Joseph Kupfer
CEAH Director
Joseph Kupfer, University Professor of Philosophy, has been named director
of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, effective July 1,
2008, through June 30, 2011.
As associate director, Prof. Kupfer helped develop the Center's
Imagining Iowa initiative, with special emphasis on promoting public
art and sustaining creative communities. He has been co-director of the
Murray Bacon Center for Ethics in Business and Government and has chaired
the LAS Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Prof. Kupfer has also enjoyed serving on architecture juries as well as
graduate thesis committees in English and Texitle and Clothing. He
regularly provides workshops in ethics for such professions as substance
abuse counselors, nurses, mental health professionals, fundraisers, and
community health workers.
Professor Kupfer teaches medical ethics, family ethics, philosophy of law
and aesthetics. He has written on privacy, architecture, autonomy, lying,
and the parent-child relationship. In addition to recent publications on
the virtues, the aesthetics of nature, and care ethics, his work in
philosophy of film has appeared in a wide range of journals as well as in
his book, "Visions of Virtue in Popular Film."
