Zachary Alonso

MA program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Socrates; Plato; Faith, love, morality, and free will in Christianity; Epistemology

Email address: zalonso@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, University of South Florida

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Joel Alvarez

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Medieval (Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, and Molina) and Modern Philosophy (Descartes and Leibniz), Native American Philosophy, Metaphysics (God's attributes and free will)

Email address: joelalvarez@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of South Florida

BA in Philosophy, Brooklyn College

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Christopher Barber

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Phenomenology & Existentialism, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics

Email address: cmbarber1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, San Jose State University

BA in Philosophy, San Jose State University

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Tomás Bardi

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy; Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, Foucault

Email address: bardi1@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Florida State University

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Brian "BB" Bieganski

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, Philosophy of Science, Adorno

Email address: bbieganski@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Kent State University

BS in Psychology, Philosophy, Grand Valley State University

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Heather Brant

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th C. Continental, Phenomenology, Existentialism & Ageing, Ethics, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Email address: brant2@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and Political Science at Hiram College

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Cole Busby

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

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Email address: sbusby1@usf.edu

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Yvonne Candelario

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Hume/Empiricism, Constructivism of Religion, WGS/Feminism & Religion, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine

Email address: ycandelario@usf.edu

Education: MA in Religious Studies, Georgia State University

BA in Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Marrissa Cook

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Epistemic Injustice, Datafication, Philosophy of Language

Email address: mlcook2@usf.edu

Education: MA in Medieval History, University of South Florida

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Seth Daves

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th & 20th Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Ethics

Email address: sethdaves@usf.edu

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Romario De La Hoz

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Medieval Philosophy; Existentialism; 19th and 20th Century Philosophy; World History (esp. post-WWII)

Email address: rdelahoz@usf.edu

Education: AA in Humanities, Seminole State College

BA in Philosophy w/minor in History, University of South Florida

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Jeffrey Diamond

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Continental Metaphysics, Leibniz, Philosophical Autobiography

Email address: diamond434@usf.edu

Education: MS in Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BA in Philosophy, College of William & Mary

Important links: Personal Website

Elliott Domagola

MA program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Analytic, Ancient (Greeks/Plato/Aristotle), Epistemology

Email address: edomagola@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and History, University of Pittsburgh

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Charles "Chet" Duke

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: History of Modern/19th-C. Philosophy (Kierkegaard, Kant), Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Historical Theology

Email address: charlesduke@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University

MTS in Theology, Lipscomb University

BA in Philosophy & Religion, Freed-Hardeman University

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Matthew Eckel

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: German Idealism; Ancient philosophy; Adorno

Email address: mattheweckel@usf.edu

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Bridget Erickson

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of the Human Person; Human Affectivity and Emotion; Ancient Philosophy; Christian Personalism

Email address: bridgeterickson@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and Classics & Early Christian Literature, Ave Maria University

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Richard "Bo" Frohock

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Social Epistemology, Expert Studies, Public Policy, Philosophy of Science

Email address: frohockr@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of South Florida

BA in Philosophy & English Literature, Pacific Lutheran University

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Jackson Garcia

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek ethics and political theory, Continental philosophy

Email address: desilver@usf.edu

Education: BA in Political Science, University of South Florida

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Dominique Greene-Sanders

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Ethics

Email address: greenesander@usf.edu

Education: MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics, University of North Florida

BA in Philosophy, University of Central Florida

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Peter Heath

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Aphoristic Wisdom Literature; Christianity and Judaism; Dostoevsky

Email address: heathp@usf.edu

Education: MA in American Literature, Miami University (Ohio)

BA in English and Philosophy, Gordon College

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Kyle Hodge

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics (esp. PSR), Metaethics (esp. NLT), History of Philosophy, Logic, Political Philosophy (diss. subject: conservative political theory)

Email address: kshodge@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of Florida

BA in Political Science, University of North Florida

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Jake Hogan

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Ethics, Moral Progress, Well-being and human flourishing, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Existentialism

Email address:  jdhogan@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Brigham Young University

MA in Philosophy, Georgia State University

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Matthew Hopps

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: matthewhopps@usf.edu

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Elizabeth Iglesias

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Ancient Greek political theory, Phenomenology, History of philosophy

Email address: iglesias@law.miami.edu

Education: JD, Yale University

BA in Philosophy, University of Michigan

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Leif Jacobson

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: leifjacobson@usf.edu

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Parjanya "PJ" Joshi

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History and Philosophy of Science, Environmental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Evolution, Buddhism, Process Metaphysics

Email address: parjanya@usf.edu

Education: MA in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai)

BA, Major in Science, Technology, and Society; Minor in Physics, University of Alberta

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Cheyne Joslin

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Disability

Email address: cheyne1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of Sussex

BA in Philosophy, Stetson University

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Jason Keyser

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Social and Political Philosophy, Rights, Property, Political Authority, Economic/Social Justification

Email address: jkeyser1@usf.edu

Education: Research MA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

MA, West Chester Univeristy of PA

BA, Slippery Rock University of PA

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Stephen Lasse

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek and Medieval Philosophy, Applied Ethics, American Pragmatism, Comparative Religious Studies

Email address: slasse@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Texas A&M University

BS in Humanities Interdisciplinary, United States Military Academy

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Ethan Linehan

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Modern Philosophy (esp. the Enlightenment and its critics); Political and Social Philosophy (esp. on progress & freedom)

Email address: elinehan@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, George Mason University

BA in Philosophy and History, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Monica "Laurel" Laurel-Leigh Meierdiercks

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Ecofeminism, Environmental Ethics, Phenomenology, Ontology

Email address: laurelleigh@usf.edu

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David Odom

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th C. Continental Philosophy, History of Ideas, Historical Epistemology, Kant, Heidegger, Foucault

Email address: dto1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of South Florida

BA in Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University

AA in Pre-Law Focus, Florida Southwestern State College

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Daniel Payne

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: danielpayne1@usf.edu

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Dylan Scott

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th Century Continental; Derrida; Philosophy of Religion

Email address: dylanscott1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Kent State University

BA in Psychology and Philosophy, Grove City College

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John Tuskey

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Christianity and modernity; Postsecularism; philosophy of religion; Critical Theory; social and political philosophy

Email address: jtuskey@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

BS in Philosophy, Portland State University 

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Joseph Wood

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Comparative theology, Judaism, dialogical philosophy, hermeneutics, translation theory

Email address: jawood@usf.edu

Education: M.Div. and Graduate Certificate in Muslim-Christian Studies, Virginia Theological Seminary

BA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College (MD)

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Douglas Zimmerman

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th Century Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Religion, Historical Christian Theology, Augustine, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Love

Email address: dszimmerman@usf.edu

Education: MA in Divinity, University of Chicago

BA Philosophy, University of Central Florida

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