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Melody Allison

Affiliation: graduate student, gtf
Title: PhD
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: melodya@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Wednesdays from 2-4 pm in 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Affiliated Departments: Philosophy
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Barbara Muraca
Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Worldviews and Paradigm Shifts, Human-Nature Relationships, the Degrowth Movement, and Food Systems.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melody-allison-086a71159/
Website: Website

Max Backderf

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: M.A.
E-mail: mbackder@uoregon.edu
Teaching Level: Masters

Abbas Bagwala

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: PhD
Additional Title: GE and Promising Scholar
E-mail: abagwala@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: 1000 - 1200 on Fridays
Interests: philosophy of machine learning, philosophy of science, epistemology, political philosophy, Marxist thought, pragmatism

Tali Bitton

Affiliation: graduate employee
Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: tbitton@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Affiliated Departments: IRES
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Materialism, Marxism, Social Reproduction Theory; Feminism; Anticolonial Theory

Audrey Brown

Title: PhD
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: asaltar2@uoregon.edu
Office: 11A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Thursdays from 12-3 pm
Affiliated Departments: IRES
Interests: History of philosophy, American philosophy, Religious Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy

Brooke Burns

Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: bburns8@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Feminist philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Genealogy (esp. Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams)

Gonzalo Bustamante-Moya

Affiliation: gtf
Title: Ph.D. & GE
Additional Title: Managing Editor Hypatia Reviews Online | Undergraduate Advisor
E-mail: gonzalob@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall Room 11B
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 11:30-13:30 at 11B Susan Campbell Hall or by appointment
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Political and Social Philosophy (esp. critiques of capitalism), Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein), German Idealism, Critical Theory

Asher Caplan

Affiliation: student employee
Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: acaplan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7352
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30pm-3:30pm and by appointment
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Philosophy of Media & Technology, Social Epistemology, Pragmatism, Applied Ethics (esp. data ethics, bioethics, AI ethics), Aesthetics

Massimo Cisternino

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: mcistern@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays from 10:30am-12:30pm
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: History of Philosophy, American and Continental Philosophies, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Experience, Political Philosophy

Hunter Clark

Title: MA
E-mail: huntercl@uoregon.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind; Free Will; Epistemology; Metaethics; Political Philosophy

Kit Connor

Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: kconnor@uoregon.edu
Office: remote only
Office Hours: Email only
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Camisha Russell & Erin McKenna
Interests: applied feminism, critical phenomenology, philosophy of language, trauma studies, disability theories

Nick Denning

Title: Grad Student
E-mail: ndenning@uoregon.edu
Interests: Feminist Epistemology, Existentialism, John Locke and the Philosophy of Property and Money

Joseph Dillabough

Affiliation: gtf
Title: Graduate Student
E-mail: jdillabo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5544
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: 1:00-2:00 on Monday & Wednesday.
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: American Philosophy & Pragmatism (esp. Charles S. Peirce & Josiah Royce); Phenomenology, Categories, Semiotics, Metaphysics, & History of Philosophy.

Eris Donohue

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: MA
E-mail: erisd@uoregon.edu
Interests: Trans Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, 20th-21st Century Continental Thought (esp. Poststructuralism), Nietzsche, Aesthetics

Amanda Dubrule

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: adubrule@uoregon.edu
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays from 9-10am and Fridays from 3-4pm
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Pragmatism, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Theory, Disability Studies, Philosophy of Film, Political Theory

Ricardo Friaz

Affiliation: gtf
Title: ABD Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: rfriaz@uoregon.edu
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: 11-1pm Friday
Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Decolonial Theory, Latin American philosophy, 19th and 20th-century Continental philosophy
Website: Website

Puja Ghosh

Affiliation: student employee
Title: ABD
Additional Title: GE & Promising Scholar
E-mail: pghosh@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024: 3:20-5:20PM
Affiliated Departments: Philosophy
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; South Asian Marxism & Critical Caste Studies; Critical Phenomenology; Political Decolonial Ecologies; Feminist Philosophy & Queer Studies; Indian Philosophical Traditions; De/Postcolonial Thought

Gary Glenewinkel

Title: MA
E-mail: gglenewi@uoregon.edu

Ale Gutiérrez

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: MA
E-mail: agut@uoregon.edu
Interests: Decolonial and Post-colonial theory, Philosophy of race and gender, Philosophy of emotion, Queerness, Necropolitics, and State-sponsored violence

Orlando Hawkins

Affiliation: graduate employee
Title: Ph.D. Student
Additional Title: Raymund Fellow & Promising Scholar
E-mail: ohawkin2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5547
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 4:00pm-5:00pm and Friday 9:45am-10:45am (SCH)
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Existentialism, Black Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Black Marxism and Political philosophy

Rugile Kasperiunaite

Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: rkasperi@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 PM
Interests: Language, Logic, Philosophy of Technology, Pre-Qin Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Bjørn Ralf Kristensen

Affiliation: gtf
Title: ABD Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE for Religious Studies
E-mail: brk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Office Hours: Wednesdays 8:00am to 10:00am and by appointment during Spring 2024
Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, Landscape Arch, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Multispecies Studies, Animal Ethics, Medical and Public Health Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, American Pragmatism (John Dewey), Ecofeminism (Val Plumwood), Development Studies, Water & Sanitation, Informal Settlements
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjornrk/
Research Website: Research
Website: Website

Rhiannon Lindgren

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE & GTFF Steward 2021.2022
E-mail: rlindgr3@uoregon.edu
Office: 11C Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:50 am in 11B (basement) of SCH. 1-1:50pm in SCH 11B Wednesday 4-4:50 pm in SCH 11B
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Bonnie Mann
Interests: Marxist Feminism, Historical Materialism, Social Reproduction, Political Theory, Social Theory, Queer Politics, and Wages for Housework

Edgar Mauricio Llamas

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE & Promising Scholar (2022-23)
E-mail: ellamas@uoregon.edu
Office: 11A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30-3pm
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Heidegger, Marx, critical phenomenology, Latin American philosophy, psychoanalysis

Sarah McLay

Title: ABD Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: smclay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5547
Office: 161 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Thursdays from 1:30-3:30 PM
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, Critical Disability Studies, Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine
Website: Website

John Montani

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: jmontani@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021 TBA
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Grant Nagai

Affiliation: gtf
Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: gnagai3@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 11B
Office Hours: Thursdays, 12:00-2:00pm
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Genealogy, Historical Materialism, Aesthetics, Decolonial Thought, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Science

Zachary Nickels

Affiliation: graduate employee, graduate student, gtf
Title: MA
E-mail: znickels@uoregon.edu
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature

Zeinab Nobowati

Title: ABD Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: zeinabn@uoregon.edu
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2021 Fridays 3-5:00
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Colin Koopman
Interests: Social political philosophy (esp. Foucault and Frankfurt School), feminist philosophy, ethics, postcolonial theory

Rosa O'Connor Acevedo

Affiliation: graduate employee
Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: roconno2@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2022: Monday 2:50 pm-3:50 pm and Friday 9:50 am-10:50 am
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Bonnie Mann
Interests: Caribbean Thought, Decolonial thought, Latin America Decolonial Feminism, Black Feminism, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and Michel Foucault.
Website: Website

Xiao Ouyang

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: xiaoo@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021 TBA
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Rocío Zambrana
Interests: The later philosophy of Heidegger in a cross-cultural context

Daniel Peres Santos

Affiliation: graduate employee
Title: PhD
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: danper@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Interests: Phenomenology (early and contemporary), Logic (classical and non-traditional), Ancient Greek Philosophy

Sanjula Rajat

Affiliation: graduate student
Title: Ph.D. & G.E.
Additional Title: GTFF Steward 2023-2024
E-mail: srajat@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Student Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11.30am-1.30pm.
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Interests: Feminist Theory; Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory; Philosophy of Race; Queer Theory; Trans Studies; Critical Caste Studies

Annie Ring

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: Hypatia Social Media Editor/Managing Editor Assistant
E-mail: annaleer@uoregon.edu
Office: 11C Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Adviser: Beata Stawarska, Camisha Russell, Bonnie Mann, and Charise Cheney
Interests: Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Language and Mythology, Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
Research Website: Research
Website: Website

Augie Schiano

Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: aschian4@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7352
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
City: Eugene
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Feminist Philosophy. My current research is on touch, intimacy, and love.

Christopher Shambaugh

Title: Ph.D. Candidate
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: cshambau@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021 TBA
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: 19th Century German Philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Biology

Sophia Spangler

Title: MA
E-mail: sspangl4@uoregon.edu

Matthew Stone

Affiliation: graduate employee, graduate student
Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: mattjs@uoregon.edu
Office: SCH 221
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 12-2:00 pm or by appointment
Interests: Pragmatism (esp. John Dewey), Environmental Pragmatism, Ecofeminism, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind

Matthew Tuten

Title: Ph.D. Student & G.E.
Additional Title: GTFF Steward 2023-2024
E-mail: mtuten@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: TTh 10:00am - 11:00am
Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Decolonial Thought, Philosophy of Race, Empirical Methods, Critical Engagements with American Philosophy

Shunji Ukai

Title: Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: shunjiu@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2022 By Appointment on Fridays 3-5 PM at SCH221
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: John Dewey's later naturalism, Charles S. Peirce, Hannah Arendt

James "Mike" Waldeck

Title: PhD
E-mail: waldeck@uoregon.edu

Kirstin Waldkoenig

Title: ABD Ph.D.
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: kirstinw@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5547
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:50-3:50pm in SCH 11A
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: Environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy, body & materiality, ethics

Maia Wellborn

Title: Ph.D.
E-mail: mwellbor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7352
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00AM-12:00PM
Teaching Level: Doctoral
Interests: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Critical Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, Queer and Trans Studies

Julie Williams-Reyes

Title: Ph.D. Student
Additional Title: GE
E-mail: jvw@uoregon.edu
Office: 11A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2024
Interests: feminisms, environmental philosophy, critical theory, social-political philosophies, pragmatism/pluralism
Research Website: Research