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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 


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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Katherine Brigham
katherine.brigham@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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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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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 
MA in English Literature, Northwestern University
MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, Northwestern University
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Aesthetic Theory, Literary Theory, and Poetry and 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
 
Pooya Imani
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Noor Imran
noor.imran@emory.edu
MPhil Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University
MA Critical Theory, Sussex university
MA Philosophy of Art, Art University of Tehran
BA Political Science, SBU of Tehran
Research Interests: Greek philosophy; 19th- and 20th-century European philosophies; psychoanalysis; the post-deconstructive turn in contemporary European thought; history and theory of religion(s); Iranian poetry and mysticism; Greco-Persian historical relations; political theory; communism; theories of revolution.
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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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Abolfazl Jafari Khaneh
abolfazl.jafari.khaneh@emory.edu
BA
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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
MA Emory University 2024
BA Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Economics, Villanova University, 2018
Research Interests: Black Critical Theory, Carceral Studies, Kant, and Nietzsche; Psychoanalysis, French 20th Century Philosophy, Latin American 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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Kyriaki (Kelly) Schoina
kyriaki.schoina@emory.edu
BA
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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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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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Madison Wang
madison.wang@emory.edu
BA
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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: Research Interests: Philosophies of Race (Mixed Race Theory, Decolonial Thought, Critical Black Study), Pragmatism, Existentialism, Ethics, and Pedagogy.
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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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