Gabrielle Ray is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, which focuses on political philosophy, the history of philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, and Kant. She’s writing her dissertation on the status of religion in the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke under the direction of Professor Richard Velkley.
Michael Jones, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, studies the political economy of developing countries and post-conflict development processes. He is writing his dissertation, which focuses on how post-conflict political institutional reforms affect peace and development in the cases of Burundi and Rwanda, under the direction of Professor Martin Dimitrov.
Maura Cowen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy whose research focuses on Aristotle, Plato, and the history of philosophy. She is writing her dissertation is on the limits of the search for perfect justice in Plato's Republic under the direction of Professor Ronna Burger.
Geoffrey Weiss is a Ph.D. candidate who works in moral psychology and ethics. He is writing his dissertation, “A Theory of the Morally Unthinkable” under the direction of Dr. David Shoemaker. He is finishing his doctorate at Cornell University.
Cynthia Ma is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy whose research interests include ancient philosophy and the history of political philosophy. She is writing her dissertation, “Tyranny and Philosophy in Plato’s Republic” under the direction of Professor Ronna Burger.
Christina LeBlanc is a History Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University studying U.S. federal disaster relief in Puerto Rico from 1928-1960. Her dissertation examines how political status and gender shape U.S. federal disaster relief in Puerto Rico during the mid-twentieth century.
Daniel Dzah is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy who studies social and political philosophy, with a particular focus on migration. He is writing his dissertation, “The Ethics of Highly Skilled Migrations,” under the direction of Professor Chad van Schoelandt.
Michael Hannon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics a
Lan Nguyen works in the areas of industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and the economics of education. Specifically, she is interested in using a variety of methods (structural, reduced form, and experimental) to examine education policies, such as school choice, charter schools, and educational investment. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and her B.A. in economics from the University of Queensland, Australia.
