Michael Redman earned a B.A. in History from Tennessee Technology University in 1992, and a M.A. in History from the University of Tennessee in 1995. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane’s Department of History. In 1997, he was the recipient of the history department’s Hogan award for outstanding teaching.
Matthew Oberrieder received his B.A. (cum laude) from the University of Tulsa in 1993, and his Ph.D. from Tulane’s Department of Philosophy in 2004. A graduate fellowship allowed him to complete his dissertation, “The Significance in Plato’s Protogoras of Shame and Self-Knowledge for Understanding the Human,” under the direction of Professor Ronna Burger.
Dr. Oberrieder is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Mercer University. His research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, language and literature.
Elizabeth Umphress received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997 and went on to earn her Ph.D. in Organizational Management from Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business in 2003. A Graduate Fellowship enabled her to complete her dissertation, “In the Name of the Company: Unethical Behaviors Perpetrated by Employees in Response to Fair Treatment”, under the direction of Professor Art Brief in the A.B. Freeman School of Business.
Kristin Smith Crowe earned her B.A. (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Psychology from Hendrix College in 1998, and went on complete a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organization Psychology at Tulane University in 2004. She wrote her dissertation “An Interactionist Perspective on Ethical Decision-Making: Integrative Complexity and the Case of Worker Safety” under the direction of Professor Michael Burke.
Julinna C. Oxley received a B.A. (cum laude) in Philosophy and English Literature from Wheaton College in 1995, and an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University in 2006. She completed her dissertation, “Empathy in Contractual Theories of Ethics” under the direction of Professor Gerald Gaus.
Christy Sumich earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) in English in 1994 from Louisiana State University where she was also elected Phi Beta Kappa. She completed an M.A. in English from the University of New Orleans in 1997 and her Ph.D. in history from Tulane University in 2008.
Dr. Sumich's research interests include cultural understanding of illness, the history of medicine, and early modern sexuality. She completed her dissertation, “Cultural Conception of Disease and the Medical Profession in Seventeenth-Century England” under the direction of Professor Linda Pollock.
Ben Crowe specializes in 19th and 20th century German philosophy and philosophy of religion. He received his B.A. from Hendrix College in 1998; his M.A. from Tulane University, in 2000; and his Ph.D from Tulane in 2004. Crowe wrote his dissertation, “Destroying the Wisdom of the Wise: On the Origin and Development of ‘Destruktion’ in Heidegger’s Early Thought” under the direction of Professor Michael Zimmerman at Tulane’s Department of Philosophy.
William Glod received his B.A. (cum laude) in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He received his doctorate from the Department of Philosophy at Tulane in 2008, writing his dissertation, “Liberalism’s Case against Legal Paternalism and in Defense of Actual Consent” under the direction of Professor Eric Mack.
Dr. Glod’s research interests lie in virtue ethics and political philosophy, particularly classical liberalism. He is currently Managing Editor of PPE, and a Lecturer in Philosophy at Tulane.
Hans Gruenig earned his B.A. (cum laude) in Philosophy and German in 1992 at the University of Vermont where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to complete an M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1999. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Tulane University. He was the recipient of Tulane University’s Motor Board Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2001-2002, and a Berlin Exchange Fellowship at the Freie Universitat in 2002-3003.
Becca Livingstone earned her B.A. in history from Lawrence College in 1997, and her M.A. in history from Tulane University in 2001, and a Ph.D. in history in 2007. In 2002 she was awarded the Department of History’s Hogan Prize for outstanding teaching by a graduate student at Tulane University.
Dr. Livingstone is Assistant Professor of History at Simpson College. She completed her dissertation, “Unsettled Households: Domestic Homicide in Seventeenth-Century England,” under the direction of Professor Linda Pollock.
