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.
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: Spring 2026: MW 11-12
Research Interests: Environmental philosophy, ecofeminism (Plumwood), American pragmatism (Dewey), virtue ethics, philosophy of education
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
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
Joana Diaz
Philosophy
Email: joanadia@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 26: Tuesdays from 11:30-13:30 in Susan Campbell Hall 221
Research Interests: Social & political philosophy, critical philosophy of race, decolonial thought/feminisms,
Latin American & Caribbean philosophy, critical theory, phenomenology (violence/trauma/the body)
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, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: adubrule@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2026: 11-1 pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Film, Political Theory
Coco Gagnet
Philosophy
Email: cgagnet@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Decoloniality, and Feminist Hospitality.
Diego Gordon Romero
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: dgo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM or by appointment.
Research Interests: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, History of Philosophy
Mitchell Hirai
Philosophy
Email: mhirai@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Existentialism (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard), Environmental Ethics, Post Modernism
Zoey Hock
Philosophy
Email: zhock@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Feminist philosophy (Amia Srinivasan, Kate Manne. Simone de Beauvoir), the sex industry, logic, ancient philosophy, ethics
Chris Johnson
PhD Student
Philosophy
Email: chrisjoh@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Fridays 12:00-2:00 p.m. in 11C SCH
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Rugile Kasperiunaite
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: rkasperi@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 PM
Research Interests: Language, Logic, Philosophy of Technology, Pre-Qin Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy