Eisen Publications and Research
Dr. Eisen's current scholarship includes teaching in the center's Master of Arts in Bioethics and in Emory's Master of Science in Clinical Research programs. Dr. Eisen publishes academic articles in science, science education, and bioethics with expertise in epigenetics, research ethics, science education, ethics of teaching, and Buddhism and science.
Publications listed here from 2020-2026. Please see full CV for complete listing.
Publications
Compassion Meditation to Improve Psychological Wellbeing Among Volunteer Collegiate Emergency Medical Technicians, S Sonsurkar, A Eisen, E Bauer, I Vyas, NA. Giordano, JS. Mascaro, J. Coll. Emerg. Med. Serv. 7(1), 2025.
Goldberg, G. Poppitz, S. Sonsurkar, J. Manuel, J. Klaus, E. Zhang, M. Goldberg, K. Gray and A. Eisen, Engaging science across cultures: building a research community of Buddhist monastics and undergraduate and faculty mentors, Discover Education, 2024. https://doi.org/10.100https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-024-00166-y7/s44217-024-00166-y. Role: mentor, facilitator, senior author, provided guidance, resources, on all aspects, research design, writing, editing, identifying journal, publishing.
Eisen, A., and L.W. Uhl, Future Air Force Officers Get a 30,000-foot View of Death in this Course, The Conversation, Oct 31, 2022. Role: co-wrote with my co-teacher, a philosopher who worked with me to develop and teach the course on death and dying at the Air Force Academy that I originally taught at Emory.
Mascaro, J. , D. Shellman, W. Keaton, M. Willson, E. Brauer, T. Samphel, H. Chang, C. Raison, J. Zivot and A. Eisen, Mixed-Method Evaluation of the Public Health Questionnaire for Estimating Depression Among Tibetan Buddhist Monastics https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.752820/full, Role: served as organizer, brought this interdisciplinary team (MD, nurse, biologist, Tibetan Scholar, Psychiatrist) together, senior author and resource-provider.
Nusslock, M.Balgopal , G. Hue , J. Zivot , L. Negi and A. Eisen, The Emory-Tibet Science Initiative: A Historic Collaboration Between Modern Science and Tibetan Buddhism—Insights From a Spiritual Leader, Front. Commun., Oct 2021, doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.765368. Role: This was the lead article on a special issue I initiated and coordinated, solicited, and edited for this journal, included 19 total articles from dozens for scholars from around the world, and has garnered 59,000 views and downloads.
Kulp, D, L. O’Neill, T. Quest, S. Tamasi, K. Loudermilk, and A. Eisen, Teaching death: exploring the end of life in an undergraduate course, Innovation and Education 3, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42862-021-00014-y. Role: This was an honors thesis project publication which included collaborators from the medical school, linguistics, and the ILA, involving a course I co-developed and led with the first author; it has been accessed over 3400 times.
Eisen, A. A New Model for Increasing Diversity in STEM Faculty. Issues in Science and Technology 36, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 26–33. Role: Sole author on this article about the FIRST project which I have been director of teaching for the last 25 years.
Presentations
Art, Mindfulness, Life: Connecting Art & Spiritual Practices with Community, with Carlton Mackey, High Art Museum and Nisha Gupta, Univ of West Georgia, American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, May 2024.
10 Lessons I Learned Teaching Science to the Dalai Lama’s Monks and Nuns--or Good Ways to Grow Old; 4-hr short-course taught at Shearith Israel Synagogue, Feb, 2025
Why I Have Hope: Reflections from 35 Years of Teaching a Bit of Everything to Nearly Everybody, First Existentialist Church of Atlanta, June 2024.
What makes you who you are? Nature, nurture, and the new science of epigenetics, Ft. Garland, CO and Walsenburg, CO, May 14-15, 2022.
Becoming a Scientist in the 21st Century: Symposium organized at Emory to celebrate the 20th anniversary of FIRST, attended by 100+ undergrads, postdocs, and faculty from over 50 universities and colleges, 2020.
Special Projects
Founding member of IDEAS: InterDisciplinary Exploration and Scholarship, 3-year fellowship for 24 undergraduates that integrates liberal arts learning, living, and community to catalyze integrated thinking across campus at all levels. 2018-2025