Keynote Speaker

Yolonda Wilson, St. Louis University

Yolonda Wilson’s public scholarship on issues of bioethics, race, and gender has appeared in The Hastings Center’s Bioethics Forum and The Conversation and has been republished in outlets such as The Los Angeles TimesThe Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, and The Philly Voice. Her article for The Conversation, “Why Black Women’s Experiences of #MeToo Are Different,” was re-published internationally and forms the basis for an edited volume on feminist philosophy and #MeToo. Her media appearances include outlets such as Al Jazeera English and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio.

Link: Website

Mentors

Anne Margaret Baxley, Washington University in St. Louis

Cohort: Ethics

Anne Margaret Baxley's research interests are primarily in Kant's ethics and the history of ethics. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the American Philosophical Society.

Link: Website

Ami Harbin, Oakland University (Michigan)

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender

Ami Harbin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University (Michigan), and co-editor of APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy. She is the author of Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity(Oxford 2023) and Disorientation and Moral Life (Oxford 2016), as well as numerous articles in moral psychology, philosophy of emotions, and bioethics.

Link: Website

Joyce C. Havstad, University of Utah

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Professor Havstad is a philosopher of science and values with a background in scientific practice. She has worked on a marine reserve, on invasion plant genetics, in a gene expression lab, and behind the scenes at a natural history museum. She has written on animal ethics, avian origins, chemical kinds, climate science and policy, homology, human reproductive cloning, macroevolution, mechanism, natural selection, nuclear receptors, philanthropy, voucher specimen collection, and more.


She has performed an extended ethnography of the laboratory—but also countless tail clips, PCRs, and Western blots. She has published in Bioethics, Biology & Philosophy, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Nature, Perspectives on Science, Philosophy of Science, Public Affairs Quarterly, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Systematic Biology. She is an editor at Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, has written informally for The OUP Blog, has appeared on The Brain Scoop, and is a founder and contributor at Extinct, the philosophy of paleontology blog. She is trained and certified as an Ombuds and serves in that capacity for her primary academic society, the Philosophy of Science Association.

Link: Website

Nico Orlandi, University of California, Santa Cruz

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

I am a philosopher of mind and of cognitive science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My work draws on the history of philosophy and on contemporary research in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and in computer science. A central theme of my research is understanding what kind of capacity perception is, what it presupposes, and what kind of relationship it affords with the environment. In my recent work, I have developed an anti-constructivist account of perception that contrasts with philosophical and psychological orthodoxy. My present projects concern (a) Bayesian and predictive coding models of perception; (b) conceptual development, and (c) the significance of fMRI research for understanding cognition (with a particular focus on the gender literature). I also have interests in epistemology, in aesthetics, and I am affiliated with the Feminist Studies department at UCSC.

Link: Website

Alison N.C. Reiheld, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Cohort: Oppression Theory

Dr. Reiheld specializes in ethics and value theory, with a focus on medical ethics and feminist philosophy. In addition to her research on the ethics of memory, Dr. Reiheld's work covers a broad array of issues--disability, gender, transgender, reproduction, civility--unified by concerns about how power operates upon vulnerable persons in social institutions, including health care settings.

Link: Website

Karen Stohr, Georgetown University

Cohort: Bioethics

Dr. Stohr is the Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her primary research area is ethics, and her publications cover topics such as practical wisdom, moral imagination, beneficence, friendship, social conventions regarding disability, and the moral aims of dinner parties. Dr. Stohr is the author of three books and a number of articles. Her first book, On Manners (Routledge, 2011) is a defense of the moral importance of manners. In her second book, Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement (Oxford University Press, 2019), she focuses on the task of individual and community moral improvement and the role of social practices in facilitating it. Her third book, Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life (forthcoming from Oxford University Press in January 2022) is a reader-friendly exploration of Immanuel Kant’s ethical theory, emphasizing its practical applications in everyday life. Dr. Stohr’s writing has appeared in the New York Times and other newspapers. With Dr. Sulmasy, she has written columns for the Washingtonian magazine’s “Ask a Coronavirus Ethicist” feature. She has been a guest on a variety of radio shows and podcasts, including the Kojo Nnamdi Show and Philosophy Talk. Within bioethics, Dr. Stohr is particularly interested in how social conventions structure our interactions, both in medical care and in related contexts.

Link: Website

Lisa Tessman, Binghamton University

Cohort: Moral Psychology

Lisa Tessman is a professor of philosophy at Binghamton University. She is also a faculty member in the women, gender, and sexuality studies. She currently teaches graduate programs in social, political, ethical and legal philosophy or SPEL.

Link: Website

Lori Watson, Washington University in St. Louis

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

Lori Watson is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on topics in political philosophy, feminism, the philosophy of law, and ethics. She is the author of A Concise Introduction to Logic (with Patrick Hurley), Equal Citizenship and Public Reason: A Feminist Political Liberalism (with Christie Hartley), Debating Pornography (with Andrew Altman), and Debating Sex Work (with Jessica Flanagan). She co-edited (with Brian D. Earp and Clare Chambers) The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Sex.

Link: Website

Cynthia Willett, Emory University

Cohort: Continental Philosophy

Cynthia Willett is Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University.


Her authored books include Uproarious: How Feminist Comics and Other Subversives Speak Truth (2019); Interspecies Ethics (2014); Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Freedom and Democracy (2008); The Soul of Justice: Racial Hubris and Social Bonds (2001); and Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1995). She edited Theorizing Multiculturalism (1998). She is currently working on a book on philosophy of music.

Link: Homepage

Mentees

Zoe Anthony, University of Toronto

Cohort: Continental Philosophy

Zoe Anthony received her Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Toronto and is currently a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests are in the history of philosophy, philosophy of religions, and the philosophy of medicine. In her research, she examines the relationship between philosophy and theology, and the construction of responses to the problems of evil and suffering. She also focuses on philosophical interpretations of models of psychological and physical health.

Link: Website

Laure Barillas, University of New Hampshire

Cohort: Continental Philosophy

Laure Barillas is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and French at the University of New Hampshire. She holds a PhD from Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) and taught at the University of Strasbourg for two years before joining UNH. Her current book project explores the concept of powerlessness.

Link: Website

Aliosha Barranco Lopez, Bowdoin College

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

I received my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I work in traditional epistemology, as well as its intersection with philosophy of technology.

I am originally from Mexico City. I love good food and playing board games with friends. My favorite board games are Dominion and Wingspan.

Link: Website

Rowan Bell, University of Missouri

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender


Rowan Bell is a postdoctoral scholar in Philosophy at the University of Missouri, and in the summer of 2023 they will take up a position as Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Genders, Sexualities, & Social Change at the University of Guelph. They work primarily in feminist and trans philosophy, metaethics, and social epistemology.

Link: Website

H. Bondurant, University of Richmond

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

An interdisciplinary philosopher, H specializes in social epistemology with attention to issues of self-knowledge and epistemic injustice. They received their PhD from Duke University and MA from University of Missouri-St. Louis. Their research interests are quite broad and their work often draws from bioethics, virtue theory, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of mind. They are interested in the following questions: How does one construct the image one holds of oneself and how does one know whether one truly reflects it? When should one give more weight to others’ beliefs about oneself instead one’s own beliefs about oneself? H's work focuses on the ways in which people should avoid or resolve that tension and what that tension means for how we should approach feedback about the self.

Link: Website

Mich Ciurria, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender

Mich Ciurria is a queer, gender-variant, disabled philosopher and a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She/they completed her PhD at York University in Toronto in 2014 and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at Washington University-St. Louis and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research interests include moral responsibility, moral psychology, Marxist feminism, critical race theory, and critical disability theory. She is the author of An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility (Routledge, 2019) and a regular contributor to “Biopolitical Philosophy,” the leading blog on critical disability theory.

Link: Website

Catherine Clune-Taylor, Princeton University

Cohort: Bioethics

Catherine Clune-Taylor (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. A feminist science and technology studies scholar, Clune-Taylor takes a critical, interdisciplinary feminist approach to exploring the ways in which science (and other systems of knowledge production), practices, and institutions function together to shape individuals’ possibilities for life and death. Much of her work has focused specifically on the treatment of children with intersex conditions. She has published articles in Hypatia and The American Journal of Public Health, is the author of the chapter “Is Sex Socially Constructed?” in the Routledge Handbook on Feminist Philosophy of Science published in 2020. She is currently working on two book projects: Securing WhiteCis Futures: A Feminist Genealogy and Analytic for the Eugenic Present and Pathologizing Intersex: A Critical Philosophical Analysis.

Link: Website

Mercedes Corredor, Virginia Tech

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender

Mercedes ("Mercy") Corredor is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. She primarily works in ethics and feminist philosophy. She is interested in how moral learning happens at the individual level, and how this interacts with political transformation at the social level.

Link: Website

Haixin Dang, University of Nebraska Omaha

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Haixin Dang is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She has a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Before moving to Omaha, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on social epistemology and philosophy of science.

Link: Website

Megan Dean, Michigan State University

Cohort: Ethics

Megan A. Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Michigan State University. She works in Feminist Philosophy, Bioethics, and Science and Values, as well as 20th-century European Philosophy, especially Foucault and Phenomenology. Her current research is in the area of food ethics, with a specific focus on the ethics of eating.

Link: Website

Jenna Donohue, University of Arkansas/Harvard University

Cohort: Ethics

"I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. My responsibilities include conducting independent research, teaching, and working with the Embedded EthiCS program. In the fall of 2023, I will be joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor.

My research interests include moral and political philosophy, and my current research focuses on moral complicity. I am also interested in ethics and technology, medical ethics, feminist epistemology, and issues of justice wherever they arise. I have side interests in history of modern philosophy (particularly Leibniz) and the philosophy of religion.

I completed my graduate work at UCLA. Before starting graduate school in philosophy, I was a middle school and high school math teacher and studied education at the University of Notre Dame (M.Ed.). Before that, I studied math and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

When I'm not doing philosophy, I like to play ultimate frisbee, stand up paddle board, and play board games. If you ever want to talk Wingspan or Gloomhaven, assume I'm in!"

Link: Website

Celia Edell, University of British Columbia

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender

Celia Edell is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She works in social and political philosophy, ethics, oppression theory, and feminist epistemology. Celia received her PhD from McGill University in 2022. Her doctoral work developed a feminist theory of scapegoating as it functions to maintain oppression. Celia’s current research examines the internet as a shared social space that is rife with public shaming and social exclusion.

Link: Website

Arianna Falbo, Bentley University

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Arianna Falbo is an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Bentley University. Her research is primarily in epistemology, as well as feminist and social philosophy. Her current research projects explore the norms governing rational inquiry, as well as the relationship between inquiry and injustice.

Link: Website

Nicole Fice, Trent University

Cohort: Bioethics

Nicole Fice (she/her) is currently a contract Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University. Her research focuses on issues in feminist philosophy and biomedical ethics, with a specialization in public health ethics.

Link: Website

Kate Finley, Hope College

Cohort: Bioethics

Kate Finley is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hope College (PhD, Notre Dame, 2018) working on topics in philosophy of psychology, psychiatry & cognitive science, applied ethics, and social philosophy.

Link: Website

Amy Flowerree, Texas Tech University

Cohort: Ethics

Amy Flowerree is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University. Her work focuses on the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and metaethics. She is currently working on two projects, one on the ethics of interpretation, the other on the epistemology of narrative.

Link: Website

Allauren Forbes, McMaster University

Cohort: Oppression Theory

My research is at the intersection of feminist philosophy and early modern philosophy. I focus on socio-political relations like custom, friendship, and marriage as a means of epistemic, moral, and political transformation in the works of early modern women philosophers.

Link: Website

Nathifa Greene, Gettysburg College

Cohort: Oppression Theory

Nathifa Greene is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. Her research interests are primarily in social and political philosophy.

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Sahar Heydari Fard, The Ohio State University

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

I am an assistant professor of philosophy at the Ohio State University. My work lies at the intersection of social and behavioral sciences, social and political philosophy, and ethics. Much of my research is concerned with examining the possibility of sustainable change in complex and dynamic social systems and the moral implications of such a possibility

Link: Website

Zoë Johnson King, Harvard University

Cohort: Ethics

Zoë Johnson King is an Assistant Professor at Harvard, prior to which she was an Assistant Prof at USC, a Bersoff Fellow at NYU, a grad student at Michigan, and a high school teacher in South-East London. She works on ethical issues to do with moral motivation, praise, and praiseworthiness, and is particularly interested in how these things accrue for agents with imperfect information and/or under circumstances of injustice.

Link: Website

Susan Kennedy, Santa Clara University

Cohort: Bioethics

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University and my research focuses on bioethics and the ethics of technology. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where I worked with the Embedded EthiCS team to integrate ethical reasoning into the computer science curriculum.

Link: Website

Jennifer Kling, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

Jennifer Kling is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, self- and other-defense, international relations, protest, feminism, and philosophy of race. She is the author of Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism (with Leland Harper, Lexington 2022), The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to War (with Megan Mitchell, Rowman & Littlefield 2021), War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility(Lexington 2019), and numerous articles in academic journals and edited collections. She is the Executive Director of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace.

Link: Website

Allison "Ari" Koslow, UC Irvine

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Ari Koslow is an assistant professor at UC Irvine. She works primarily in philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy. She’s particularly interested in linguistic and conceptual change. Her current project concerns how to represent the ways meanings change over time as they do, and how representational shifts do, or do not, relate to social change.

Link: Website

Tatyana Kostochka, Ashoka University

Cohort: Moral Psychology

Tatyana Kostochka has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University since January 2022. In May 2022, she earned her Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Southern California. Tatyana’s work primarily concerns moral psychology and Buddhist philosophy. She spends a lot of time thinking about moods—what they are, how they relate to other parts of our psychology, what shapes them, etc. She also likes to think about Buddhist philosophy and, specifically, ethics in medieval Japanese Buddhism. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was a visiting researcher at the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. She received her M.A. in philosophy from Northern Illinois University in 2013 and her B.A. in East Asian studies from Brandeis University in 2011.

Link: Website

Casey Landers, Texas State University

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Miami in 2022. My main wheelhouse is in the philosophy of mind, perception, and cognitive science. I also have budding research projects that intersect with technophilosophy and feminist and social philosophy.

Link: Website

Marie-Pier Lemay, University of Pittsburgh

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

Marie-Pier Lemay is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC), where she is affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies Program. Her research in feminist and political philosophy examines and theorizes the difficulties of putting solidarity into practice in contexts of pronounced inequality.

Link: Website

Annette Martín, University of Illinois at Chicago

Cohort: Oppression Theory

Annette Martín is an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is in social philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of race and gender, and focuses on theorizing oppression from an intersectional perspective.

Link: Website

Lucy McDonald, University of Cambridge

Cohort: Ethics

Lucy McDonald is a Research Fellow in philosophy at St John’s College, Cambridge. She works mainly in ethics, philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy, but also draws frequently from psychology, linguistics, and sociology. Her primary research interest is in how our everyday interactions with one another, especially communicative interactions, contribute to the moral and political fabric of our lives. She has published papers on speech acts, flirting, cat-calling, social media ‘likes’, compliments, and shaming, among other topics.

She is currently working on projects about intimacy, online communication, and the relationship between speech and normative powers. She is co-convenor of the interdisciplinary research network, Illuminating Friendship, which explores friendship and intimacy from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Link: Website

Maggie O'Brien, York University

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at York University, Canada. I received my PhD in Philosophy from McMaster University in August 2016. I completed a Masters of Studies in Law at the University of Toronto in August 2017.

Link: Website

Carissa Phillips-Garrett, Loyola Marymount University

Cohort: Moral Psychology

Carissa Phillips-Garrett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. One strand of her research focuses on moral attitudes and practices and their relationship to social virtue, well-being, and self-respect. A second area of interest focuses on the capabilities that enable moral development, and particularly to the role of attention and love.

Link: Website

Jessica Polish

Cohort: Continental Philosophy

I wrote my dissertation on G.W.F Hegel's Encyclopedia system. I frequently teach courses on Kant, Hegel, and classical German philosophy. But my philosophical interests are wide-ranging; I consider myself a generalist in that I prioritize philosophizing about common problems from "scratch," as it were; I do not, however, sacrifice scholarly precision, and I am always under the guidance of other thinkers. I believe philosophers today must be courageous as thinkers and as persons. Philosophy must recollect its power to think universal questions in urgent and original ways, without becoming entangled in the "publish or perish" mentality and without succumbing to the preestablished values of the secondary literature and the publishing industries. Not all philosophy needs to be published and not all philosophers should be professionally acknowledged. Currently, my research focuses on anti-theodical approaches to the problem of evil, including the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza and the philosophy of Simone Weil. In this vein, I am deeply interested in the meaning of incapacity and pain, thus in philosophies of embodiment; specifically, I am interested in how we appear to live in a culture and in an age that has forgotten the need for (possibly violent) sacrifice. I am heavily influenced by, as I also study and teach, Ch'an Buddhist texts; Mesoamerican poetry and codices, especially that of the Aztecs or the Mexica; Vedic hymns; classical Cynicism; and the Stoic philosophies of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. My goals in philosophy are not traditionally professional, but my lifelong dedication to writing and understanding philosophy are authentic.

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Melissa Rees, University of Toronto

Cohort: Bioethics

Melissa Rees received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in October of 2022. Her research in the Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics focuses primarily on medical ontology, personhood, autonomy and consent.

Link: Website

Songyao Ren, The University of Texas at Dallas

Cohort: Moral Psychology

Songyao Ren is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. She works on ethics, moral psychology, and Chinese philosophy.

Link: Website

Melanie Rosen, Trent University

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

Dr. Melanie Rosen takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of philosophy, cognitive science, and dreaming in particular. Her research broadly focuses on philosophy of mind, consciousness, the self and the relevance of our scientific knowledge of the brain and cognition. Her recent work concerns the sense of agency, the self and perception, focusing on how these cognitive features shift during altered states of cognition, and what the dreaming mind can tell us about consciousness. She completed her PhD in Macquarie University, Sydney, was a Carlsberg distinguished postdoctoral research fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, and is currently an assistant professor at Trent University, Canada.

Link: Website

Kate C.S. Schmidt, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Cohort: Moral Psychology

I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. My philosophy research is centered around ethics and epistemic injustice: how can we properly seek out knowledge while treating one another well? My philosophical areas of expertise include ethics, epistemic justice, and moral emotions. I also focus on areas within applied ethics. In particular, I teach and research topics related to medical ethics and computer ethics, and I am always interested in the ethical implications of emerging technologies.

Link: Website

Laura Soter, Duke University

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

Laura is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Philosophy Department at Duke University. Previously, she earned her PhD in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of cognitive science, epistemology, and moral psychology--especially questions concerning mental state control, the ethics of belief, and how relationships impact moral cognition.

Link: Website

Heather Stewart, Oklahoma State University

Cohort: Oppression Theory

Heather Stewart (she/they) is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. Her primary areas of research are within feminist philosophy, applied ethics (especially bioethics and philosophy of medicine, digital ethics and AI), and social and political philosophy of language. She is currently completing a co-authored book manuscript, Microaggressions in Medicine, which is under contract with OUP.

Link: Website

I.M. Sullivan, Arcadia University

Cohort: Philosophy of Gender

My name is I.M. “Immy” Sullivan (they/she), and I am interested in trans and queer experience as contemporary philosophical practice. In pursuing this interest, I draw from trans, queer, and feminist scholarship as well as my training in East Asian philosophical traditions and cross-cultural methodologies.

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Philosophy, History, and Religious Studies at Arcadia University.

When not on campus, I enjoy the simpler liberatory practices of trail running and reading contemporary speculative fiction.

Link: Website

Jennifer Szende, Toronto Metropolitan University

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

Jennifer Szende completed her PhD at Queen’s University, Canada in political philosophy, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique at l’Université de Montréal, and at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her work has appeared in Journal of Global Ethics, Journal of International Political Theory, the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Feminism, Just Food: Philosophy, Justice and Food edited by J. M. Dieterle, and Food, Environment, and Climate Change edited by Gilson and Kenehan. Her recent work brings the insights of feminist theory and relational autonomy to bear on questions in environmental political theory and international relations.

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Bailey Thomas, Dartmouth College

Cohort: Oppression Theory

Bailey Thomas is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy while on research leave from the University of Louisville where they are an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Much of their research focuses on bridging the gaps between epistemic, ethical, and political spheres through an argument for the integration of ethical and political frameworks into social epistemology. Some of their other long-term projects include examining the intellectual components of the Radical Black Tradition and Black American feminism. Their current manuscript, tentatively titled Insidious Ignorance: Race, Power, and the Weaponization of Knowledge, focuses on examining a phenomenon they have termed as “insidious ignorance”. They are also conducting research for their second book project which will focus on the politics and ethics of Black American frameworks of care and caring. They are also the founder and director of the Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory (https://roundtableforblackfeminismandwomanism.weebly.com).

Link: Website

Morgan Thompson, Bielefeld Universität

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Morgan Thompson is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld Universität. In Fall 2023, she will begin a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University. Her work is in philosophy of science and feminist philosophy. Her current research concerns the measurement of socially relevant concepts, such as racial discrimination. Previously her work focused on the demographics of philosophy.

Link: Website

Desiree Valentine, Marquette University

Cohort: Bioethics

Desiree Valentine is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. Her research lies at the intersection of feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, critical disability theory, and bioethics. Her current projects focus on the historical and conceptual relation between processes of racialization and disablement in healthcare, law, reproduction, and the justice system. She has published in Critical Philosophy of Race, The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, and Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology.

Link: Website

Anna Vaughn, Sacred Heart University

Cohort: Philosophy of Mind

Anna Vaughn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Her research centers on 17th century epistemology and metaphysics, specifically questions concerning perception in the philosophies of Locke and Masham. She is also interested in the intersection of beliefs in magic and witchcraft during the development of a more recognizably modern scientific worldview during the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Link: Website

Christine Wieseler, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Cohort: Continental Philosophy

Christine Wieseler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is an advisory board member for Philosophy in a Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) and associate editor for The Journal of Philosophy of Disability. Her areas of specialization are biomedical ethics, feminist philosophy, Continental philosophy, and philosophy of disability. She has published numerous articles at the intersection of these areas in journals including Hypatia, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy, and Social Philosophy Today. Joel Michael Reynolds and Wieseler co-edited The Disability Bioethics Reader. She has taught courses including feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of disability, bioethics, ethical theory, applied ethics, and existentialism. Information on her research and teaching is available at christinewieseler.com.

Link: Website

Amelia Wirts, University of Washington, Seattle

Cohort: Political and Legal Philosophy

Amelia M. Wirts is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. Amelia's areas of specialization are philosophy of law and social and political philosophy, and she also works in feminism and philosophy of race. Specifically, Amelia's work focuses that the criminal legal system is implicated in oppression along racial, class, gender, and other lines. Her current focus is whether punishment is justified when there are significant issues of background injustice.


Amelia is also a graduate of Boston College Law School (2017) and a member of the Massachusetts bar (2018). She pursued her law degree as a part of a dual degree program in philosophy and law at Boston College, where she focused on civil rights and anti-discrimination law. She also spent 2017-2018 clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Link: Website

Kino Zhao, Simon Fraser University

Cohort: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

I am an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University Department of Philosophy. My research is in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences. I am interested in both philosophically-informed-science and scientifically-informed-philosophy. Basically, my projects will try to do one of two things: 1) identify a methodological concern discussed by social scientists and see if providing a philosophical analysis can help the dialogue make progress, or 2) identify a philosophical thesis that seems to involve factual claims about the social world and ask whether the social sciences are equipped to supply them.

Link: Website

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