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Richard Miller is the new director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at IU Bloomington, succeeding David Smith, who has retired. Miller’s appointment was effective July 1.
Miller is a professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. He will continue to teach in religious studies. He joined the IU faculty in 1985 and has held numerous departmental and university responsibilities. In addition to serving as department chair since 2000, he has been a member of the American Studies Program since 1994 and an affiliate faculty with the IU Center for Bioethics since 2002. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism and the Just-War Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1991), Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and many articles and chapters on religious ethics and moral philosophy.
His most recent book, Children, Ethics and Modern Medicine, was published last month by IU Press, the result of a Lilly Endowment-funded research project through the Poynter Center that enabled him to immerse himself in different pediatric medical contexts as a component of his research.
Smith had served as the center’s director since 1982. He is a faculty member of the Department of Religious Studies. During his tenure at the Poynter Center, the center received grants totaling $4.7 million and published 29 monographs.
The Poynter Center was established in 1972 with a gift from the late Nelson Poynter, an IU alumnus who was chairman of the board of the Times Publishing Co., which publishes the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly.
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