FASPE - Fellowships for the Study of Professional Ethics

09/29/2026

Site-based learning is a cornerstone of FASPE’s curriculum. Each year, we bring our Fellows to the House of the Wannsee Conference, where in January 1942, the implementation of the so-called Final Solution was discussed, and where influential professionals, including lawyers and civil servants, acted without consideration of their ethical responsibilities, ignoring their ethical duties in service to unexamined motivations.

The lakeside villa itself — with its surrounding greenery and attractive architecture — can be unsettlingly beautiful. Fellows grapple with the fact that such atrocities could be conceived in beautiful places, by people who did not see themselves as monstrous.

The site’s exhibitions and educators help Fellows understand this history’s causes and consequences. This context creates a lens for examining their own vulnerabilities and professional responsibilities.

08/31/2026

The 2027 FASPE Fellowship application is now open! The Fellowships bring together graduate students and early-career professionals striving to become ethical leaders in business, law, design & technology, medicine, clergy, and journalism.

The Fellowships begin with two weeks of intensive study in Germany and Poland at sites of historic complicity. Leveraging the power of place, Fellows participate in seminars and interdisciplinary discussions about professional behavior today. FASPE Fellows join a lifetime network of nearly 1,100 alumni who continue to engage through workshops, virtual programming, writing, lecturing, symposia, and social and professional networking.

Visit the link below to learn more about the application process.https://www.faspe-ethics.org/how-to-apply/

07/31/2026

The Annual Dinner and Awards for Ethical Leadership honors individuals, corporations, and FASPE alumni who have demonstrated the highest ethical standards in their fields. This year, we’re pleased to celebrate two individuals who embody FASPE's mission and have spent their careers advancing ethical leadership in the professions:

Frederick Marino, Founding Board Member, FASPE — a champion of FASPE’s mission, a trusted advisor, and a model of the ethical leadership we strive to cultivate, his belief in FASPE helped make the impact it has today possible;

Vardit Ravitsky, President & CEO, The Hastings Center for Bioethics — a leading voice in bioethics who has helped shape bioethics policy and practice across multiple countries and professions.

We look forward to announcing this year’s Distinguished Fellow in the coming weeks. Until then, visit our website to learn more about our honorees. Tickets and sponsorships are available now: https://www.faspe-ethics.org/2026-awards-for-ethical-leadership/

07/21/2026

With the addition of our 2026 Medical, Clergy & Religious Leaders, and Journalism Fellows, the FASPE alumni community is now 1,064 members strong.

Over two weeks in Germany and Poland, Fellows studied the roles and behavior of N**i-era professionals as an initial framework for examining ethical responsibility in their own professions today.

While their time abroad has come to a close, their Fellowship is just beginning. In the months ahead, they’ll continue grappling with the ethical questions explored during the program through capstone projects, including scholarly articles, personal essays, poetry, and other forms of reflection. They’ll also become active members of the FASPE alumni community, connecting through regional gatherings, virtual discussions, and future symposia.

07/09/2026

FASPE is a proud partner of Medical Review Auschwitz, an international conference dedicated to educating the world’s medical community about medical ethics and practice in the context of “N**i medicine.” The 7th annual conference will take place October 6–8, 2026, in Kraków.

Several FASPE team members will participate, including David Goldman (Chair), Thorsten Wagner (Principal Scholar), and Jay Malone (Medical Faculty), leading sessions on topics ranging from the role of medical professionals as perpetrators of N**i crimes to moral orientation in medicine against the backdrop of the Kinderfachabteilungen.

Learn more: https://mra.piebm.org/

07/07/2026

In his TED Talk, 2012 Medical Fellow and FASPE Board Member Dhruv Khullar discusses the potential uses for GLP-1s in treating addiction, the unpredictability of medical progress, and invites us to consider moderation as a physiological state rather than a virtue. Watch the full video at the link below.

What if GLP-1s like Ozempic could do more than just tip the scales? Physician Dhruv Khullar traces the winding path of the "moderation molecule" — from a discovery in Gila monster saliva to a potential diabetes medication and addiction treatment — and how they could quiet the relentless noise of...

06/05/2026

FASPE board member Jill Dolan — Annan Professor of English, professor of theater, and former dean of the college — will retire from Princeton University at the end of the 2025–26 academic year, transitioning to emeritus status. A leading scholar of feminist and q***r theater, Jill helped shape the interdisciplinary field of performance studies, authoring foundational texts including "The Feminist Spectator as Critic" and "Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre," and earning recognition including the American Society for Theatre Research's Distinguished Scholar Award.

Her 18-year tenure at Princeton spanned transformative and empathetic leadership as dean of the college, generations of students inspired in the classroom, and an enduring vision of theater as a force for hope and social change. Visit the link below to read more. Congratulations, Jill!

Professor Jill Dolan retires from the faculty of Princeton University at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.

05/21/2026

2026 Business Fellow Raven Nesbitt is a Chicago native based in Atlanta and an MBA candidate at the Howard University School of Business. After earning a B.A. in Psychology from Emory University, she joined Teach For America as a Metro Atlanta Corps Member and taught middle school special education for two years. Raven currently serves as a Leaders for Educational Equity Public Policy Fellow, supporting school board policy development for one of Atlanta’s largest school districts. She is passionate about advancing educational equity through an interdisciplinary approach that connects education, politics, and business.

Learn more about our 2026 Business Fellows here: https://www.faspe-ethics.org/2026-business-fellows/

05/20/2026

The 2026 Business, Design & Technology, and Law Fellowship begins this week in Berlin. Before this year’s Fellows arrive, here’s a look back at the 2025 program. 📸

03/24/2026

We’re thrilled to announce our newest class of FASPE Fellows! Selected from our most competitive applicant pool yet, their arrival marks a milestone: with the addition of the 2026 class, the FASPE alumni community will surpass 1,000 professionals committed to ethical leadership and exerting their influence across all areas of society. In just a few months, they will travel to Germany and Poland for an intensive study of professional ethics through the lens of history and participate in meaningful, interdisciplinary dialogue with their peers.

Over the next week, we’ll highlight one professional discipline each day—beginning tomorrow with Business, followed by Design & Technology and Law, and then Medicine, Clergy & Religious Leaders, and Journalism. In the weeks ahead, we’ll then shift to featuring individual Fellows. In the meantime, get to know our 2026 Fellows through the link below:
https://www.faspe-ethics.org/2026-fellows/