Rosalyn W. Berne (née Wiggins) is an American scholar, author, and the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia.

[3] Rosalyn W. Berne was born in New York State, then moved with her parents to Philadelphia where she spent her childhood in a Quaker-founded residential community.

Berne's research focuses on the intersections of emerging technologies, science, fiction, and myth, as well as the connections between the human and non-human worlds.

As an author, she has published academic and non-academic books on topics such as engineering ethics, science fiction as well as animal communication, notably relating to the equine world.

[6][7] In 2023, she received a NSF grant renewable to expand the Online Ethics Center to a community of practice.