Ethics

Dr. Christian Dean
Associate Professor, Politics
Chair, Department of Politics and International Studies
415-485-3298
dean@dominican.edu

• Moral & Political philosophy

• Moral/ethical development

• Constitutional Law

Dr. Dean started teaching at Dominican University of California (then Dominican College of San Rafael) as an adjunct instructor in the Fall of 1996, after having spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He joined the full-time faculty in the Fall of 1998, at which time he also assumed the role of Chair of the Department of Politics & International Studies. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. He teaches courses in Political Philosophy and Public Law, and his research concerns the phenomenology of the development of moral character and ethical expertise

Dr. Denise Lucy
Professor, Business
Executive Director, Institute for Leadership Studies
School of Business and Leadership
415-485-3291
dlucy@dominican.edu

• Strategic leadership
• Organizational behavior
• Business ethics
  

Dr. Lucy oversees the Community Leadership Learning Laboratory (CLLL), a collaborative project of the Department of Graduate Business Studies and Dominican's Institute for Leadership Studies. It provides executive MBA in Strategic Leadership (MBA-SL) students with a living laboratory for the study of leadership development, plus serves as a community consulting service to organizations throughout the Bay Area. MBA-SL students participate in the leadership laboratory by serving as on-site assessors and mentors for organizations seeking to assess their culture and leadership effectiveness, and then affect positive change.

• Medical ethics

• Social science and religion

• Moral philosophy

Dr. Stelmach's graduate work in the field of ethics began at Harvard University where he received his master's degree. He completed his doctoral work at the Graduate Theological Union/Berkeley in 1977 in an interdisciplinary program in ethics and social science. A post-doctoral visiting scholar stay at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley contributed to one of his specialties in business ethics. He was the director of the Center for Ethics and Social Policy in Berkeley for five years. He is the chair of the humanities department at Dominican and teaches courses in moral philosophy, medical ethics, and social science and religion. Dr. Stelmach is the co-author of "Doing Ethics in a Diverse World" (Westview Press, 2007).