DUOS Awards

Writing with the Body: An Intersectional Study on Women’s Writing (MAP)

Graduate Student: Ece Şahinoğlu Isik

Undergraduate Student: Megan Anderson

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

Exploring the Roles of Mortality and Natality in Feminist Philosophy

Graduate Student: Sarah Simms

Undergraduate Student: Katherine Oreshkin

Faculty Advisor: Fanny Söderbäck

The Dionysian State: Friedrich Nietzsche on Politics and Community (MAP)

Graduate Student: Kemal Isik

Undergraduate Student: Samantha Giudice

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

Revolutionizing the Past: The Reproduction of Colonial Harms Within 1920s Peru and the Role of Memory in Mariátegui’s Socialist Solution (MAP)

Graduate Student:  Julian D. Rios Acuña

Undergraduate Student: Carolina Aceves

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Millán Brusslan

Transcendental Consciousness and the Problem of World Constitution

Graduate Student: Daniel Perlman

Undergraduate Student: Sheldon White

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson

Art contra Author: How Harry Potter Resists J.K. Rowling's Gender Essentialism (MAP)

Graduate Student: Jessica Avery

Undergraduate Student: Madison Shooter

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

Feminism and the Commons in Latin America (MAP)

Graduate Student: Paula Landerreche Cardillo

Undergraduate Student: Paola Asturias

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Millán Brusslan

The Idealism of the Culture Industry and its Critical Counterpart in the Avant-Garde 

Graduate Student: Gregory Convertito

Undergraduate Student: Brad Brewington

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman

The Freudian Body Politic

Graduate Student: Bryan Maddox

Undergraduate Student: Olivia Piotrowski

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

Gender Trouble and Cultural Attitudes

Graduate Student:Bradley Ramos

Undergraduate Student:Elizabeth Baughman

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D.

Transcendental Subjectivity in Naturalized Phenomenology

Graduate Student: Daniel Perlman

Undergraduate Student: Kyle Benjamin

Faculty Advisor: H. Peter Steeves, Ph.D.

Blood and Bile Must Boil: Soul and Life in Platonic Thought & Radical Phenomenology

Graduate Student: Ellery Beard

Undergraduate Student: Ian Chong 

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland, Ph.D.

Pathos as the Source of Action (The Phenomenology of Life and the Phenomenology of Action)

Graduate Student: Héctor Ramos

Undergraduate Student: Sarah Ferrara 

Faculty Advisor: Frederic Seyler Jr., Ph.D.

Ontology and Alterity: Understanding Levinas and Irigaray's Conflicting Approaches to Ethics

Graduate Student: Sarah Simms

Undergraduate Student: Kay Herron

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman, Ph.D.

Inquiries into the History and Philosophy of the Concept of Time

Graduate Student: Zhen Liang

Undergraduate Student: Danielle Leppert-Simenauer

Faculty Advisor: H. Peter Steeves, Ph.D.

Freedom and Necessity in Hegel

Graduate Student: Ryan Froese

Undergraduate Student: Christopher Modlin

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

The Time of Becoming: On the Relation between Temporality and Ethics in Deleuze and the Stoics

Graduate Student: Eric Aldieri

Undergraduate Student: Riley O'Brien

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

Foucault's Theory of Biopolitics

Graduate Student: Vilde Lid Aavitsland

Undergraduate Student: Danielle Ortiz

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

Judgement and Punishment in the Case of JonBenet Ramsey

Graduate Student: Dan Perlman

Undergraduate Student: Kate Meulemans

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D.

Collective Memory and Trauma: Building Shared Narratives Across Broken Worlds

Graduate Student: Jennifer Gammage

Undergraduate Student: Grace Baffoe

Faculty Advisor: María Acosta, Ph.D.

From The Abstract to the Concrete: Hegel on Possibility and Normativity

Graduate Student: Ryan Froese 

Undergraduate Student: Angela Godoy 

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

"An Infinite amount of hope but not for us." On the Thought of Redemption in Walter Benjamin

Graduate Student: Daniel Pepe

Undergraduate Student: Sarah Ferrara 

Faculty Advisor: Richard A. Lee, Jr., Ph.D.

Reading Audre Lorde to Understand Art as Protest

Graduate Student: Amelia Hruby

Undergraduate Student: Hannah Kaplan

Faculty Advisor: Maria Acosta, Ph.D.

Foucault's Genealogy of the Contemporary 'Self'

Graduate Student: David Maruzzella

Undergraduate Student: Grace Kunkel

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

The Role of Communicability in Derrida's Democracy To Come

Graduate Student: Michael Peterson

Undergraduate Student: Amanda Loeffelholz

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D.

Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: From the Analytic to the Dialectic

Graduate Student: Khafiz Kerimov

Undergraduate Student: Antonia Pappas

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman, Ph.D.

Albert Camus's Absurd Ethics

Graduate Student: Rachel Silverbloom

Undergraduate Student: Trevor Netzer

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland, Ph.D.

From The Abstract to the Concrete: Hegel on Possibility and Normativity in Nietzsche and Lukacs

Graduate Student: Ashley Fleshman 

Undergraduate Student: Jacob Whitford 

Faculty Advisor: Richard A. Lee, Jr., Ph.D.

Liberal Passions: On the Foundations of Social Contract Theory and their Neoliberal Vicissitudes*

Graduate Student: Ashley Fleshman

Undergraduate Student: Margaret Nicosia

Faculty Advisor: Peg Birmingham, Ph.D.

Queerness as disruption of aesthetic realms: modern and contemporary approaches to the beautiful and compulsory heterosexualism.*

Graduate Student: Miguel Gualdrón

Undergraduate Student: Kelsey Cruz

Faculty Advisor: María Acosta, Ph.D.

Reason, Passion, and Alienation in Hegel and Sartre*

Graduate Student: Rachel Silverbloom

Undergraduate Student: Dominic Blanco

Faculty Advisor: Frédéric Seyler, Ph.D.

On the Relationship between Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason

Graduate Student: Khafiz Kerimov

Undergraduate Student: Nathaniel Leonhardt

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman, Ph.D.

Laughing Matters: Philosophy's Other Bodies

Graduate Student: María Salvador

Undergraduate Student: Jude Lee

Faculty Advisor: Fanny Söderbäck, Ph.D.

Positive Law and Sovereignty

Graduate Student: Jeta Mulaj

Undergraduate Student: J Maxwell

Faculty Advisor: Frédéric Seyler, Ph.D.

"World" in Laozi's Daodejing: A Heideggerian Approach

Undergraduate Student: Kelly Cunningham

Graduate Student: Paul Turner

Faculty Advisor: Sean D. Kirkland, Ph.D.

Deconstruction of the Subject in Heidegger and Derrida

Graduate Student: David Maruzzella

Undergraduate Student: Léna Pican

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D.

Politics as Peace, Politics as Conflict: Civility as a Political Norm

Graduate Student: Owen Glyn-Williams

Undergraduate Student: Akiva Mattenson

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

* Funded by Maimonides Endowment

To Be Contemporaries of Aesthetics: Literature, Poetry in Contemporary Philosophy*

Graduate Student: David Maruzzella

Undergraduate Student: Nicole Urell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. María Acosta

Aristotle's Substance as Energeiaor Activity*

Graduate Student: Khafiz Kerimov

Undergraduate Student: Rebecca MacMaster

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sean D. Kirkland

Enigmatic Translations: Feminism, Phenomenology, and Psychoanalysis*

Graduate Student: Jeta Mulaj

Undergraduate Student: Lucy Corbin

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Rottenberg

Hegel's Concept of the Syllogism in the Science of Logic: Rethinking the Middle Term

Graduate Student: Jacob Singer

Undergraduate Student: Sam Ridge

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kevin Thompson

Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Existential Ethics: Reading the Second Sex in Light of the Ethics of Ambiguity

Graduate Student: Amelia Hrbuy

Undergraduate Student: Megan Janowiak

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Fanny Söderbäck

From Natural Law to State Morality: On the Subject of Benjamin’s Critique of Violence

Graduate Student: Dan Pepe

Undergraduate Student: J Maxwell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard A. Lee Jr.

Adorno, Autonomous Art, and the Praxis of the Soviet Avante-Garde

Graduate Student: James Murphy

Undergraduate Student: Leah Hasdan

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard A. Lee Jr.

Consistency and Organization in the Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

Graduate Student: Kieran Aarons

Undergraduate Student: Kevin Klein

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason D. Hill

The Development of Phenomenological Temporality in Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty

Graduate Student: Michael Peterson

Undergraduate Student: Alexander Griffin

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sean D. Kirkland

* Funded by Maimonides Endowment

Aristotle's Natural Teleology

Graduate Student:  Cameron Coates

Undergraduate Student: Student: Alyssa Walker

Faculty Advisor:  Michael Naas, Ph.D.

The Tragic Nature of Philosophy and Art in Nietzsche’s Dionysian Figure and Beyond

Graduate Student: Jennifer Gammage

Undergraduate Student:  Danielle Szabo

Faculty Advisor: Will McNeill, Ph.D.

Kant and Schopenhauer: Comparative Aesthetics and the Question of Feminist Aesthetics

Graduate Student: Amelia Hruby

Undergraduate Student: Brooklynn Leonhardt

Faculty Advisor:  María Acosta, Ph.D.

Foucauldian Biopolitics : Normativity, Visibility and Intelligibility

Graduate Student:  Selin Islekel

Undergraduate Student: Kylie Allen

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Millán, Ph.D.

“Destituent Power and the Ungoverned Life”

Graduate Student:  Kieran Aarons

Undergraduate Student: Adam Polich

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D.

On Dualism and its Discontents from Plato to Nietzsche

Graduate Student: Gil Morejon

Undergraduate Student: Samuel Carroll

Faculty Advisor: Richard Lee, Ph.D.

The Circularity of Transcendental Reasoning: A Study of the System of Principles in

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Graduate Student: Güçsal Pusar

Undergraduate Student: Alexander Griffin

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman, Ph.D.

Border Thinking as Anti-Colonial Resistance: Mestizaje, Modernity, and Epistemic

Disobedience

Graduate Student: María Salvador

Undergraduate Student: Cynthia Marrero Ramos

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Millán, Ph.D.

The Concept of the Concept in Hegel's "Science of Logic"

Graduate Student: Jacob Singer

Undergraduate Student: Bryndahl Weston

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson Ph.D.

Race, Gender and Capitalism: Social Reproductive Feminism from the 1970s to Present

Graduate Student: Ashley Bohrer

Undergraduate Student: Mary Fanslow

Faculty Advisor: Peg Birmingham

Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Anthropocentrism

Graduate Student: JD Singer

Undergraduate Student: Kelsey Becker

Faculty Advisor: H. Peter Steeves

The Truth in Laughter: An Examination of the Role of Humor in the Philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel and F. Schlegel and Its Application to the Landscape of Contemporary Stand-Up

Graduate Student: Karolin Mirzakhan

Undergraduate Student: Molly Dannenberg

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Millán

Being and Letting-Be in Eckhart and in Reiner Schürmann’s Les Origines

Graduate Student: Ian Moore

Undergraduate Student: Hajrije Kolimja

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

The Problem of Transcendence in Kant and Heidegger

Graduate Student: Güçsal Pusar

Undergraduate Student: Shuang Goh

Faculty Advisor: Avery Goldman

On the Kantian Legacy of Adorno's Negative Dialectic

Graduate Student: Dan Pepe

Undergraduate Student: Rebecca Valeriano-Flores

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland

Fichte and Nietzsche: Selfhood, Creativity, Intersubjectivity

Graduate Student: Evan Edwards

Undergraduate Student: John Paul

Faculty Advisor: Kevin Thompson

Gender, Race, and Temporality

Graduate Student: Marie Draz

Undergraduate Student: Molly Dannenberg

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland, PhD

The Face of the Siren: On the Role of the Ugly in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Critique of the Enlightenment

Graduate Student: James Murphy

Undergraduate Student: Nikolas Paras

Faculty Advisor: Darrell Moore, PhD

The Metaphysical Stance: Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche’s Thought of the Eternal Return of the Same

Graduate Student: Gucsal Pusar

Undergraduate Student: James Callahan

Faculty Advisor: Will McNeill, PhD

Experiencing the Past: Continental Feminist Critiques of Linear Time

Graduate Student: Anna Johnson

Undergraduate Student: Mohna Kahn

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rottenberg, PhD

Sharing the flesh of the World: Understanding Merleau-Ponty’s Account of the Human-Animal Relationship

Graduate Student: Jonathan Singer

Undergraduate Student: Sarah Cypher

Faculty Advisor: H. Peter Steeves, PhD

Politics without Rights within the Deleuzo-Spinozist Cartography

Graduate Student: Sonya Nihan Ozbey

Undergraduate Student: Sharlene Quintana

Faculty Advisor: Frank Perkins, PhD

Aristotle’s Ideal Polis and Human Happiness: An Inclusive or Exclusive Politics?

Graduate Student: Christopher Turner

Undergraduate Student: Esthefany Archila

Faculty Advisor: Sean Kirkland, PhD

Rejection and Redemption: On the Subject of Late Marxism

Graduate Student: Gil Morejon

Undergraduate Student: Alec Fiorini

Faculty Advisor: Richard Lee, PhD

Music as Philosophy?

Graduate Student: Daniel Rosiak

Undergraduate Student: Nicholas Meryhew

Faculty Advisor: Richard Lee, PhD

Hegel's Aesthetics

Undergraduate student: Charles Rutter

Graduate student: Karolin Mirzakhan

Faculty mentor: Prof. Avery Goldman

A Study of the Themes of Language and Interpretation in Recent Nietzsche Scholarship

Undergraduate student: Kaitlyn Conners

Graduate student: Ali Beheler

Faculty mentor: Prof. Will McNeill

Cinematographic Concepts and Philosophical Images: Deleuze and Cinema

Undergraduate student: Sheeroz Kamran

Graduate student: Erik Beranek

Faculty mentor: Prof. Richard Lee

The Question of Order: A Philosophical Reflection on Lanugage and Space in Latin America

Undergraduate student: Benjamin Barajas

Graduate student: Don Deere

Faculty mentor: Prof. Darrell Moore

Is Gelassenheit an Attunement?

Undergraduate student: Logan Breitbart

Graduate student: Ian Moore

Faculty mentor: Prof. Will McNeill

Analytic Accounts of Curiosity

Undergraduate student: Meaghan Lidd

Graduate student: Perry Zurn

Faculty mentor: Prof. Elizabeth Millán

Derrida’s Abolitionist Discourse and Its Roots in Nietzsche’s Analysis of Disciplinary Punishment

Undergraduate student: Jeff Hastings

Graduate student: Perry Zurn

Faculty mentor: Prof. Michael Naas

Human Capital and the Fluctuating Borders between Work and Life

Undergraduate student: Chris Hunton

Graduate student: Kieran Aarons

Faculty mentor: Prof. Kevin Thompson

The Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy in Derrida’s La peine de mort

Undergraduate student: Robbie Dunevant

Graduate student: Tristan Fischl

Faculty mentor: Prof. Elizabeth Rottenberg

A non-Determinative Account of the Historical Circumstances Surrounding Hume’s Philosophy of Causation

Undergraduate student:Billy Anastopoulos

Graduate student: James Griffith

Faculty mentor: Prof. Richard Lee

Philosophy of Education in the Time of Neo-liberalism

Undergraduate student: Terry Vaughn

Graduate student: Jana McAuliffe

Faculty mentor: Prof. Elizabeth Millán

A Lexicon of Appearances in the Aristotelian Corpus

Undergraduate student: Christopher J. Knoerzer

Graduate student: Jeff Pardikes

Faculty mentor: Prof. Elizabeth Millán

Natural Organisms, Artificial Designs: How to Think of the ‘Natural’ and the “Artificial’ in Spinoza’s Thought

Undergraduate Student: Lauren Taylor

Graduate Student: Sonya Nihan Ozbey

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Franklin Perkins

Acting in the Absence of Metaphysics: A Critical Genealogy of Buddhist Methodologies

Undergraduate Student: Devin Soule

Graduate Student: Rohan Sikri

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Franklin Perkins

A Discourse of the Non-Discursive in Pseudo-Dionysius

Undergraduate Student: Eduardo Lazaro

Graduate Student: Benjamin Frazer-Simser

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Sean Kirkland

Individual and Social Freedom in Hegel’s Political Theory

Undergraduate Student: Benjamin Wegner

Graduate Student: Thomas Wright

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Kevin Thompson

Methodology and Meta-Critique: Fichte and Hegel on the Nature and Limits of Knowledge

Undergraduate Student: Neil Loomis

Graduate Student: Thomas Krell

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Kevin Thompson

An Annotated Bibliography of Philosophical Interpretations of Descartes’ Imagination

Undergraduate Student: Sarah Prusik

Graduate Student: James Griffith

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Richard A. Lee

The Subject and Power: Hegel, Marx, and Freud in Latin American Philosophy

Undergraduate Student: Ricardo Ortiz

Graduate Student: Don Deere

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Darrell Moore

Foucault’s Curious Post-Confessional Project and its Implications for Postmodern Religious Theory

Undergraduate Student: Stephen Wrenn

Graduate Student: Perry A. Zurn

Faculty Mentor: Prof. Darrell Moore

Heidegger’s ‘World’ in the Work of Arendt and Spivak

Undergraduate Student: Lindsay Ansai

Graduate Student: Rosalie Siemon

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Peg Birmingham

Violent Animals: Derrida on Animality

Undergraduate Student: Michael Bargo

Graduate Student: Richard Elmore

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Michael Naas

Appreciating Kant’s ‘Minor’ Works and their Relevance for Social-Political Philosophy Today

Undergraduate Student: David Ellis

Graduate Student: Dilek Huseyinzadegan

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Elizabeth Millán

Heidegger’s ‘Dasein Analytic’ and Evolutionary Theory

Undergraduate Student: Elizabeth King

Graduate Student: Jonathan Singer

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. H. Peter Steeves

Locating Biopolitics in The Birth of Biopolitics

Undergraduate Student: Colby Lovins

Graudate Student: David Bleeden

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Peg Birmingham

Self-Deception and Political Violence

Undergraduate Student: Devin Soule

Graduate Student: James Manos

Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Peg Birmingham

Arendt as Thinker of Political Identity

Undergraduate Student: Lindsay Stewart

Graduate Student: Rosalie Siemon

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Namita Goswami

A Lexicon of Stoic Terminology: Early, Modern, and Late

Undergraduate Student: John Kuble-Ball

Graduate Student: Robin Weiss

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sean Kirkland

Plato's Dialectic

Undergraduate Student: Dan Edelstein

Graduate Student: Jeremy Bell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sean Kirkland

Revolution in the Middle East and Latin America

Undergraduate Student: Ali Abbas

Graduate Student: Azadeh Erfani

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert

Freud's Concept of Disavowal

Undergraduate Student: Matt Eddington

Graduate Student: James Manos

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Rottenberg

Gilles Deleuze: Preoccupations and Method

Undergraduate Student: Casey Ford

Graduate Student: Kieran Aaron

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kevin Thompson