Samuel Stoner is a Ph.D. candidate in Tulane’s Department of Philosophy. His dissertation, “On Kant’s Philosophical Authorship,” explores Kant’s understanding of the nature and significance of philosophical communication, especially insofar as this understanding informs Kant’s own activity of composing and publishing works of philosophy for public consumption. His dissertation committee includes Profs. Oliver Sensen, Felicitas Munzel, and Ronna Burger, and Prof. Richard Velkley is the committee chair.

Marc Blainey has a B.A. in anthropology (University of Western Ontario, 2005) and an M.A. in archaeology (Trent University, 2007). His M.A. and Ph.D. research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and he has published articles in the journals Ancient Mesoamerica, Anthropology of Consciousness, and Time & Mind. Under the supervision of Dr. William Balée at Tulane, he is now in the final stages of writing a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Ayahuasca Therapy, Secularism, & the Santo Daime Religion in Belgium”.

Paul Wilford is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy writing his dissertation, which focuses on logic of history in the works of G.E. Lessing, J. G. Herder, and Immanuel Kant, under the direction of Richard Velkley.

Nathan Stout earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University in 2016, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program for Medical Ethics and Human Values in the Tulane University School of Medicine. He is also is a member of the Tulane Social/Behavioral Institutional Review Board and works on the Integrated Ethics team in the New Orleans VA Hospital.

Franklin Worrell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy writing his dissertation on autonomy and mental illness under the direction of Alison Denham.

Alex McManus is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History writing his dissertation on the response of the Louisiana establishment to Huey Long under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Powell.

Thomas Mulligan, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, is writing his dissertation, which focuses on merit and its relationship to justice, under the direction of Professor Eric Mack.

Daniel Davenport, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, is writing his dissertation on the goodness of justice in Plato’s Republic under the supervision of Professor Ronna Burger.

Christopher Willoughby, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, is writing his dissertation on racial science in antebellum American medical culture under the direction of Professor Randy Sparks.