Harvard University Department of Philosophy: Graduate Students

Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Aesthetics

Olivia received her BA from Middlebury College (2007) and her B.Phil from Oxford (2009). She's interested in the ties between virtue and knowledge, and between ethics and aesthetics. She is only mildly ashamed of her passion for mystery novels of dubious literary merit.

Sharon Berry

seberry@fas

Research Interests: Philosophy of mathematics, Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of language

Sharon Berry double majored in philosophy and mathematics at Columbia. She's interested in philosophy of mathematics and logic, the epistemology of the a priori, and related issues in philosophy of language (e.g. analyticity and indeterminacy arguments). Her thesis proposes a naturalistic solution to the access problem. For fun, she collects Nabokov trivia, writes incredibly boring computer games, dabbles in recursion theory, and gets into arguments in areas of philosophy where she doesn't know the literature

James Bondarchuk

jfbondar@fas

James received his B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 2005. After a brief sojourn into the world of criminal defense law, he decided on a more lucrative career, enrolling in the M.A. program in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he finished his degree in 2009. His primary interests outside of philosophy include free food, thrash metal, and caffeine.

Austin Booth

agbooth@fas

Research Interests: Philosophy of biology

A proud Salt Lake City native, Austin received both a B.S. and an M.S. in philosophy from The University of Utah. He came to Harvard in 2007. Austin's main research area is the philosophy of biology, with a particular focus on issues surrounding the individuation of biological entities.

Javier Caride

jcaride@fas

Colin Chamberlain

cwchamb@fas

Colin Chamberlain is writing a dissertation about the way Malebranche and other Cartesians struggle with the various problems of embodiment bequeathed to them by Descartes. He is spending the year at Notre Dame, as an Early Modern Fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Religion.

Nicolas Cornell

cornell@fas

Research Interests: Normative ethics, Rights theory, Philosophy & law, Political philosophy

Originally from Maine, Nico graduated from Harvard College in 2004. His research interests include normative ethics, rights theory, philosophy and law, and political philosophy. He is concurrently pursuing a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lauren Davidson

ldavidson@fas

Byron Davies

bmdavies@fas

Ryan Davis

ryandavis@fas

Tom Fehse

tfehse@fas

Patricio Fernandez

pfernand@fas

Jeremy Fix

jdfix@fas

Jeremy David Fix is most prominently known for his seminal contributions to underground hip-hop and R&B culture under the pseudonym Boyoncé. Now, he works in practical philosophy, concentrating on the nature of self-consciousness and its importance for an account of human intentional action. A highly erratic and idiosyncratic man, he plays his enemies like a game of chess.

Nathan Foell

nfoell@fas

Johann Frick

jfrick@fas

Research Interests: Normative & applied ethics, Political philosophy

Johann Frick joined Harvard's Philosophy Department in 2008, after five years of studies at the University of Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 2005; BPhil in Philosophy, 2008) and one year of academic tourism at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His primary interests are in normative and applied ethics and political philosophy. In his spare time, Johann is an avid cinephile and news junkie, and wishes that graduate life would leave him a little more time for his cello.

Marc Gasser

mgasser@fas

Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Math, Logic

Micha Glaeser

mglaeser@fas

Paul Julian

pjulian@fas

Research Interests: Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Psychology

Paul grew up in Nashville and received his B.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Some people find his lack of a strong Southern accent to be a kind of moral failing. Paul's current philosophical interests revolve around questions about normativity and personhood. Outside of philosophy, he enjoys climbing rocks, watching movies, and traveling to faraway places. He is also a big fan of waxed cotton.

Michael Kenneally

mkenneal@fas

Research Interests: History of philosophy, Philosophy of law, Ethics, Philosophy of action

Michael Kenneally joined Harvard's Graduate Program in Philosophy in 2006, having received his A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University earlier that year. His primary interests are in the history of philosophy, the philosophy of law, ethics and the philosophy of action.

Lauren Kopajtic

lkopajtic@fas

Douglas Kremm

kremm@fas

Research Interests: Ethics

Doug joined the department in 2010 after receiving his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. He's interested in questions about what we ought to do and why we ought to do it.

Allison Kuklok

kuklok@fas

Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, Kant, Metaphysics

Adrian Kwek

kwek@fas

Enoch Lambert

lambert4@fas

David Langlois

dlangl@fas

Research Interests: Ethics, Practical reasoning, Normativity

Dave received his BA (2005) and MA (2006) from Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He moved to the US and joined the Harvard grad program in 2007. His research interests include ethics, practical reason, and normativity in general. Beyond philosophy, he is interested in vampires, romance, hand balancing, porches and being classy.

Céline Leboeuf

leboeuf@fas

Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, 20th century French and German philosophy

Céline has had the fate of being in love with metaphysics, although only rarely can she boast of any favors from her.

Jon Litland

jlitland@fas

Paul Marcucilli

paulmarcucilli@fas

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Normativity

Paul received his B.A in philosophy and political science from Tufts University. He joined the department in 2011. His personal interests include flute-playing, Twilight Zone-watching, and Jon Arbuckle.

Emily McWilliams

emcwill@fas

Elizabeth Miller

elmiller@fas

Oded Na'aman

onaaman@fas

Research Interests: Normativity, Political philosophy, Moral psychology

I received my BA in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007) and joined the Harvard Philosophy Department in 2008. I focus on moral and political philosophy, as well as moral psychology and philosophy of literature. I have written (but not published) on the conditions for social and political cooperation, political authority, partiality, the political significance of soldiers, and on military rule and its vices. Outside academia, I am an active member of "Breaking the Silence," an organization of Israeli veterans that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers. Even further outside academia, I write prose in Hebrew, my native tongue.

Craig Nishimoto

cnishim@fas

Eylem Özaltun

ozaltun@fas

Nataliya Palatnik

palatnik@fas

Alex Prescott-Couch

prescott@fas

Michael Rabenberg

mrabenberg@fas

Research Interests: Normative & applied ethics; History of Philosophy, Metaphysics

Michael Rabenberg graduated from Kenyon College in 2010 and joined the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Harvard University in 2011. His interests include normative and applied ethics, the history of philosophy (especially the history of political philosophy), metaphysics, Paradise Lost, the St. Louis Cardinals, and bacon cheeseburgers.

Shantia Rahimian

rahimian@fas

Ronni Sadovsky

sadovsky@fas

Research Interests: Moral philosophy, Political philosophy, Critical theories of race & gender.

Ronni Sadovsky grew up in St. Louis, and studied philosophy and linguistics at Swarthmore. She's interested in non-ideal theories in political and moral philosophy, and particularly in moral issues connected with ideology and self-deception. She's now studying philosophy and law as a JD/PhD student, so she'll be over at Harvard Law until 2014.

Wendy Salkin

salkin@fas

Research Interests: Social & political philosophy, Philosophy of law, History of philosophy, Philosophy & literature

Wendy was born and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey. In 2007, she graduated from New York University, where she studied philosophy and Africana studies. She is currently taking a leave of absence from the department to pursue a law degree at Stanford. She will return in 2013.

Richard Sanchez

rsanchez@fas

Research Interests: Logic

Richard joined the department in 2010. He's interested in logic. He's also interested in other things.

Paul Schofield

pschofield@fas

Research Interests: Moral & political philosophy, Action theory, Personal identity

Paul Schofield took his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame Program of Liberal Studies, and his M.A. from Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests are moral and political philosophy, action theory, and personal identity.

Jiewuh Song

song5@fas

Zeynep Soysal

soysal@fas

Research Interests: Logic, Philosophy of mathematics, Metaphysics

Zeynep joined the department in 2010 after receiving her B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Cornell University. She is mainly interested in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics.

William Tadros

tadros@fas

Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc

atarasen@fas

Research Interests: Meta-ethics, Philosophical psychology, Philosophy of action

Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc hails from around Chicago. In 2008, he received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His philosophical interests are mostly concentrated in meta-ethics, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of action -- with a particular emphasis on the methodological issues in these areas. Outside of philosophy, Aleksy has personal interests as well (including poetry, dogs, cocktails, and contemporary indie).