The Responsiveness Requirement in
International Development Research,” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New
Orleans, March 2017
“Standards of Care and Prevention in International Clinical Research,” Society for Applied
Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, July 2016
“Boycotting Labor Injustice” (with Derrick F. Gray), Association for Social and Political
Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, June 2016
“Transnational Reproductive Travel: Undue Inducement, Exploitation, and Autonomy in
Surrogacy Contracts,” American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Panel Presentation,
Houston, October 2015
“Autonomy and Non-Domination in International Clinical Research”
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2015
Young Philosophers Lecture Series, DePauw University, February 2015
“Biased Rationality and Bioethics Research Methods: The Normative Value of Attitudinal
Survey Research,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Costa Mesa, February
2015
“Unpacking the Social Value of Research-Generated Knowledge,” International Association of
Bioethics World Congress, Mexico City, June 2014
“Autonomy and Exploitation in International Clinical Research,” International Network on
Feminist Approaches to Bioethics World Congress, Mexico City, June 2014
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“On the Need for a Non-Ideal Democratic Theory,” Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? Bowling
Green Workshop in Ethics and Public Policy, Bowling Green, April 2014
“Inequality and Democracy”
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2014
Crisis in American Democracy, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, April
2012
“Deliberative Pathologies and Ethical Oversight: Maximizing the Effectiveness of IRBs,”
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, February 2014
“The Social Value of Knowledge: Characterizing Benefits in Developing World Research,”
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013
“Counterproductive Morality and Developing World Research,” Association for Political Theory,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, October 2012
“Socially Valuable Knowledge and Justice in International Research,” Rocky Mountain Ethics
Congress (RoME) Poster Presentation, University of Colorado at Boulder, August
2012
“The Value of Knowledge: Toward a New Framework for the Setting of Health Research
Priorities,” Science-Policy Interactions and Social Values, University of Texas at Dallas,
April 2012
“Therapeutic Orphanhood: A Generation Found, A Generation Lost,” American Society for
Bioethics & Humanities Panel Presentation, Minneapolis, October 2011
“The Supererogation Problem”
North Texas Philosophical Association, North Texas University, April 2006
Texas State Philosophy Conference, Texas State University, March 2006
COMMENTARIES
“Maybe ‘Enough’ Isn’t Enough,” Response to Zi Lin, “The Leverage Approach for
Sufficientarianism,” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago,
March 2016
“Private Citizens and Sovereign States,” Response to Jennifer Szende, “Global Justice and
the Problem of Perspective,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), University of
Colorado at Boulder, August 2012
OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Chair, Fabian Schuppert, “On the Moral (Im)Permissibility of Intergenerational Risk
Imposition,” Society for Applied Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, July 2016
Chair, Robert Hughes, “Obeying Economic Law,” Society for Applied Philosophy¸ Queen’s
University, Belfast, July 2016
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Chair, “Teaching and Learning Empirical Bioethics: Resources from the Presidential
Bioethics Commission,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville,
February 2014
Moderator, “Mind and Brain,” Brain Matters 3, Cleveland Clinic, October 2012
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
Organizer, Center for Ethics & Policy Inaugural Workshop in Ethics and Policy:
Exploitation & Coercion (Carnegie Mellon University, Nov. 4-5, 2016)
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate Seminars
PHIL 835, Structures of (In)Justice (CMU, 2017S)
PHIL 830, Autonomy, Freedom, & Non-Domination (CMU, 2015S)
PHIL 830, Democracy & Equality (CMU, 2014S)
BETH 409, Global Justice and Bioethics (CWRU SoM, 2012F)
BETH 405, Clinical Ethics (CWRU SoM, 2012F)
Case-Based Ethics Learning Modules for 3rd Year Medical Students (CWRU SoM, 2011F,
2012S, 2012F)
Advanced Undergraduate
PHIL 449/HIS 449: Ethics, History, & Public Policy Capstone: Gentrification & Affordable
Housing Policy in Pittsburgh (CMU, 2016F)
PHIL 447, Global Justice (CMU, 2013F, 2015F)
PHIL 348, Health, Development, and Human Rights (CMU, 2014F, 2016S)
PHIL 336, Philosophy of Law (CMU, 2016S)
PHIL 334, Social & Political Philosophy (CMU, 2016F)
PHIL 40005, Healthcare Ethics (Kent State University Ashtabula, 2013S)
Introductory-Level Undergraduate
PHIL 100, Problems of Philosophy (Rice, 2008S)
PHIL 101, Contemporary Moral Issues (Rice, 2010S, 2010F)
PHIL 106, Logic (Rice, 2007Su)
PHIL 1301, Introduction to Philosophy (Cy-Fair College, 2007F x2, 2008Su, 2008F)
PHIL 2306, Introduction to Ethics (Cy-Fair College, 2008Su, 2008F; Houston Community
College 2007S x2)
As Teaching Assistant
PHIL 101, Contemporary Moral Issues (Rice, 2008S, 2009F)
PHIL 307, Social & Political Philosophy (Rice, 2008F)
PHIL 333, Consequentialism (Rice, 2007S)
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STUDENTS ADVISED
Aidan Kestigian, M.S. 2015, “Voting in Epistemic Democracies” (committee member)
FORMAL PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Teaching & Learning Workshop (Full-Day
Workshop, January 2015)
Teaching & Learning (Semester-Long Bi-Weekly Seminar, Cleveland Clinic, Fall 2011)
Philosophy Teaching Seminar (Semester-Long Weekly Seminar, Rice University, Fall 2005)
SERVICE
To Department
• Graduate Admissions Committee, CMU Philosophy (2017)
• Committee to Design a Course-Based Master’s Degree Program, Carnegie Mellon (2015)
• Faculty Liaison, Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), Carnegie Mellon Chapter (2013- )
• Philosophy Department representative, Ethics, History & Public Policy Senior Capstone
Project Course, Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2014)
• Clinical Ethics Consultant, Cleveland Clinic (2011-2013)
• Clinical Ethics Consultant, University Hospitals at Case Medical Center (2011-2013)
• Clinical Ethics Consultant, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center & MetroHealth
Medical Center (2011-2013)
• Bioethics Grand Rounds Steering Committee, Cleveland Clinic (2011-2013)
To Institution
• Ethics Committee Task Force on Financial Transparency, Cleveland Clinic (2012-2013)
• Voting Member, University Hospitals at Case Medical Center Institutional Review Board
(2011-2013)
To Profession
• Ad hoc reviewer for: American Journal of Bioethics (3); AJOB Empirical Bioethics (1); Bioethics
(2); Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (1); Journal of Global Ethics (1);
Philosophy of Science (1); Studies in Social and Political Thought (2)
• Program Reviewer, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) International
Conference (2016)
• Judge, 19th Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Championship, Costa Mesa, CA (February 2015)
To Community
• Funding Application Peer Review, Defense Medical Research and Development
Program (DMRDP) Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP) Prolonged Field
Care Research Award (2016)
• Community Advanced Directives Education, Avon OH (2013)
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Cleveland Clinic Junior Achievement Outreach Program (2012)
Cleveland Clinic Office of Civic Education Initiatives (OCEI) Bioethics Distance
Learning Program (2012)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Bioethics & Humanities
Association for Political Theory
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Association for Social and Political Philosophy
International Association of Bioethics
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
Society for Applied Philosophy
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE
French (reading)
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Dr. George Sher, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
Rice University, [email protected] / 713.348.2723
Dr. Baruch Brody, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities & Professor of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy, Rice University, [email protected] / 713.348.4994
Dr. Alex John London, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Ethics & Policy,
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, [email protected]
/ 412.268.4938
Dr. Mark Aulisio, Professor of Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine & Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics,
MetroHealth Medical Center, [email protected] / 216.778.8493
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