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Jadon Adams
jadon.adams@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, KU Leuven, 2020
BA Philosopgy, KU Leuven, 2018
Research Interests: Phenomenology, Critical Phenomenology, Frantz Fanon, Psychoanalysis, Critical Philosophy of Race
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Fay Alafouzou
foteini.alafouzou@emory.edu
Philosophy MA (Panteion University, Athens), 2022
Philosophy of Law LLM (National Kapodistrian University of Athens), 2020
Law, BA (National Kapodistrian University of Athens), 2018
Research interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology; Post-Structuralism; Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Spinoza 

Owen Alldritt
owen.alldritt@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, 2014
BA Philosophy, Carleton College, 2012
Research Interests: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, 19th- and 20th-Century European Philosophy, Pragmatism
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Bernardo Andrade
bandrad@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Emory University, 2021
BA Philosophy, Middlebury College, 2018
Research Interests: 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Emmanuel Levinas, Neoplatonism
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Joe Benavides
joseph.santiago.benavides@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, 2012
BFA Cinematography, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Research Interests: Marxism, historical materialism, hope, utopianism. Hegel. Aesthetics (esp. photography)
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Tirza Ben-Ezzer
tirza.ben-ezzer@emory.edu
BA
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Shouta Brown
shouta.brown@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Miami University, 2015
BA Philosophy, Western Kentucky University, 2013
Research Interests: Aesthetics (esp. Humor), Social and Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy
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Jason Cabitac
jason.exar.cabitac@emory.edu
MTS Theological Studies, Boston University, 2019
BA Religious Studies, Naropa University, 2016
Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Nature, Comparative Metaphysics, Religion & Ecology, German Idealism and Romanticism (esp. Hamann and Schelling), Classical American Pragmatism (esp. Peirce), Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Böhme and Bacon)
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Mara Cayarga
mara.cayarga@emory.edu
BA
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Juliana Cesar
juliana.cesar@emory.edu
BA
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Michael Chiddo
michael.chiddo@emory.edu
MA Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2015
BA Philosophy and Political Science, Hunter College, 2008
Research Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Nietzsche
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Daniel Estrada
daniel.estrada@emory.edu 
BA Political Science and Philosophy, Villanova University, 2022

Research Interests: Borders and (Im)migration, Phenomenology, Social and Political Philosophy, Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Identity
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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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Joshua Harrington
joshua.harrington@emory.edu
BA
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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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Jaeden Johnson
jaeden.johnson@emory.edu
BA Political Science, Morehouse College, 2022
Research Interests: Black Critical Theory, Black Political Thought, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis
 

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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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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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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Deanrea Sykes Jr.
deanrea.sykes.jr@emory.edu
BA
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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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Vidya Yin
zhannan.yin@emory.edu
BA
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