Center for Ethics Hosts Second Annual Graduate Fellows Presentation
Dr. Jennifer Beers

The Center for Ethics’ Graduate Fellowship program supports outstanding Tulane doctoral students who are writing dissertations that engage with ethical questions. The 2025-2026 CE Graduate Fellow cohort closed out a productive fellowship year by sharing their research during the second annual CE Graduate Fellows Presentation, held on Thursday, April 23, at Tulane’s Lavin-Bernick Center. Five fellows presented their dissertation projects and shared the year’s progress and fielded questions about their work from the audience, which included CE’s director, Murphy Institute staff, dissertation directors and committee members, current CE Graduate Fellows, and members of next year’s CE Graduate Fellows cohort. 

CE Grad Fellow Darcy Roake presents via a projector screen.
CE Graduate Fellow Darcy Roake (History), virtually presents her research.
CE Grad Fellow Mathias Schwab-Garbizu presents via a projector screen.
CE Graduate Fellow Mathias Schwab-Garbizu (French and Italian) virtually presents his research.

 

Since two Fellows are wrapping up their year conducting their research abroad in France, the session convened with some fellows and audience members in-person while others joined the conversation virtually. We wish our 2025-2026 CE Graduate Fellows the best of luck completing their dissertation and degree requirements! 

2025-2026 CE Graduate Fellows: 

  • Jeffrey Colgan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His dissertation, The Limits of Language and Philosophy, is written under the direction of Prof. Richard Velkley. 
  • Joseph Keegin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His dissertation, Hegel's Critiques of Morality, is written under the direction of Prof. Richard Velkley. 
  • Darcy Roake is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History. Her dissertation, “Whose Moral Property?”: A Social, Economic and Legal History of RU-486: Testing and Distribution in France and the United States from 1980-2000, is written under the direction of Prof. Karissa Haugeberg. 
  • Mathias Schwab is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian. His dissertation, L’oral scolaire, un instrument de justice sociale ? de Marseille à la Louisiane: regards croisés sociolinguistiques et didactiques, is written under the direction of Prof. Charles Klingler. 
  • Chen Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His dissertation, What We Owe Each Other in Chains of Contempt, is written under the direction of Prof. Chad Van Schoelandt.