Graduate Students

Elizabeth F. Balskus

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Analytic Philosophy, History of Philosophy

Cara E. Bates

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy

Megan M. Burke

Specialization: Ethics/Knowledge, Rationality & Inquiry

Elizabeth "Liz" A. Caldwell

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Embodiment, Philosophies of Education.

Timothy C. Christion Myers

Specialization: Environmental Philosophy

David Alexander Craig

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, esp. Foucault and Arendt; History of Philosophy, esp. German Idealism, Nietzsche and Ancient Greek; Philosophy of Art and Literature

Russell J. Duvernoy

Specialization: Process Ontologies and Metaphysics; Pragmatism; Philosophy and Ethics of Reading and Literature

George N. Fourlas

Specialization: Moral, Legal, & Social-Political

Elizabeth M. Grosz

Specialization: Philosophical psychology, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Existentialism, and Asian philosophy (especially Japanese Buddhism).

Paul J. Guernsey

Specialization: the confluence of phenomenology, ecology, pedagogy (especially Dewey) and Marx, attempting to practice these disciplines in solidarity with women, children and ethnic minorities.

Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Gender, Ethics

Matthew Jacobs

Specialization: History of Philosophy, esp. German Idealism, Pragmatism and Phenomenology.

Jonathan E. Langseth

Specialization: pragmatism, Marxism/Critical Theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy.

Mindy Lawson

Specialization: Political philosophy; pragmatist political philosophy; food politics and policy

Hanna V. Lipkind

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Agency

Katherine Logan Guy

Specialization: History of Philosophy (esp. Modern and 20th-Century Continental), Social and Political Philosophy, Feminism

Caroline R. Lundquist

Specialization: Ethics and Moral Theory

Johanna C. Luttrell

Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy. Competence: Ethics, Aesthetics. Topics: global poverty, the Capabilities Approach, human rights, urban development under globalization, global feminisms, intersections of philosophy and the arts – especially of film and literature.

Amy R. Marvin

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy

Teri L. Mayfield

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy

Philip Mayo

Specialization: Ethics, esp. History of Ethics; Cognitive Science, Moral Cognition, and Moral Theory; Hume. Cognate interests in History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy and American Philosophy

José Jorge Mendoza

Specialization: Moral and Political Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Philosophy of Race

Competence: Applied Ethics, Logic, and Philosophy of Law

Rhea Muchalla

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, Racial Theory, and interests in American Philosophy

Phillip Nelson

Specialization: Phenomenology and Embodiment.

Interests: Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Existentialism, Philosophy of Time, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of War (the experience of soldiers and veterans).

Justin Pack

Specialization: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Pop Culture, Heidegger and Nietzsche, Thoughtless in Modern Academia (Arendt)

Kimberley D. Parzuchowski

Specialization: Pragmatism,19th & 20th c. Continental: Existentialism/Phenomenology, Moral Theory, Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics Imagination & Liberation

Aaron L. Pratt

Specialization: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

Alan P. Reynolds

Specialization: American pragmatism and neo-pragmatism, social-political philosophy, Nietzsche and Foucault

Christine Reynolds

Specialization: environmental philosophy, aesthetics, 20th and 21st century continental philosophy, disability studies

Aaron A. Rodriguez

Specialization: Aesthetics, Ethics, Pragmatism, Nietzsche, History of Philosophy, Native American Philosophy.

Dana L. Rognlie

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Social and Political Philosophy

Ian J. Sato

Specialization: Ancient & Latin American Philosophy

Lucy C. Schultz

Specialization: East-West comparative philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental, Aesthetics

Celena M. Simpson

Specialization: Philosophy of Race with an emphasis on Mixed Race, W.E.B. Du Bois, American Pragmatism

John Taylor

Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ontology, Causation, Modality, Naturalism, Process Philosophy

Edgar I. Temam

Specialization: history of philosophy, critical thinking, basic logic, pedagogy, social & political philosophy--particularly, our thinking about violence & nonviolence, war & peace, force & power, injustice & justice

Jason T. Vanderhaar

Specialization: 19th/20th Century German Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Ethics, Aesthetics, Existentialism/Phenomenology, Philosophy of Literature