Current Graduate Students
(Contact philprint@duq.edu for updates.)
M.A. Students |
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Ryan Adams |
Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Kyoto School, Philosophy of Religion, Early Christian thought, Medieval Buddhism |
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Sabrina Bungash |
Philosophy and Literature, Existential Phenomenology, Political Theory and Race Theory |
| Robert Clafin | Existentialism, phenomenology, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of religion, Spinoza, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas |
| Will Conway | Bio-politics, Foucault, Deleuze-Guattari, Philosophy of Disability, Critical Theory (esp. Marcuse), French Nietzscheanism, and Existentialism (esp. Sartre) |
| Austin Cottrell | |
| Fraser Fontane | Interdisciplinary focus on Psychology and Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Esp. Jungian perspectives), Philosophy of Psychology, Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Existentialism. |
| Joshua Gilliland | |
| Tate Hudson | Phenomenology (esp. Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty), Cross-Cultural Existentialism, Eastern theory/praxis (esp. Zen Buddhism), Lucretius, Heraclitus, Iain McGilchrist |
| Lillianne John | Critical Theory (Habermas), Critical Traditions of Indian Philosophy (Ambedkar), Feminist Epistemology & Metaphysics, Philosophical Theology, Philosophy of Technology, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, Theories of Absence (Buddhist & Nyāya Epistemologies) and Praxis |
| Wade Larison | 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology (Esp. Heidegger), Speculative Realism, Contemporary Ontology, Social and Political Philosophy |
| Tiffany Race | Theory (including psychoanalytic, ethical, political, sex, desire, feminist, post-colonial, critical, and media); Lacan, Deleuze, Hegel, and Kant. |
| Derek Saldanha | The Early Phenomenological movement, especially the work of Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius, and its influence on the Philosophical Hermeneutics of Hans-Geog Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur |
| Gabriela Sanchez | German Idealism (esp. Kant & Hegel), Phenomenology of Place, Feminist Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Contemporary French Philosophy |
| Adam Strakna | Post-Structuralism, Anarchist Political Philosophy, Post-Anarchism and Max Stirner |
| Patrick Weller | Levinas, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy |
Ph.D. Students |
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| Gizem Atalay | Metaphysics, Enlightenment and Metaphilosophy |
| Jaclyn Berg | Social and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, phenomenology, morals, and ethics |
| Roland Carspecken (ABD) |
Dissertation: "Illocution and Dialectic: Foundations of an Immanent Critique of Speech Act Theory in Hegel's Philosophy of Language" (directed by Dr. Jay Lampert); 19th-century and contemporary French and German philosophy |
| Eva Chrysochoou | 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy (existentialism, aesthetics, phenomenology), history of philosophy |
| Daniel Cook (ABD) |
Dissertation: "Cartesian Diagrammatics: Figures of Modal Transgression in Descartes's Early Writings" (directed by Dr. Daniel Selcer); Diagrammatics, Early Modern Philosophy, Phenomenology |
| Gaia Ferrari | German Idealism (esp. Hegel), 20th Century French Philosophy, Phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty), Post-Structuralism (esp. Deleuze & Derrida) |
| Magdalena Figiel (ABD) |
Dissertation: "Desire and Limitation in the Philosophy of Aristotle (directed by Dr. Ron Polansky); Ancient Greek Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science |
| Mackenzie Foster | Phenomenology, Postmodernism, Medieval Philosophy, Applied Philosophy, Theories of Language and Meaning, Philosophy of gender and race, and ethics |
| Alexander Gorman (ABD) | Dissertation: "Figures of the State in Althusserian Marxism: 1966-1980" (directed by Dr. Tom Eyers); Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction |
| Devon Hawkins (ABD) | Dissertation: "Eudaimonism and Postmodern Identity" (directed by Dr. Fred Evans); Ancient Philosophy, German Idealism, Phenomenology, Logic, and Ethics |
| Aaron Higgins-Brake (ABD) | Dissertation: "Form and Matter in Kant's Theoretical Philosophy" (directed by Dr. Jennifer Bates); German Idealism, Ancient Philosophy (especially Neoplatonism) |
| Onur Kokerer | Kant, Hegel, Critical Theory, Dialectics, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics (esp. Ricoeur), Philosophy of History (esp. Koselleck), Social & Political Philosophy, Social Theory |
| Michael Kramer (ABD) |
Dissertation: Manifestation and Revelation of Psyche: The Aesthetic and Noetic Sense(s) of Psychedelic Phenomenology (directed by Dr. Jay Lampert); Philosophy of Mysticism and Religious Experience; Consciousness Studies; Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics; Rhetoric, Literary Theory and Criticism |
| Christopher Lutz (ABD) |
"Aristotle's Division of the Sciences" (directed by Dr, Kelly Arenson); Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Ontology, Philosophy of Art |
| Millie Marshall | History of Mathematics and Science, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Contemporary French Philosophy |
| Tristana Martin-Rubio (ABD) | Dissertation: "Time and Life in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy" (directed by Dr. Fred Evans); Phenomenology |
| Elizabete Mezinska | |
| Ellen Moysan (ABD) | Dissertation: "Inner Song: Phenomenological Description of a Musical Object of Fantasy" (directed by Dr. Lanei Rodemeyer); Phenomenology, French and German contemporary philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Music, Psychoanalysis |
| Michael-Francis Polios |
Early-modern and contemporary political philosophy, Spinoza, history of materialism, and nineteenth century German thought |
| John Henry Reilly | Philosophy of Time, Phenomenology (esp. Heidegger, Husserl, and Hans Jonas), History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Science, Early Modern Rationalism, Ethics (esp. Meta-Ethics, Virtue & Responsibility Ethics, and Bioethics) |
| Mine Sak (ABD) |
Dissertation: " ‘Repeat a Little' ": Pursing Freedom in Deleuze's Difference and Repetition" (directed by Dr. Jay Lampert); Continental Philosophy and Phenomenology (esp. Heidegger), Post-structuralism, Ancient Greek philosophy, German idealism (esp. Hegel), History of Philosophy |
| Zachary Slanger (ABD) |
Dissertation: "Theorizing the Self: A Laplanchian Reading of Autobiography in Augustine, Rousseau, and Freud" (directed by Dr. Tom Eyers); Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality; German idealism; French Existential Phenomenology; Queer Theory; Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy and Literature |
| Sparkles Stanford | Plato, Nietzsche, Marx, Deleuze, Politics, Ontology, Philosophy of Music |
| Thomas Szwedska (ABD) |
Dissertation: "Difference and Alterity in Hegel and Deleuze": (directed by Dr. Jay Lampert); 18th-20th Century French & German Philosophy; Critical Ontology; Social & Political Thought |
| Mitch Thiessen | Heidegger, Kant, Schmitt; Philosophy of Education and Law; Mathematical Logic; Metaphysics |
| Kimberly Tucker |
Phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty), Critical Phenomenology, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Humanities, Health Care Ethics |
| Jurgis Viningas | Ontology, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy; Spinoza, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze |