Recently in CUSP Category
Our inaugural workshop for the CUSP program was a great success. We had six excellent students from five different colleges and universities. To see a brief description of them and an indication of their interests, see here.
After a morning workshop during which we discussed the logistics of applying to graduate school, the life of the graduate student and the nature of a professional life in philosophy, we broke for lunch.
The pictures below are from the departmental lunch we had on April 28th:
Left to Right: Nancy Tuana, Latoya Gardner, Cameron Bell, Jonathan Marks, Christopher Long, Nathalie Nya, Melanie Shepherd, Stephanie Jenkins, Adrian Naranjo, Shannon Sullivan, John Christman and Ayesha Abdullah
Shannon and Ayesha talking at lunch.
Cameron, Manny and Vincent
Asad talking to Chris and John
Cameron and Chris
On Sunday, April 27th, we will welcome the first group of participants in our annual Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP) program. This program involves bringing a group of promising prospective graduate students in philosophy from traditionally underrepresented groups (such as, African Americans, Chicano/as and Latino/as, Native Americans, Asian Americans) to campus for a two day workshop.
During their visit, students will be exposed to the life of philosophy in the department and to the discipline of philosophy more broadly by attending workshops and lectures, speaking with graduate students and faculty, and investigating what it means to pursue a graduate degree in philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. For more information, including instructions about how to nominate or be nominated for CUSP 2009, see the graduate program website here:
http://philosophy.la.psu.edu/graduate/cusp.shtml
We are very happy to welcome the following students to CUSP 2008:
Ayesha Abdullah is a junior in Philosophy at Trinity College interested in the history of philosophy and feminism.
Menelio Alvarez is a senior at SUNY Stony Brook interested in Phenomenology, Existentialism and Philosophy of Literature.
Cameron Bell graduated from the Richard Stockton College of NJ where he double majored in French and Philosophy. He is interested in American Pragmatism, particularly Dewey, Rorty and West, Critical Theory (Marcuse), Sartre, 20th century continental philosophy and the philosophy of language.
Latoya Gardner is currently is a first-year MA student in the UNC Charlotte Philosophy Department's Masters of Ethics and Applied Philosophy program. She received her BA in Political Science and Philosophy from UNC Charlotte in December 2003. She describes her philosophical interests as ethics, moral philosophy, Nietzsche, and social/political philosophy.
Asad Naqvi is the president of the Undergraduate Philosophy Club at SUNY Stony Brook. His interests include the history of philosophy, ontology and aesthetics, 19th century philosophy, phenomenology and thinkers like Nietzsche, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Foucault and Irigaray.
Adrian Naranjo is currently a senior at Florida International University, majoring in both Philosophy and English. His interests include the history of philosophy, Heidegger, Tragedy, Aristotle, Nietzsche.
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