Graduate Students

Paria Akbar Akhgari

Specialization: Greek philosophy (Plato and Aristotle); German Idealism; contemporary continental philosophy, phenomenology, and hermeneutics

Brock Baines

Specialization: Kant and 19th Century Post-Kantian Philosophy (esp. German Idealism, Hegel); 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger); Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

Elizabeth F. Balskus

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy

Cara E. Bates

Specialization: Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Identity, Philosophy of Time, American Pragmatist Philosophy

Benjamin Brewer

Specialization: 20th c. Continental, German Idealism, Psychoanalysis

Megan M. Burke

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social-Political Philosophy

Larry Busk

Specialization: Nietzsche, Marx and twentieth century Marxist theory (esp. Frankfurt School and the political work of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty), Arendt, philosophy of language, social and political theory

Jesse Chambers

Specialization: Social/political, Feminist, Continental, Peace and conflict, Post-structuralism

Tim Christion Myers

Specialization: Environmental Philosophy, especially ecophenomenology, philosophy of nature, ecofeminism, and climate ethics. Interests: Social Theory, Critical Theory, Spatiality & Place, Human & Nonhuman Agency, Alienation

Anna Cook

Specialization: history of philosophy; social and political philosophy; continental philosophy; feminist philosophy

David Alexander Craig

Specialization: Animality and the Human/Animal Relation; German Idealism, especially Kant; 20th Century Continental, especially Derrida

Russell J. Duvernoy

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

Lauren Eichler

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Environmental Ethics

George N. Fourlas

Specialization: Social-Political, Ethics, Philosophy of Race/ethnicity (specifically Middle-Eastern identity), and Conflict/Peace Studies. Competence: Philosophy of Mind/Language, International Studies, and Continental philosophy.

Billy Dean Goehring

Specialization: Early Modern Philosophy, 20th Century French Philosophy. Metaphysics and Politics.

Elizabeth M. Grosz

Specialization: 19th and 20th century Continental, Philosophical psychology, Phenomenology, 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.

Adam Haaga

Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Schelling, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Math

Guy Hastings

Specialization: Ethics, political, philosophy, existentialism and queer theory.

Shannon Hayes

Specialization: Philosophy of Nature, Phenomenology, Critical Theory

Trey Hodges

Specialization: History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Continental Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Roman Stoicism, and Philosophy of Literature

Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu

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

Jonathan E. Langseth

Specialization: Metaphysics, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy, Logic, Process Philosophy. My dissertation investigates the concepts of continuity and discreteness.

Jon LaRochelle

Specialization: American Pragmatism (Esp. James), History of Philosophy

Hanna Lipkind

Specialization: German philosophy, existentialism, Arendt, Foucault

Katherine Logan

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

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 Billingsley Marvin

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Humor Studies

Teri L. Mayfield

Specialization: Feminist Philosophy

Phil Mayo

Specialization: Ethics (esp. History of Ethics) Moral Psychology, & Hume. Cognate interests in History of Modern, Adam Smith, Political Philosophy and American Philosophy

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

David Reese

Specialization: Continental, Social & Political

Alan P. Reynolds

Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Pragmatism

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.

Eric Rodriguez

Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Spinoza, Queer Theory

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

Bonnie Sheehey

Specialization: Aesthetics, Continental, American Philosophy

Celena M. Simpson

Specialization: African-American Philosophy, Philosophy of Race [with an emphasis on Mixed Race], American Pragmatism

Joshua August Skorburg

Specialization: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Mind (esp. embodied, extended, enactive theories of mind and cognition), Ethics.

Joel Southall

Specialization: Native American philosophy, environmental philosophy, philosophy of race, peace & conflict studies, CRT

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: Continental Philosophy

Karin Sprei Watson

Specialization: history of philosophy, ethics, political theory, and epistemology