Peter Benson is interested in ethical issues related to anthropological research and the relevance of existential philosophy for ethnography’s ethical possibilities and challenges (see a recent article in Anthropology of Consciousness). He is also currently organizing an Advanced Seminar entitled Markets and Moralities for the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The seminar explores the influence of moral, cultural, and religious values on economic behavior, institutions, and systems.

Lewis Wall holds a master's degree in bioethics in addition to his doctoral degrees in anthropology and medicine.  He is interested in bioethics (and cross-cultural bioethics) in both advanced industrialized countries and the impoverished Third World.  He is a member of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Ethics Committee and the chair of the ethics education sub-committee, as well as a Fellow of the Washington University Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values.  He has written numerous articles on ethical issues in professional medical journals.

Glenn Stone has worked in the ethically contested terrain of Genetically Modified Organisms for the last 6 years. His recent work on ethics of biotechnology include A Science of the Gray: Malthus, Marx, and the Ethics of Studying Crop Biotechnology. He is co-organizer of a mini-conference on "Ethics of Food" at Wash U in 2008.