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Current Graduate Students

Name	Contact Information	Area(s) of Specialization	Area(s) of Competence
Cristina Carrillo Cañas	CristinaCarrillo2014@u.northwestern.edu	Ancient Philosophy (esp. Aristotle)	Moral and Political Philosophy
Ezra Cook	ezra.cook@u.northwestern.edu Personal Site	Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic	Formal Semantics, Pragmatics
Raff Donelson	rcd@u.northwestern.edu	Ethics	Philosophy of Action, Jurisprudence, 20th Century French philosophy
Evan Dutmer	Evandutmer2017@u.northwestern.edu	Ancient Philosophy	Moral and Political Philosophy
Chelsea Egbert	c6e3u6@u.northwestern.edu	Socio-political, ethics, Marx	Ethics and moral philosophy
Amy Floweree	AmyFlowerree2011@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology	Normativity, Metaethics, History of Philosophy
Deborah Goldgaber	goldd@u.northwestern.edu	Derrida, French Philosophy	Phenomenology, Husserl, Structuralism, History of Philosophy
Lee Goldsmith	leegoldsmith2012@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae	Heidegger, Philosophy of Language	Kant, Habermas, and Ancient Philosophy
Derek Green	DerekGreen2014@u.northwestern.edu	Intentionality, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Kant & German Idealism
Marcus Hines	marcushines2016@u.northwestern.edu	Ancient Philosophy	German Philosophy
David Johnson	davidjohnson2013@u.northwestern.edu	Aesthetics, Critical Theory	20th Century Continental Philosophy
Eric Jonas	EricJonas2016@u.northwestern.edu	20th Century Continental Philosophy, Animal Studies	Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Gender Theory
Morganna Lambeth	MorgannaLambeth2016@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae	19th and 20th Century, Continental Philosophy	Kant, Ethics
Nicholas Leonard	NicholasLeonard2017@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind	Metaphysics
Lauren Leydon-Hardy	lj.leydonhardy@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology, Philosophy of Language	Philosophy of Logic, Metaethics
Oksana Maksymchuk	o-maksymchuk@u.northwestern.edu	Ancient Philosophy	Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Ethics
Rebecca Mason	remason@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae \| Personal Site	Philosophy of Language, Feminism	Epistemology
Seth Mayer	sethmayer2014@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae \| Personal Site	Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy	History of German Philosophy, Metaethics, and Critical Theory
Kurt Mertel	kurtmertel2015@u.northwestern.edu	20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy	Philosophy of Art
Matthew Mullins	m-mullins@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae \| Personal Site	Epistemology	Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science, and Early Modern
Hung Nguyen	nguyentrh@u.northwestern.edu	Ancient Philosophy (Plato & Socrates)	Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Epistemology, and Ethics
Carlos Pereira Di Salvo	pereira.disalvo@u.northwestern.edu Personal Site	Social and Political Philosophy	German Philosophy, Critical Theory, Modern Philosophy, and Logic
Jared Peterson	JaredPeterson2015@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology	Metaphysics, Ethics
Emilie Prattico	emilieprattico@u.northwestern.edu	Political Philosophy, Critical Theory	Ethics, Applied Ethics
Adam Ring	a-ring@northwestern.edu	Heidegger, German Philosophy	History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
Daniel Skibra	Danielskibra2016@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology, Philosophy of Language	Metaphysics, Logic
Mark Thomson	Markthomson2017@u.northwestern.edu	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind	Epistemology
Daniel Tovar	danieltovar2008@u.northwestern.edu Personal Site	Ancient (Aristotle & Plato)	Ethics
Daniel Trujillo	dbtrujillo@u.northwestern.edu	Critical Theory (esp. Habermas and Fraser), Normativity and Critique, and Foucault	Pragmatism (esp. Dewey, James, and Rorty), Kant
Nathan Weston	nathanweston2012@u.northwestern.edu	Epistemology, Philosophy of Language	Metaphysics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Religion
Tyler Zimmer	tyler.zimmer@u.northwestern.edu	Social and Political Philosophy	Philosophy of Social Science, Ethics, Aesthetics

Affiliated Graduate Students

Name	Contact Information	Department	Area(s) of Specialization	Area(s) of Competence
Virgil Brower	virgil@u.northwestern.edu Curriculum Vitae	Comparative Literary Studies	Kierkegaard, Derrida, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, L'écriture féminine, Political Theology	Logic, Bioethics, Comparative Religions, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Religion, Literary Theory & Criticism
Ozge Kocak	aysekocak2008@u.northwestern.edu	Comparative Literary Studies	German Idealism	Phenomenology, Romanticism, Literary Theory, History of Philosophy

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Virgil Brower

virgil@u.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Comparative Literary Studies

Kierkegaard, Derrida, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, L'écriture féminine, Political Theology

Logic, Bioethics, Comparative Religions, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Religion, Literary Theory & Criticism

Ozge Kocak

aysekocak2008@u.northwestern.edu

Comparative Literary Studies

German Idealism

Phenomenology, Romanticism, Literary Theory, History of Philosophy

Visiting Pre-Doctoral Students

Name	Contact Information	Home Institution	Area(s) of Specialization	Area(s) of Competence
Casey Johnson	johnson.caseyr@gmail.com	University of Connecticut	Philosophy of Language	Epistemology
Louise Zhang	xiaoming.zhang@northwestern.edu	Wuhan University of China	Kant, Ethics	Chinese and western comparative philosophy, Buddhism, political and religious theories