Trystan Goetze

Dr. Goetze (they/them/theirs, or any pronouns) is the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay, Jr., ’36 Senior Lecturer and Director of the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering. They grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and attended the University of Waterloo (Honours Knowledge Integration with Joint Honours Philosophy, 2008–12), York University (M.A. in Philosophy, 2012–13) and the University of Toronto (M.A. in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education, 2013–14) before taking their Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield (2014–18). Before coming to Cornell, Dr. Goetze worked as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Dalhousie University (2019–21), an Ethics and Educational Development Consultant for Ethically Aligned AI, Inc. (2021), and a Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS at Harvard University (2021–23). In their research, Dr. Goetze has written about moral responsibility, epistemic injustice, the ethics of computing technologies, and interdisciplinary ethics pedagogy. In addition to directing the Bovay Program, Dr. Goetze is also an affiliate faculty member in the Sage School of Philosophy. In their spare time, Dr. Goetze designs, runs, and plays tabletop roleplaying games.