We have had a very successful recruiting year for the graduate program here at Penn State. Next year we will welcome eleven students into the program:
Joe Balay joins us from Seattle University. He holds a BA in philosophy and an MA in english. His interests include continental philosophy, semiotics, and American pragmatism."
Hannah Beach joins us from Boston via Connecticut after earning her Bachelor's from Colby College in Maine. She is interested in continental philosophy, especially phenomenology, Ancient philosophy, Eastern philosophy, and dinosaurs.
Deniz Durmuş comes to us from Boğaziçi University Philosophy Department where she completed her BA and MA. Her interests include continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist philosophy and gender theory.
Alastair Goff studied at the University of Sydney, Australia. Most of his interests touch on the philosophy of art and aesthetics to some degree, but he enjoys Continental philosophy in general and also dabbles in Plato from time to time.
Aaron Krempa, a Pennsylvania native, has a B.A. in philosophy and Greek from Vassar College, an M.A. from St. John's College (MD), and is in the process of completing an M.A. in philosophy and art at Stony Brook University. His primary interests include the intersection of aesthetics and ontology, continental philosophy, ancient philosophy, and ethics.
Janelle Lattimore comes to us from Douglass College at Rutgers University where she completed a her BA in philosophy with minors in political science and religion. Her interests include political philosophy, epistemology and Ancient Greek philosophy.
Shaeeda Mensah comes to us from Spelman College where she completed her BA in Sociology with minors in philosophy and women's studies. It is her goal to bridge together the fields of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race in order to establish a field known as the Philosophy of race and gender.
John Nale comes from George Washington University by way of Memphis. His research interests include Social Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, and Critical Race Theory
Carolyn O'mara is coming from the University of Memphis. Her interests include feminist theory, gender studies, german idealism, and 20th Century French philosophy.
Camisha Russell comes to us from the University of Memphis. Her interests include ethics, social political philosophy and feminism. She works on critical race theory and African American philosophy and is specifically interested in the effects of race in issues surrounding reproductive technology.
Cori Wong earned her bachelors in philosophy at Colorado State University. Her interests are in feminist theory, social and political philosophy, and epistemology with an emphasis on knowledge of and through bodies, epistemic responsibility, and the influences of ignorance and arrogance.
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