Maureen joined Ethical Reasoning in Action in 2023. Maureen is a professor in the School of Art, Design and Art History (SADAH) and a former attorney. She is a modernist art historian with a specialization in twentieth century France and the French Empire, war trauma and trauma theory, gender and masculinity, and anti-colonial critiques. She has taught at JMU since 2004 and has published 15 peer reviewed articles; the co-edited book, Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (University Press of Florida, July 2016); and the co-curated exhibition catalog, Colonial Wounds / Postcolonial Repair (Duke Hall Gallery of Art, James Madison University, distributed by University of Virginia Press, 2019). Her monograph, Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War: The Art of Fernand Léger is forthcoming with Pennsylvania State University Press, expected May 2024. Her current book project, tentatively entitled Seeing Another Paris: The French Colonial Subject in the Metropole (1914-39, focuses on the representation and self-representation of French colonial subjects in the Paris region during the first half of the twentieth century. Her research project for the ERiA investigates how the School of Art, Design and Art History (SADAH) engages with key concepts articulated in the Eight Key Questions, such as “fairness,” equity, legitimacy, responsibility, “ideal self”, freedom, autonomy, consent, empathy, liberty, authority, experts, law, and rights. Her study seeks to show how art, artmaking, artistic skills, and critical historical analyses are bound up with ethical reasoning skills and democratic practice.