Philosophy GE and Graduate Student
Melody Allison
PhD Student, TA, Environmental Justice Fellow
Graduate Studies Committee
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: melodya@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays from 3-4 pm Columbia Hall 254A
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Worldviews and Paradigm Shifts, Human-Nature Relationships, the Degrowth Movement, and Food Systems.
Max Backderf
M.A.
Philosophy
Email: mbackder@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00pm
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Science, Feminist Epistemology
Abbas Bagwala
PhD
GE and Promising Scholar
Philosophy
Email: abagwala@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: 1000 - 1200 on Fridays
Research Interests: philosophy of machine learning, philosophy of science, epistemology, political philosophy, neopragmatism and pragmatism
Mackenzie Brinn
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: mbrinn@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall Term: Wednesdays 2:30-4:30pm in SCH 221
Research Interests: Philosophy of Technology (i.e., AI, algorithms, and social media), Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy and Queer Studies, Foucault, and Marcuse.
Audrey Brown
PhD
GE
Philosophy
Email: asaltar2@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Thursdays from 12-3 pm
Research Interests: History of philosophy, American philosophy, Religious Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy
Irie Browning
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: irieb@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Virtue ethics, American Pragmatism (especially John Dewey), Philosophy of Education
Brooke Burns
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: bburns8@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 and by appointment
Research Interests: Feminist philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Genealogy (esp. Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams)
Gonzalo Bustamante-Moya
Ph.D. & GE
Managing Editor Hypatia Reviews Online | Undergraduate Advisor
Philosophy
Email: gonzalob@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 11:30-13:30 at 11B Susan Campbell Hall or by appointment
Research Interests: Political and Social Philosophy (esp. critiques of capitalism), Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein), German Idealism, Critical Theory
Asher Caplan
PhD Candidate
Philosophy
Email: acaplan@uoregon.edu
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm
Research Interests: Philosophy of Technology, Pragmatism, Applied Ethics (esp. data ethics, bioethics, AI ethics)
Massimo Cisternino
Ph.D.
GE
Philosophy
Email: mcistern@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays from 10:30am-12:30pm
Research Interests: History of Philosophy, American and Continental Philosophies, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Experience, Political Philosophy
Hunter Clark
MA
Philosophy
Email: huntercl@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics; Logic; Epistemology; Metaethics; Philosophy of Science
Kit Connor
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: kconnor@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Email only
Research Interests: applied feminism, critical phenomenology, philosophy of language, trauma studies, disability theories
Joseph Dillabough
Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: jdillabo@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: 1:00-2:00 on Monday & Wednesday.
Research Interests: American Philosophy & Pragmatism (esp. Charles S. Peirce & Josiah Royce); Phenomenology, Categories, Semiotics, Metaphysics, & History of Philosophy.
Eris Donohue
MA
Philosophy
Email: erisd@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall, Room 11
Office Hours: MON 1:30-3:30
Research Interests: Trans Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, 20th-21st Century Continental Thought (esp. Poststructuralism), Nietzsche, Aesthetics
Amanda Dubrule
Ph.D. Student
GE
Philosophy
Email: adubrule@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2024: Mondays 1-2:50 PM
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Film, Political Theory
Puja Ghosh
ABD
GE & Promising Scholar
Philosophy
Email: pghosh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9591
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Winter 2024: 3:20-5:20PM
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; South Asian Marxism & Critical Caste Studies; Critical Phenomenology; Political Decolonial Ecologies; Feminist Philosophy & Queer Studies; Indian Philosophical Traditions; De/Postcolonial Thought
Diego Gordon Romero
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: dgo@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, History of Philosophy