Harvard University Department of Philosophy: Graduate Students

Diana Acosta Navas

dacostanavas@fas

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

Research Interests: Metaethics, Ancient Philosophy (particularly Aristotle)

Javier came to Harvard directly after receiving his B.A. from Carleton College in 2011. Outside of his philosophic studies, Javier enjoys doodling in the margins of his notes, obsessively following the Minnesota Twins, and procrastinating on his philosophic studies, often simultaneously.

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

Noel Dominguez

ndominguez@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.

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

Chandler Hatch

chatch@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: Philosophy of Law, Moral Philosophy

Michael Kenneally joined Harvard's Graduate Program in Philosophy in 2006. His dissertation examines natural rights–based and consequentialist arguments for intellectual property. He received his A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lauren Kopajtic

lkopajtic@fas

Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Lauren Kopajtic received her BA from UCONN in English Literature and her first MA from St. John's College in Annapolis. After taking two years to work as a paralegal in New York, she returned to the good life and pursued an MA in philosophy from Simon Fraser University. Lauren joined Harvard's department in 2011. She lives in Providence, RI with her husband and their cat and spends her free time swimming and watching procedural crime dramas.

Douglas Kremm

kremm@fas

Research Interests: Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

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 (and, more recently, in questions about what those questions mean).

Allison Kuklok

kuklok@fas

Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, Metaphysics

Enoch Lambert

lambert4@fas

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology and Biology

Enoch grew up in Ithaca, New York and chose philosophy not only because he loves it but because it gives him an excuse not to narrow down all his other interests ("X sounds interesting. I think I'll study that for a while and justify it by saying I'm doing the philosophy of X"). He has a blog about some of these interests called phunk 'n' philosophy.

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, Feminist Philosophy

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

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.

Patricia Marechal

marechal@fas

Emily McWilliams

emcwill@fas

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Feminist Philosophy

Elizabeth Miller

elmiller@fas

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

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 practical reason, moral and political philosophy, as well as philosophy and literature. Outside academia, I am a member of "Breaking the Silence," an organization of Israeli veterans that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers. Even further outside academia I write stories in Hebrew, my native tongue.

Craig Nishimoto

cnishim@fas

Eylem Özaltun

ozaltun@fas

After a decade of therapy Eylem has finally stopped blaming her mother for naming her “action”. She now manages her obsession for action and self-consciousness tolerably well and does not expect to be cured.

Nataliya Palatnik

palatnik@fas

Alex Prescott-Couch

prescott@fas

Alexander Prescott-Couch graduated from Columbia University in 2005 with a BA in philosophy and history. Before coming to Harvard, he studied at the Humboldt Universität on a DAAD fellowship and then worked in Berlin for two years as a translator, journalist, and consultant. His research focuses on political philosophy and philosophy of science (especially social science), and he also has interests in ethics, metaphysics, and German philosophy. He is currently writing a dissertation concerning the epistemic and practical goals of science and the relationship between the understanding provided by scientific explanation and that provided by humanistic forms of social inquiry, such as history.

Michael Rabenberg

mrabenberg@fas

Research Interests: Ethics, Metaphysics

Michael Rabenberg graduated from Kenyon College in 2010 and joined Harvard's Ph.D. program in philosophy in 2011. His interests include ethics, metaphysics, 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, Feminist Philosophy

Wendy grew up 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 finish up her law degree at Stanford, after which she will spend a year clerking for Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami, Florida. She will return to Harvard in 2014.

Richard Sanchez

rsanchez@fas

Research Interests: Logic, History of Philosophy, Normativity

Richard joined the department in 2010. He's interested in logic, the history of philosophy, and the possibility of global normative nihilism.

Paul Schofield

pschof@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

Research Interests: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy

I received my B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2002 in Economics and Mathematics. After getting an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 2005, I worked for several years before returning to school to study philosophy. In 2011, I graduated from Tufts University with an M.A. in Philosophy and am now pursuing a J.D./Ph.D.

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).

Kate Vredenburgh

kvredenburgh@fas