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Name: Abi Anima
Degree: B.A. Philosophy and Microbiology, Cornell University
Specialization: Ethics of Parenting, Ethics, Moral Philosophy
Advisor: Anja Karnein
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Name: J. Spencer Atkins
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Tennessee, Martin
Specialization: Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Social Epistemology
Competence: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics
Dissertation: "Moral Encroachment as Interest-Dependent Contextualism: New Arguments in the New Ethics of Belief"
Advisor: Christopher Morgan-Knapp
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Name: Spencer Beaudette
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, San Francisco State University; B.A. Math and Philosophy, University of Washington
Specialization: Liberal and Democratic Political Philosophy, International Justice, Migration, Normative Theory
Competence: Ethical and Metaethical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy
Advisor: Anthony Reeves
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Name: Jason Bond
Degree: B.A. Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Specialization: Ethics, Genocide and Perpetrator Studies
Competence: Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (19th Century), Buddhist Philosophy, Environmental Ethics
Advisor: Max Pensky

Name: Cullin Brown
Degree: B.A. Philosophy and Physics, Minor in German, Case Western Reserve University
Specialization: Ethics, Metaethics
Competence: Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
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Name: T.J. Buttgereit
Degree: B.A. Binghamton University in History and Philosophy, Politics, and Law
Specialization: Ethics, Disability Studies, Social Philosophy
Advisor: Lisa Tessman

Name: Kanika Chawla
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India; B.A. English, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Specialization: Buddhist philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology.
Competence: Existentialism, Phenomenology and Ethics.
Advisor: Charles Goodman
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Name: Zih-Syuan Chiu
Degree: M.A. in Philosophy, National Taiwan University; B.A. in Philosophy, National Taiwan University
Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century German Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology
Advisor: Mateo Duque
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Name: Alexander Christen
Degree: B.A. Philosophy, Politics and Law; Political Science, Binghamton University
Specialization: Ethical Theory, Metaethics, Political Philosophy
Competence: Consequentialism, Analytic Philosophy
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
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Name: Tyler Cosmer
Degree: M.S. Bioethics, Columbia University, B.A. Economics, Boston College
Specialization: Kant, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Theory
Competence: Ethics, History of Western Philosophy, Aesthetics
Advisor: Melissa Zinkin
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Name: Andrey Darovskikh
Degree: M.A. Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, Central European University; M.A. Philosophy, Saint-Petersburg State University; B.A. History, Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts
Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Philosophy of Biology
Competence: Modern Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics
Advisor: Anthony Preus
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Name: Ariadne Dubus
Degree: M.A. Brandeis University; B.A. Philosophy, Minor in English, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Competence: Feminist Ethics, Oppression Studies, Existentialism
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
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Name: Scott Gordon
Degree: B.A., The College of Wooster; M.A., Binghamton University
Specialization: Continental Philosophy (19th and 20th Century), Buddhist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Competence: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Metaethics, Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: John Gudenzi
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, King's College London; B.A. English Literature and Philosophy, University of Southern California
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: Jonathan P. Hagofsky
Degree: M.A. Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton University; B.A. Philosophy, Classics, English, Bucknell University
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: Nadia Haroun Mahdavi
Degree: BA History/ Pre-Law, Philosophy (Marywood University)
Interest: Social and Ethical Philosophy
Competence: Bioethics
Advisor: Rebecca Harrison
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Name: Jeffrey Hastings
Degree: M.A. Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton University; B.A. Philosophy, DePaul University
Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory
Competence: Analytic Ethics, History of Philosophy
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: Eric Janec
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, UPenn; B.A. Philosophy, UPenn; M.S. Library Science, Drexel University
Specialization: Social-Political Philosophy
Competence: Ethics, History of Early Modern Philosophy
Advisor: Anthony Reeves
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Name: Mert Karaca
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, Georgia State University; B.A. Philosophy, Middle East Technical University; B.S. Sociology (Minor in Political Science), Middle East Technical University
Specialization: Critiques of Liberalism; Marxist Political Economy
Competence: Social Epistemology; Applied Ethics; Critical Pedagogy
Advisor: Rebecca Harrison
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Name: Robert A. Kippes
Degree: M.A. Boston College; B.A. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; A.S. Volunteer State Community College
Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy; Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Competence: Continental Philosophy; Ethics; Ancient Greek Philosophy
Advisor: Mattias Iser
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Name: Nick Kreuder
Degree: M.A. Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton University; B.A. SUNY Geneseo
Specialization: Normative and Applied Ethics
Advisor: Christopher Morgan-Knapp
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Name: James C. Lethbridge
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, University of Toledo; B.A. Philosophy, Minor in History, Bloomfield College; A.A. Liberal Arts, Sussex County Community College
Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy
Competence: Ethics, American Philosophy, American Intellectual History, Philosophy of Religion
Advisor: Mattias Iser
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Name: Vincent Li
Degree: M.A. Philosophy University of Georgia; B.A. Philosophy University of Georgia
Specialization: Political Philosophy, Poststructuralist Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: Aakanksha Mansukhani
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, Manipal Centre for Humanities (MCH), Manipal, India; B.A. Political Science, Minor in International Relations, and Law, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA), Pune, India
Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy; Continental Philosophy (19th and 20th Century)
Competence: Ethics, History of Western Philosophy, Modern Indian Political Thought, Asian Philosophy
Advisor: Robert Guay
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Name: Adam Renner
Degree: M.A. Ancient History, Newcastle University; M.A. Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs, American University; B.A. History, Philosophy, Classics, Anderson University
Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy
Competence: Political Economy, Theories of Violence
Advisor: Anthony Reeves
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Name: Madeleine Taylor
Degree: B.A. Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Minor in French, Drew University
Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Ethics
Advisor: Lisa Tessman
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Name: Andrew Towers
Degree: M.A. Philosophy, Gonzaga University; B.A. Philosophy, minor in Religious Studies, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
Specialization: Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Consciousness, Comparative Philosophy
Competence: Ethics, Phenomenology, Pragmatism
Advisor: Charles Goodman
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