Graduate Students

MA Students

Francine Foote

Andrea Passantino

April Steenburgh

Advisor: Lisa Tessman

MA/PhD Students

Alejandro Arango-Vargas

Meta-ethics and Ethics, Phenomenology, Existentialism
Advisor: Randy Friedman

Sean Cummings

Ethics, Environmental Ethics
Advisor: Christopher Knapp

Brandon Davis-Shannon

Political Philosophy, Ethics
Advisor: Lisa Tessman

Brad Evers

Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Nietzsche
Advisor: Max Pensky

Saba Fatima

Transnational "Third World" Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
Dissertation: "Muslim Political Identity"

Fuat Gürsözlü

Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Theory
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "The Problem of Peaceful Political Action in Participatory Politics"

Selin Gürsözlü

Virtue Ethics, Feminist Theory, Critical Theories
of Race
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
Dissertation: "Oppression and a Pluralistic Eudaimonism in Non-Ideal Worlds"

Neda Hadjikhani

Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Philosophy of Law and Public Policy
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "The Subject of International Law: The International Criminal Court, the State, and the Question of Legal Standing"

Susan Henry

Advisor: Anna Gotlib

Sean Johnston

Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Theory, Foucault, Rawls
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On

Matthew Klauber

Advisor: Tony Preus

Ayse Kucukkirca

Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "Homes: A Rethinking of the Formation of an Everyday Space"

Jessica Kyle

Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On

Jason Mallory

Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "On the Political Justification of Punishment and Prisons"

Jack Marsh

Advisor: Anna Gotlib

Andrés Molina

Legal Philosophy, Business Ethics
Advisor: Christopher Knapp
Dissertation: "The Dependence of Morality on Law"

Marlisa Moschella

Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Buddhist Ethics
Advisor: Lisa Tessma

Monica Mueller

Ethics/Moral Theory, Ancient and Modern History of Philosophy, Phenomenology
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
Dissertation: "An Inquiry into the Relationship between Thought and Action: Interpreting Phonesis"

Tugrul Ozkaracalar

Ethics/Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Social and Political Philosophy
Advisor: Christopher Knapp

Jessie Payson

Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On

Shoni Rancher

Ethics, Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
Advisor: Bob Guay

Regan Rule

Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Aesthetics
Advisor: Randy Friedman

Richard Saucedo

Social and Political Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Asian and Buddhist Philosophy, Ethics
Advisor: Charles Goodman

Valerie Saint-Amand

Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Theories of Race
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "A Contradiction in Terms: Race, Revolution and the Enlightenment Project"

Nathan Schmidt

Philosophy of Biology/Psychology, Meta-ethics
Advisor: Christopher Knapp
Dissertation: "What it's Like to be a Moral Agent"

Danesh Singh

Continental Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy, Philosophy of Race
Advisor: Charles Goodman

Lewis Trelawny-Cassity

Ancient Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Environmental Ethics
Advisor: Tony Preus

Edgar Valdez

Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Advisor: Melissa Zinkin
Dissertation: "Space and Time in Kant's Philosophy: Its Precursors, Influences and Shortcomings"

Shay Welch

Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Meta-ethics, Hindu Philosophy
Advisor: Bat-Ami Bar On
Dissertation: "Freedom, Consent, and Obligation"

Joshua Wretzel

German Philosophy (esp. Kant and Hegel), Phenomenology
Advisor: Bob Guay
Dissertation: "Hegel's Critique of Brandom"