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Author:

Feldman, Alex J

Title:

Foucault and the Problems of History: A Critique of the Concept of Historicization

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Foucault
history
continental philosophy
French philosophy
politics of history

File:

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Committee Members:

Leonard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Nancy Tuana, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member
Amy Allen, Committee Member

Author:

Aggleton, Sabrina Irene

Title:

VULNERABLE BODIES: THE THREAT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE ERROR OF RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

rape
ethics
embodiment
phenomenology
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Simone de Beauvoir
gender
vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member

Author:

Barker, Joseph Andrew

Title:

First as Enclosure, then as Escape: Heidegger and Deleuze on Nietzsche's Relation to Western Philosophy

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Nietzsche Deleuze Heidegger materiality concepts thought

File:

Download Barker_Dissertation_-_2017_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Leonard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Amy Allen, Committee Member
Claire Colebrook, Outside Member

Author:

Gault, Samuel Ormiston

Title:

Dialectic of Institution: Merleau-Ponty's Overcoming of the Antinomy of Freedom and Necessity

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology
Descartes
Ethics
Early Modern Philosophy
Freedom

File:

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Committee Members:

Leonard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Theodore Albert Toadvine Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Ewara, Eyo

Title:

The World's Ends: Standpoint, Comportment, and Ethics in Wilderson, Edelman, and Heidegger

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Heidegger
Lee Edelman
Frank Wilderson III
Phenomenology
Anti-social Queer Theory
Afro-pessimism
Ethics
Feminist Standpoint Theory

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Member
Amy Allen, Committee Member
Clarie Colebrook, Outside Member

Author:

Yokum, Nicole

Title:

The Politics of Attachment: Toward a Critical Theory of Affect

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Adorno
Fanon
Marcuse
Honneth
queer theory
Lacan
psychoanalysis
Freud
affect theory
critical theory
feminist theory
critical philosophy of race
attachment

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Allen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Tracy Rutler (she/her/hers), Outside Unit & Field Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thomas, Kierstan Bailey

Title:

Knowing While Black: Insidious Ignorance and Oppositional Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

social epistemology
white ignorance
Black feminism
Black feminist epistemology
critical philosophy of race
epistemology of ignorance
epistemology of resistance
epistemology of oppression
willful ignorance

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Randolph, Benjamin

Title:

Adorno's Secularization of Hope

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Hope
Theodor W. Adorno
Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Secularization
Modernity
Jürgen Habermas
Religion

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Uygar Abaci, Major Field Member
Amy Allen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Christman, Major Field Member

Author:

Cedeno, Kevin

Title:

Embodiment and Organicism in the Moral and Political Philosophy of Anna Julia Cooper

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Anna Julia Cooper
Black Feminism
Embodied Discourse
Education
Morality
Organicism
Political Philosophy
Scrapbook
Philosophy of Race
Feminist Philosophy
Intersectionality
19th Century
Embodiment

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Committee Members:

Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Shirley Moody, Outside Field Member
Linda Alcoff, Special Member
Kathryn Belle, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Gilyard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mariana Ortega, Major Field Member

Author:

Ramos, Cynthia

Title:

From the Spatiality of Oppression and Resistance to the Decoloniality of Space

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Lugones
oppression
resistance
feminist philosophy
decolonial philosophy
space
spatiality
ontological pluralism
decoloniality

File:

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Wright, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathryn Belle, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Leon-Carlyle, Rawb

Title:

Moral Invention: Innovation, Imitation, and the Intellect in Bergson’s Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Bergson
duration
ethics
imitation
instinct
intellect
intelligence
invention
morality
personality
precariousness
sociality
vulnerability
Bergson
duration
ethics
imitation
instinct
intellect
intelligence
invention
morality
personality
precariousness
sociality
vulnerability

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Committee Members:

Sarah Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member
Nicolas De Warren, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Claire Colebrook, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Laferte-Coutu, Meredith

Title:

The Missed Encounter Between Husserl and Levinas: On the Possibility of Ethics

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Husserl
Levinas
ethics
phenomenology
responsibility
subjectivity
values

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nicolas De Warren, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member

Author:

Gary, Mercer

Title:

The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Care ethics
relational theory
feminist science and technology studies
feminist bioethics

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Major Field Member
Sarah Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ted Toadvine, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Marks, Outside Unit & Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Hil Malatino, Outside Field Member

Author:

Grimm, Erika

Title:

Linguistic Rupture, Racialization, and Resistance in Latina/x Feminisms: A Critical Phenomenological Approach

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

linguistic rupture
Latina
Latinx
feminist philosophy
philosophy of race
language
intersectionality
critical phenomenology
Continental philosophy
Anzaldua
Lugones
Ortega
Martinez
Alcoff

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Committee Members:

Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Major Field Member
Mariana Ortega, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Decker, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Clarke, Jerome

Title:

Digital Colorline: Race, Machine Learning, and the Critique of Technology

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Digital Ethics
Du Bois
Adorno
Critical Theory

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Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Young, Co-Chair of Committee
Amy Allen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Major Field Member
Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair