Graduate Student Directory

Alexander Anderson, BA, MA, Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville
asa22@buffalo.edu
Interests:   Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Metaphysics

Carter-Beau Benson, BA, University at Buffalo
carterbe@buffalo.edu
Interests: Bioethics and Pluralism

Jaron Cheung, BA Public Policy, University of California, Riverside; MTS, Duke University
cheung47@buffalo.edu
Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Race, and American Pragmatism

Giacomo DeColle, BA, Trento’s University, Italy
gdecolle@buffalo.edu
Interests: Complex systems, Philosophy of AI, Applied Ontology

Botan Dolun, BSc, University of Florida; MA Bogazici University, Turkey
botandol@buffalo.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Action, Metaethics

2023 Award: Social Impact Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo

Ali Hasanzadeh, BA Philosophy BS Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ahasanza@buffalo.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Space-Time, Metaphysics, Applied Ontology

Shane Hemmer, BA SUNY Fredonia; MA University at Buffalo
shanehem@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Bioethics, Epistemology

Katrina Johnson, BA Philosophy, Politics, Economics, SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
kejohnso@buffalo.edu

Matthew Jones, BA, East Stroudsburg University
mjones33@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysical Topics, Time, Traditional Ontology, and Causation

Hyemi Jun, BA Philosophy, Soongsil University, Seoul, S. Korea
hyemijun@buffalo.edu
Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Korean Philosophy

Sean Kermath, BA in Philosophy, University of Michigan, MA in Philosophy, Western Michigan University
seankerm@buffalo.edu
Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics

Noah Kim, BA Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; MA Philosophy, Biola University, La Mirada, CA 
njkim4@buffalo.edu
Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, and History of Philosophy

Austin Liebers, BA St. Lawrence University
aclieber@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysics, Metaethics, and Aesthetics

Ta-Yuan (Scott) Luan, BSc, MSc Stanford, JD George Washington Law School
scottlua@buffalo.edu
Interests: Theory of Artifacts, Ontology, Philosophy of Law

Delaney McNulty, BS, University of Utah
mcnulty5@buffalo.edu
Interests: Problem of Freewill, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Psychology

Joshua Merlo, BA, MA, Franciscan University of Steubenville, MA University at Buffalo
jmerlo@buffalo.edu
Interests: History of Philosophy (Medieval and Modern), Philosophy of Religion

Eric Merrell, BA, Juniata College
ericmerr@buffalo.edu
Interests:  Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Kant

Emanuel Mora-Moreno, BA Whitman College, MA Yale University, MDiv/STM Union Theological Seminary
mmoramor@bufalo.edu
Interests:  History of Philosophy, Ancient (Plato, Aristotle), Early Modern (esp. Spinoza, Hume) Kant, Hegel, American Pragmatism (esp. Neo-Pragmatism)

Cameron G. More, BA Philosophy, Classics, History, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
cgmore@buffalo.edu

Andrew Pfeuffer, BA LaRoche College; MA Franciscan University of Steubenville
ajpfeuff@buffalo.edu
Interests: Kant, Rationalism, Modern Philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, and Philosophy of Science

Gloria Sanso, BA and MA in Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy
gsanso@buffalo.edu
Interests: Applied Ontology, Philosophy of Language

Alec Sculley, BA, University at Buffalo; MA in Philosophy, Western Michigan University
alecscul@buffalo.edu
Interests: Applied Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy

Thanos Spiliotakaras, MScR University of Edinburgh, BA, University of Athen
aspiliot@buffalo.edu
Interests: Kant, Hegel, Aesthetics, 19^th and 20^th century Continental Philosophy

Jonathan Vajda, BA in psychology and philosophy, Central Michigan University; MA in religion, Westminster Theological Seminary; MA in philosophy, Western Michigan
jvajda@buffalo.edu
Interests: Early Modern, Metaphysics, Ethics

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Joshua Vonderhaar, BA, New York University; MA , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
jvonderh@buffalo.edu
Interests: Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Finn Wilson, BA Philosophy, D’Youville College
finnwils@buffalo.edu
Interests: Bioethics, Personal Identity, and Early Modern Philosophy

Peihong (Karl) Xie, BA Philosophy, MA Philosophy of Science and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
peihongx@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

Jieming Yu, LLB, East China University of Political Science and Law; LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; MA, New York University
jiemingy@buffalo.edu
Interests: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Topics in Metaphysics: Vagueness and Modality

Tiankui Zeng, BS Economics, MA Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
tiankuiz@buffalo.edu