Graduate Student Directory

David Ferris
david.ferris@emory.edu
MA Humanities and Social Thought, New York University, 2013
BA Social Studies, Harvard University, 2006
Research Interests: Social-Political Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Law, Democratic Humility
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Taina Figueroa
tfiguer@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, Trinity College, 2012
Research Interests: Critical Philosophy of Race, Latinx Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Caribbean Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism
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Catherine Fullarton
cfullar@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Ryerson University, 2013
BA Contemporary Studies & History, University of King's College, 2010
Research Interests: Ethics (esp. Virtue Ethics), 20th Century Continental (esp. Phenomenology), Ancient Philosophy (esp. Aristotle), Philosophy of Emotions.
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Bradford Gladstone
bradford.louis.gladstone@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, Haverford College, 2018
Research Interests: Philosophy of Race, Value Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception
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Grace Goh
shuang.goh@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, DePaul University, 2015
BA Psychology, DePaul University, 2015
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophical Psychology, Asian Philosophy, Bergson, Freud, David Lewis; the relation between time/temporality and the self/subjectivity
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Noah Gounoue
noah.gounoue@emory.edu
BA Philosophy & Educational Sciences, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2018
Research Interests: Social Epistemology, Epistemic Injustice, Philosophy of Mind
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E. Hughes
erica.hughes@emory.edu 
MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, Northwestern University
MA in English Literature, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Literary Theory, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Black Ontology, Black Literature, Prosody, & Poetics
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Scholastique Iradukunda
scholastique.iradukunda@emory.edu
BA
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Leah Kaplan
leah.kaplan@emory.edu
MA African American Studies, Northwestern University, 2020
MA Philosophy and Art, Stony Brook University, 2017
Research Interests: Black Critical Theory, Caribbean Philosophy, Phenomenology, Time, Black Ecology
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Molly Kelly
molly.elizabeth.kelly@emory.edu
MA Public Policy, Philosophy, and Social Policy, George Washington University, 2018
BA Political Science, Boston University, 2015
Research Interests: Critical Phenomenology, Trauma Studies, Feminist Philosophy, Social-Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
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Yuchen Liang
yuchen.liang@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2017
BA German Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2017
Research Interests: Heidegger, Phenomenology, Kyoto School, Chan(Zen) Buddhism
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Teelin Lucero
teelin.dia.lucero@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, Colorado College, 2016
Research Interests: Decolonial philosophy, Heidegger, Philosophy of Race, Latinx Philosophy
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Patrick Pender
patrick.pender@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2020.
AB Government, Harvard University, 2017.
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis (esp. Lacan), German Idealism (esp. Hegel), Marxism, 20th century French philosophy.
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Gabriela Puche
gabriela.puche@emory.edu
BA Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Economics, Villanova University, 2018
Research Interests: Caribbean philosophy, Decolonial philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Latinx Philosophy
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Belen Pueyo-Ibanez
belen.pueyo.ibanez@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History, Goldsmiths University of London
BA Journalism, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
BA Music (Specialization in Violin Performance), Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Moral Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Pragmatism
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Whitney Ronshagen
whitney.ronshagen@emory.edu
BA Philosophy (English Literature minor), Trinity College, 2014
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy, Critical Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Food
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Sara Saba
sara.anne.saba@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (SBU), 2015
BA Philosophy and Literature, University of New Mexico, 2012
Research Interests: Philosophical Psychology, Trauma Theory, Philosophy of Psychology/Psychiatry, Ethics, Bioethics
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Everet Smith
everet.smith@emory.edu
MA Ethics & Applied Philosophy (Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), 2021
BA Philosophy (Minor in Sustainable Development), Appalachian State University, 2018
Research Interests: Latin American Philosophy, Chicana Thought, Decolonial Theory, Critical Theory (esp. the Frankfurt School)
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Morinade Jayla Stevenson
mstev27@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College, 2019
Research Interests: Black Feminism, Decolonial Feminisms, Black Aesthetics (film and literature), 20th Century Continental Philosophy
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Betty Stoneman
betty.jean.stoneman@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Emory University, 2019
BA Philosophy (Minors in Ethics, Peace and Justice Studies), Utah Valley University, 2015
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century Continental, Social and Political Philosophy
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Kyle Tanaka
kyle.takeshi.tanaka@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2016
BA Philosophy, CSU Stanislaus, 2014
Research Interests: Late 19th century/early 20th century Continental philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger), hermeneutics, philosophies of categorization and organization
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Ana Vieyra
avieyra@emory.edu
BA Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2019
Research Interests: German Idealism (Hegel and Kant), Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Meta-ethics.
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Jason Walsh
jason.philip.walsh@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio, 2017
BA Philosophy & Computer Science (African-American Studies minor), Case Western Reserve University, 2015
Research Interests: Frankfurt School, Marxism(s), Social and Political Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
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Daniel Westbrook
daniel.michael.westbrook@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2018
BA Philosophy, Northern Arizona University, 2016
Research Interests: Philosophy of Race (esp. Black Philosophy and Mixed Race), Feminist Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Pragmatism, Phenomenology and Critical Phenomenology, Existentialism, Ethics
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Teague Wiebe
twiebe@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2019
BA Philosophy, University of Portland, 2015
BA French Studies, University of Portland, 2015
Research Interests: American Pragmatism, Ancient Philosophy, Existentialism (esp. de Beauvoir), Philosophical Psychology, Ethics
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