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Below are faculty who've volunteered to provide occasional mentorship advice to students over email and/or Skype. (Click faculty name to expand profile.)

Kate Abramson

Current: Associate Professor, Indiana University AOS: Hume, 18th C., Ethics AOC: Philosophical Feminism, Aesthetics

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Mohamad Al-Hakim

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. I hold an Honours Bachelor of Arts (philosophy and psychology) and a Master of Arts from McMaster University and completed my Doctorate at York University.

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Avery Archer

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My current research lies in philosophy of action at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and metaethics. I graduated from Columbia University in 2013, and I identify as African American and/or Afro-Caribbean.

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Elizabeth Anderson

I am John Dewey Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I work in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology, and feminist theory. Within these fields, my research has focused on democratic theory, equality in political philosophy and American law, racial integration, the ethical limits of markets, theories of value and rational choice (alternatives to consequentialism and economic theories of rational choice), the philosophies of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, and feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. I am currently working on the history of egalitarianism and the social epistemology of moral thought, taking advances in egalitarian thought, especially concerning the abolition of slavery, as central case studies.

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Andrew Arana

I am associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. I am a Latino and the first person in my extended family to go to college, let alone do graduate work.

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Samantha Brennan

Ethics, political philosophy, applied ethics, feminism

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Michael Brownstein

I'm Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NJIT. I earned my PhD at Penn State and was an undergraduate at Columbia University and Deep Springs College. I work on philosophical psychology, in particular (1) implicit social cognition and (2) skill and fluency.

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Cheshire Calhoun

Areas: ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of emotion, gay and lesbian philosophy.

Institution: Arizona State University

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Ruth Chang

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Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman

I am Research Associate in the Philosophy of 'Race', in the Department of Philosophy, at University College London. In addition, I am a Fellow, in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in the School of Advanced Study, at the University of London. In London, I work on the philosophies of sex, 'race', and slavery. Before returning home to Britain, I pursued graduate study in ethical, moral, social, and political philosophy, in the USA (at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), in South Africa (at the University of Cape Town), in Australia (at the Flinders University and at the University of Sydney), in Brazil (at the Universidade de São Paulo), and in France (at Sciences Po Paris). In these several countries, I have been witness to the challenges that 500 years of European competitive colonisation of the planet has set before our contemporary societies. It is incumbent upon the discipline of Philosophy to play its role in rising to those challenges.

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Gillian Crozier

Laurentian University

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Shannon Dea

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada. AOS: Early Modern, Classic Pragmatism. AOC: Philosophy of Sex/Gender, Equity in Academe, Teaching and Learning. (PhD: Western University)

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Donna Englemann

My specialties in philosophy are the intersecting areas of feminist ethics, political philosophy, epistemology and pedagogy. I have a PhD in political philosophy from Marquette University, and my dissertation was on Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience. I have been active in the American Association of Philosophy Teachers as board member, president and most recently as a co-facilitator for the AAPT/APA sponsored workshop for graduate students on teaching philosophy. I have spent my career teaching at Alverno College, a liberal arts college for women.

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Carrie Figdor

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa; Areas of research: philosophy of mind and cognitive science (including psychology and neuroscience), metaphysics, neuroethics, media ethics.

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Sandy Goldberg

My work is in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language, with particular interests in social epistemology, the theory of justification, speech act theory, and the theory of meaning and content. As Chair of my department, it has been very important to me to help it have an inclusive and welcoming environment.

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Lewis Gordon

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Europhilosophy Chair at Toulouse University, France; and Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Anna Gotlib

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY. I have a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. My areas of specialization are: Medical Ethics/Bioethics; Normative Ethics (especially Moral Psychology); Philosophy of Law; Feminist Philosophy. I also have interests in Social and Political Philosophy and Neuroethics.

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David Miguel Gray

I'm an assistant professor of philosophy at Colgate University. I finished my PhD at Harvard University in 2008. I specialize in philoosphy of race and racism, African-American philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. I also teach in philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics,and philosophy of science (cognitive science and evolutionary biology.

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Alex Guerrero

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. I work in Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy (including Applied Ethics), and also have interests in Epistemology, African Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Native American Philosophy. I completed my PhD at NYU and I also have a JD from NYU. I am Cuban-American, born in Texas but raised outside of Seattle.

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Sally Haslanger

I specialize in metaphysics, epistemology, feminist and critical race theory, and social/political philosophy. I earned my PhD from UC-Berkeley and have taught at several different schools before coming to MIT.

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Chike Jeffers

Areas of specialty: Africana philosophy, philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, ethics I am a black philosopher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who is very willing to correspond with students in need of mentorship.

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Syd Johnson

AOS: Ethics, bioethics, neuroethics Research interests: disorders of consciousness, sport-related concussion Michigan Technological University

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Rebecca Kukla

Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University

Areas of research: Philosophy of language, social epistemology, bioethics, philosophy of medicine and the special sciences

I would be interested in mentoring queer students, among others.

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Carole Lee

I work on methodological assumptions and normative implications of empirical research on judgment bias, with a recent focus on bias in peer review. I am an Asian (Korean) American woman.

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Emily S. Lee

I specialize in phenomenology, especially the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race. Most of my published articles are on PhilPapers. I teach at an undergraduate institution, so I cannot help as much on questions about graduate programs, but I’m willing to help where I can.

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Shen-yi Liao

I work on cognitive science, philosophy of mind, analytic aesthetics, and moral psychology. I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University and will also be, starting in 2014, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at University of Leeds. I'm Taiwanese.

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Michael Monahan

I am currently acting-chair of the Philosophy Department at Marquette University, and Vice-President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. I work mainly in the philosophy of race and racism, Africana Philosophy, and theories of oppression/liberation.

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Jennifer Morton

I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2008 and my A.B. from Princeton University in 2002. I'm currently an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York. I work in Philosophy of Action and Philosophy of Education. My work in philosophy of education deals with issues of diversity and liberal egalitarian justice. Recently, I have been thinking about culture code-switching and its effects on agency. I grew up in Lima, Peru and self-identify as Latina.

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Kate Norlock

I am the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. I earned my graduate degrees in Philosophy from University of Wisconsin-Madison and my undergraduate degree in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. I blog at Feminist Philosophers and my work includes attention to improving diversity and equity in philosophical education and workplaces.

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Tammy Nyden

I specialize in Early Modern Philosophy (especially Spinoza) and have research and teaching interests in the History and Philosophy of Science (especially physics in the Dutch Enlightenment). As an Associate Professor at Grinnell College, I may be particularly helpful to graduate students preparing to apply for teaching positions at undergraduate liberal arts colleges.

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Marina Oshana

Marina Oshana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Professor Oshana was born and raised in Philadelphia. A first-generation college student, she put herself through school, earning a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at San Francisco State University and an M.A. and PhD at the University of California, Davis. Professor Oshana’s research focuses on issues in personal autonomy, responsible agency, and self-identity. She teaches classes in normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and feminism. At Davis, she has devoted her time to mentoring undergraduate students, and particularly women, in philosophy. In the Fall of 2013, she founded u-POW (undergraduate Philosophically Oriented Women http://upow.faculty.ucdavis.edu/). Her publications include Personal Autonomy in Society (Ashgate, 2006) and The Importance of How We See Ourselves: Self-Identity and Responsible Agency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). Professor Oshana integrates her teaching interests into her research projects. Recent papers, including “Autonomy and the Partial Birth Abortion Act” (Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 46–60), “Secondhand (Moral) Responsibility in Law,” in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, ed. Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), and “Trust and Autonomous Agency,” (Res Philosophica, July 2014) grew out of work done in philosophy of law classes. Her publications on self-identity developed from seminars on responsible agency and on the self. Professor Oshana’s work has been widely hailed as furthering the dialogue about personal autonomy as a social and relational phenomenon. She is editor of Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression: Philosophical Perspectives, (forthcoming, Routledge 2014).

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L.A. Paul

I am Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. My main research interests are in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, especially temporal phenomenology, time, perception, the ontology of mental states, the philosophy of cognitive science, mereology, causation, constitution, and essence. I work on related topics in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.

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Dan Peterson

I'm currently a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. I did my undergraduate work at Swarthmore College and my graduate work at the University of Michigan. My interests are primarily in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and formal epistemology, but I have secondary interests in a wide variety of topics including metaphysics, philosophy of religion, logic, and philosophy of education. While I self-identify as a straight, white male and haven't experienced discrimination firsthand, I am appalled at the stories I have heard from friends and co-workers and want to do everything in my power to ensure that philosophy is a safe, welcoming discipline to all students, regardless of their race, gender, or sexual orientation.

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Ruth Poproski

I work at Carnegie Mellon University as a teaching consultant and researcher in the Eberly Center (CMU's teaching center), and teach as Special Faculty in the Philosophy Department. My philosophy-related research (I also spend a lot of time thinking about higher education) is in Philosophy of Language and Game Theory, with comp. in epistemology, modern philosophy, logic, and philosophy of religion.

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Sarah Richardson

History and philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; feminist epistemology and philosophy of science; gender, race, and science.

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Laura Ruetsche

I am a philosopher of physics, also interested in philosophical dimensions of the interaction between science and its context. I am also (at least for now) Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan. I went to college on a Pell Grant, and was the first in my extended family to do post-graduate work.

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Gillian Russell

I'm a philosopher at Washington University in St Louis and I work on the philosophy of language and logic, and epistemology. I'm originally from the UK, and I got my PhD from Princeton in 2004.

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Susanna Schellenberg

Associate Professor, Rutgers University My work focuses on a range of topics in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. I am particularly interested in the nature of perceptual experience, evidence, knowledge, capacities, mental content, and imagination.

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Naomi Scheman

University of Minnesota

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Miriam Solomon

Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies, Temple University. My research areas are philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, epistemology and bioethics.

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Quayshawn Spencer

I do philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of race. I don't teach at a PhD or MA granting philosophy program, but I earned my PhD at Stanford, and I am employed as a tenure-track professor in a philosophy department. I identify as African American.

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Susanne Sreedhar

Boston University

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Chandra Sripada

Specializations: Ethics, moral psychology, cognitive science.

Grad institution: U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Serife Tekin

Daemen College

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Mariam Thalos

Philosophy of science

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Jonathan Tsou

Research interests: philosophy of science, philosophy of psychiatry, history of 20th century philosophy of science, philosophy of mind/ cognitive science Graduate institution: University of Chicago

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Dustin Tucker

I work in logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language; I focus especially on paradoxes, propositions, and logics of practical reasoning. I did my PhD at the University of Michigan and I'm currently an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. I'm half Asian and half white, though people more often ask if I'm American Indian.

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Audrey Yap

Currently an associate professor at the University of Victoria (Canada). I work in the history and philosophy of math and logic, as well as in epistemic logic, argumentation, and some areas of feminist philosophy. I'm Asian-Canadian.

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