| 2022– | Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities, School of Public and Population Health |
| Faculty Member, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities |
| 2020–22 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of the History of Medicine, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 2020 | Ph.D., History of Science |
| Secondary Graduate Field in Science, Technology, and Society | |
| Dissertation: “Medical Regret without Remorse: A Moral History of Harm, Responsibility, and Emotion in American Surgery since 1945” | |
| Committee: David S. Jones (chair), Allan M. Brandt, Sheila S. Jasanoff |
| 2007 | A.B., with Departmental Honors in Science, Technology, and Society |
| 2018–19 | Graduate Fellow in Ethics, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University |
| 2017–18 | Ethics Pedagogy Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University |
| 2015–17 | Research Fellow in Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard Kennedy School |
| 2009–13 | New Media Director |
| 2007–09 | Research Assistant |
| 2023 | J. Moses, T. E. Schall, and L. Campo-Engelstein, “Unjust Discrimination Between Cisgender and Transgender Gender-Affirming Care,” Annals of Internal Medicine July 4. https://doi.org/10.7326/M23-0704 |
| 2023 | T. E. Schall and J. Moses, “Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People,” Hastings Center Report, 53, no. 3 (2023): 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1486 |
| 2023 | J. Moses, A. Arnold-Forster, and S. Schotland, “Introduction: Healthcare Practitioners’ Emotions and the Politics of Well-Being in Twentieth Century Anglo-America,” introduction to special issue of Journal of The History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, ed. J. Moses, A. Arnold Forster, and S. Schotland. Advance access publication, May 5, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad023 |
| 2022 | A. Arnold-Forster, J. Moses, and S. Schotland, “Reading The National Plan For Health Workforce Well-Being Through The Lens Of History,” Health Affairs Forefront, December 19, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20221215.89479. |
| 2022 | A. Arnold-Forster, J. Moses, and S. Schotland, “Obstacles to Physicians’ Emotional Health — Lessons from History,” New England Journal of Medicine 386, no. 1 (2022): 4-7. |
| 2018 | K. Saha, J. B. Hurlbut, S. Jasanoff, A. Ahmed, A. Appiah, F. Baylis, G. Bennett, G. Church, G. Cohen, G. Daley, K. Finneran, W. Hurlbut, R. Jaenisch, L. Lwoff, J. P. Kimes, P. Mills, J. Moses, B. S. Park, E. Parens, R. Salzman, A. Saxena, T. Simoncelli, O. C. Snead, K. S. Rajan, R. D. Truog, P. Williams, and C. Woopen, “Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design,” Trends in Biotechnology 36, no. 8 (2018): 741-743. |
| 2015 | J. Moses, N. Berlinger, M. C. Dunn, M. K. Gusmano, and J. J. Chin, “Bioethics Casebook 2.0: Using Web-Based Design and Tools to Promote Ethical Reflection and Practice in Health Care,” Hastings Center Report 45, no. 6 (2015). |
| 2014 | J. Moses, “Bioethics Education: IV. Public Education” entry in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th Edition, ed. B. Jennings, L. Eckenwiler, G. Kaebnick, B. Koenig, S. Krimsky, S. R. Latham, M. R. Mercurio. (New York: Macmillan, 2014). |
| 2012 | M. S. Race, J. Moses, C. McKay, and K. J. Venkateswaran, “Synthetic Biology in Space: Considering the Broad Societal and Ethical Implications,” International Journal of Astrobiology 11 (2012): 133–139. |
| 2011 | J. Moses, “The 1.5 Cultures Problem,” Hastings Center Report 41, no. 1 (2011): inside cover. |
| 2009 | E. Parens, J. Johnston, and J. Moses, “Do We Need ‘Synthetic Bioethics’?” Science 321 (2008): 1449 and letter in Science 323 (2009): 339. |
| 2009 | E. Parens, J. Johnston, and J. Moses, Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009): 1–32. |
| 2009 | J. Moses, “Are Parents Driven to Design Their Babies?” BioethicsForum.org, February 11, 2009. |
| 2009 | J. Moses, “A Liberating Value to Biometric Technologies? A Review of Mordini and Massari’s ‘Body, Biometrics, and Identity,’” Dialogue 2, no. 5 (2009): 1–3. |
| 2009 | J. Moses, “From Pallets to People: RFID and Technology Design,” Dialogue 2, no. 1 (2009): 3–6. |
| 2009 | K. Maschke and J. Moses, “Background on Privacy as Contextual Integrity,” working paper for EU-funded Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection Ethics (HIDE) project policy forum, Czech Republic, June 5–6, 2009. |
| 2008 | J. Moses, “A Fair Trade? Canadian Ethics Commission Helps Recast the ‘Privacy vs. Security’ Dilemma,” Dialogue 1, no. 2 (2008): 3–6. |
| 2008 | N. Berlinger and J. Moses, “Pandemic Flu Planning in the Community: What Can Clinical Ethicists Bring to the Public Health Table?” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17, no. 4 (2008): 268–70. |
| 2007 | N. Berlinger and J. Moses, The Five People You Meet in a Pandemic and What They Need from You Today (Garrison, NY: The Hastings Center, 2007). (Also included in University of Minnesota project “Pandemic Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools.”) |
| 2022 | Book Review: “J. Moses on Hodges and Paech and Bennett, ‘Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare: Leading with Care in a Technological Age,’” H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews, December, 2022. Available at https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57875. |
| 2023 | “From ‘Willing Concurrence’ to ‘Shared Decision-Making’: The Emergence of a Dominant Model for U.S. Bioethical Authority,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (Honolulu, HI), November 11, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Behavioral Science and the Making of the Right-Reasoning Public Health Citizenry,” with Karen Huang, Society for the Social Studies of Science (Honolulu, HI), November 11, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Exceptional Standards in Transgender Healthcare and the Ethics of Evidence,” Panel: Exceptions and Exceptionalism in Transgender and Intersex Medicine, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, MD; October 13, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Whose Regret? Shifting Responsibility in the History of Intersex Surgery,” Panel: Conserving Personhood: Meaning, Experience, and Regret in Intersex-affirming Healthcare, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, MD; October 12, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Applied Medical History,” panel with Lisa Haushofer, Lukas Engelmann, Beatrix Hoffman, Kirsten Moor-Sheeley, and Kylie Smith, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, Oslo, Norway; August 31). |
| 2023 | “Pausing for Power: Moratoriums and the Promises of Responsible Science, Technology, and Medicine,” with Gili Vidan (Cornell University; Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice, Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, July 17). |
| 2023 | “Authenticity and Authentication at U.S. Gender Clinics, 1965–1979” (University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities Seminar Series; March 23). |
| 2023 | “A Measure of Regret: Historicizing Decisional Regret in the Ethics of Surgical Decision-making,” Health Humanities Consortium Conference (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland OH; March 18). |
| 2023 | “The Tuskegee Experiment: Beyond a Case Study,” Bioethics Bowl, John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX; January 11). |
| 2022 | “Toward A History of Shared Decision-Making in Medicine and Bioethics,” John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX; November 11). |
| 2022 | “‘The Moveable Middle’: Misinformation and Moral Reasoning in Public Health Behavioral Modeling,” with Karen Huang (Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting, Cambridge MA; July 29). |
| 2022 | “The History of Emotions and Emotions in the History of Medicine and Public Health,” Samuel G. Dunn Lectureship in the Medical Humanities (University of Texas Medical Branch; June 29). |
| 2022 | “Access and Authority in Science Research,” with Josh Lupkin (Technológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México, Departamento de Ciencias, virtual; May 13). |
| 2022 | “Cis and Trans Gender Affirming Care,” with Theo Schall, Berman Institute Research Retreat (Johns Hopkins University; April 27). |
| 2022 | “Historicizing Practitioners’ Emotions in the History of Medicine,” co-organizer with A. Arnold-Forster, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, (Saratoga Springs, New York; April 22). |
| 2021 | “Selective Affinities: Reflections on Teaching STS in a Medical School,” Speaker on STS Pedagogy Panel, Science and Democracy Network, 2021 Annual Meeting, (virtual; June 25). |
| 2020 | “Affect in Retrospect: Genital Surgeries and Tracking Ethical Reform in Late-20th Century Medical Practice,” American Association for the History of Medicine Ann Arbor 2.0 Conference Panel 7 (virtual; December 9). |
| 2020 | “Quantifying Patients’ Affect: Decision Regret Scales and the Biomedicalization of Medical Harm,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (virtual; August 18). |
| 2020 | “Affect and Sensory Relation in the History of Medicine,” panel accepted at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (Ann Arbor, MI; May). |
| 2020 | “Remaking the Regretful Agent: Cancer Surgery, Medical Harm, and the Role of Affect in Therapeutic Reversals,” STS Circle (Cambridge, MA; February 24). |
| 2019 | “Regret in Anticipation: Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening and the Coproduction of Future Bodies and Future Harms,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (New Orleans, LA; September 7). |
| 2018 | “Radical Regrets: Cancer Surgery, Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing, and the Role of Affect in Therapeutic Reversals,” presentation at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA; May 11). |
| 2015 | “Remorse Without Regret: Experimentalism, Consent, Apology, and the Affective Economies of Biomedicine,” presentation at Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry & Medicine, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Boston, MA; October 15). |
| 2014 | “Learning to Make Difficult Ethical Decisions: A Web-Based Case Learning Approach,” presentation at 11th Annual Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, with Jacqueline Chin, and Michael Dunn (Singapore; January). |
| 2012 | “LGBTQ Bioethics Panel,” Health and Human Rights Week at the University at Albany (Albany, NY; December 7). |
| 2012 | “Not All Arguments Are Equal: The FDA’s MSM Blood Deferral Policy, Gay Etiology, and Access to Sex Reassignment Surgery,” presentation for “What is Progress for Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered Health in Bioethics?” panel, American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (Washington, D.C.; October 20). |
| 2012 | “Science on Screen: Dissecting Prime-Time Bioethics,” STS Lecture (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; April 22) |
| 2010 | “Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology,” NASA Synthetic Biology Workshop (Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; October 30–31). |
| 2010 | “Does Google Have Biopolitics?” The Tarrytown Meeting (Center for Genetics and Society, Tarrytown, NY; July 28). |
| 2009 | Panelist and Discussion Leader, National Conference on Ethics in America (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY; October 15–17). |
| 2008 | “Synthesizing New Life: Challenges for Bioethics in Synthetic Biology,” American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (Cleveland, OH; October 24). |
| 2008 | “Synthesizing New Science: Public Engagement and the Regulatory Debate in Synthetic Biology,” National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (Union College, Schenectady, NY; April 25). |
| 2008 | “Making Ethical Decisions During a Pandemic: Three Duties and Five People You Need to Know,” with Nancy Berlinger, Public Health Preparedness Summit (Atlanta, GA; February 22, 2008); Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (San Antonio, TX; February 23). |
| 2022 | “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 1). |
| 2021 | “Trans/Medicine,” with Ketil Slagstad, Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; November 12). |
| 2021 | “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 16). |
| 2016 | “What Should Democracies Know?,” with Gili Vidan, Harvard Program on Science, Technology & Society (Cambridge, MA; December 8). |
| 2019 | Comment on Louis Gerdelan, “Charting the History of Misfortune: Early Disaster Collecting in the Seventeenth-Century,” Safra Graduate Research Seminar (Harvard University; April 23). |
| 2019 | Comment on Mark Budolfson, “Methods for Quantifying Animal Wellbeing and Estimating Optimal Tradeoffs against Human Wellbeing,” Safra Faculty Seminar (Harvard University; March 12). |
| 2018 | Comment on Abbie Modaff, “Black Truth and Black Beauty: Alain Locke on the Force of Authentic Expression” 20th Century US History Workshop (Harvard University; October 24). |
| 2018 | Comment on Rachel Achs, “Justified Guilt Tripping,” Safra Graduate Research Seminar (Harvard University; October 23). |
| 2017 | Comment on Eli Nelson, “Repossessing the Wilderness: New Deal Frontier Sciences in the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation,” Science, Religion, and Culture Colloquium (Harvard University; November 30). |
| 2017 | Comment on workshop, “Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology,” Program on Science, Technology, and Society (Harvard Kennedy School; April 28). |
| 2017 | Comment on Burcu Mutlu, “The Politics of Secrecy in ‘Tube-Baby Tourism’ from Turkey to Northern Cyprus,” Science, Religion, and Culture Colloquium (Harvard University; February 23). |
| 2015 | Comment on “Politics and Ethics of Translational Medicine” panel, Science and Democracy Network 14th Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA; June 26). |
| 2023 | J. Moses and G. Vidan, “An AI Moratorium Probably Is Not the Answer,” Washington Post (May 8), https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/05/08/artificial-intelligence-moratorium/. |
| 2022 | “When Doctors Cite ‘Regret’ to Deny Care, Who Is Really Protected?,” WIRED (March 24). |
| 2021 | “Progress, What’s It Good For?,” interview with Kieran Fitzpatrick, Body Politics: The Podcast Where History, Medicine, and Society Collide (April 23). |
| Fall 2023 | Histories of Health and Bioethics; graduate-level |
| Fall 2023 | Science & Technology Studies; graduate-level |
| Spring 2023 | Introduction to Medical Humanities; MD-level |
| Spring 2023 | Histories of Health and Bioethics; graduate-level |
| 2022 | History of Medicine Research Practicum, with Prof. Graham Mooney; MA-level Research Practicum |
| 2022 | Medical Humanities and Social Medicine in Practice, with Profs. Jeremy Greene, Graham Mooney, Carolyn Sufrin, and Gail Geller; MD-level Elective |
| 2021 | Introduction to the History of Medicine; MA-level Thematic Survey |
| 2021 | Introduction to Social Medicine, with Profs. Jeremy Greene, Graham Mooney, and Carolyn Sufrin; MD-level Selective |
| 2021 | The History of Medicine in Place, with Prof. Graham Mooney; MA-level Research Seminar |
| 2021 | Medical Humanities and Social Medicine in Practice, with Profs. Joseph Carrese, Jeremy Greene, Graham Mooney, Carolyn Sufrin, and Gail Geller; MD-level Elective |
| 2020 | Healing Spaces: Historical Geographies of Medical Practice, with Prof. Graham Mooney; MA-level Research Methods Course |
| 2020 | Introduction to Social Medicine, with Profs. Jeremy Greene, Graham Mooney, Carolyn Sufrin, Alexandre White; MD-level Selective |
| 2019 | Medical Ethics and History (Prof. David S. Jones) |
| 2017 | Sophomore Tutorial in History of Science (Prof. Anne Harrington) |
| 2016 | Medical Ethics and History (Prof. David S. Jones) |
| 2018 | The History and Culture of Stigma (Prof. Allan Brandt) |
| 2017 | The History and Culture of Stigma (Prof. Allan Brandt) |
| 2016 | Sophomore Tutorial in History of Science (Prof. Anne Harrington) |
| 2015 | Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science (Prof. Alex Csiszar) |
| 2019–20 | Safa Salem, “Health as a Luxury: Historicizing the Effects of the Federal Poverty Level on Healthcare in the United States” |
| 2018–19 | Maetal Haas-Kogan, “Voluntary Control and Coercive Choices: Sterilization Uses and Abuses in the US, 1962–1982” |
| 2017–18 | Sarah Murphy, “The Law and Birth Control Advocacy in Massachusetts, 1916–1972” |
| 2016–17 | Hamidah Mahmud, “Human Representation and Misrepresentation at the Chicago World Fair of 1893” |
Faculty Research Mentor Award (for scholarly products achieved with students), Center of Excellence for Professional Advancement and Research (COEPAR), University of Texas Medical Branch, 2023
Awarded 6 Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University: Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 (2), Fall 2018, Fall 2019
| 2021 | Peer Reviewer, Hastings Center Report |
| 2019 | Peer Reviewer, Science, Technology, and Society |
| 2019–20 | House-based Advisor to Undergraduates in History and Science, Harvard University |
| 2017 | Managing Editor, First 100 Days essay collection, http://first100days.stsprogram.org |
| 2017–20 | Reviewer, Undergraduate Senior Theses in History and Science, Harvard University |
| 2016–19 | Research Officer, Science, Religion, and Culture Program, Harvard University |
| 2016–17 | Coordinator, STS Fellows, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard University |
| 2014–16 | Coordinator, History of Medicine Working Group, History of Science, Harvard University |
| 2013–20 | Ashford Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| 2020 | Strominger Prize Fellowship, Department of History of Science, Harvard University |
| 2019 | Strominger Prize Fellowship, Department of History of Science, Harvard University |
| 2018 | Strominger Prize Fellowship, Department of History of Science, Harvard University |
| 2018 | Graduate Education Beyond the Classroom Trip to Ladakh, India, Dept. History of Science |
| 2018 | American Association for the History of Medicine/NSF Travel Grant |
| 2016 | Chemical Heritage Foundation Travel Grant, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2015 | Received “Excellent” Report on General Examination |
| 2014–15 | Sosland Family Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University |
| 2014 | Summer School Tuition Fellowship (German Language Instruction), Harvard University |
| 2012 | TEDMed Front-Line Scholarship, Washington, D.C. |
| 2008 | Early-Career Scholar Grant, American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities |
Available upon request.