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Jin Y. Park is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religion at American University. She also served as Founding Director of Asian Studies Program from 2013-2020. Park specializes in East …
I graduated from UConn in May 2022 and am a graduate student in the School of Public Affairs, pursing my Master's in Public Administration. I hope to work in nonprofits upon finishing my education. As…
Full Time Faculty - September 2022
Faculty by area of specialization:
Johnathan Flowers
Onaje Woodbine
Gershon Greenberg
Amy Oliver
Johnathan Flowers
Onaje Woodbine
Shubha Pathak
Gershorn Greenberg
Joel Daniels
Joseph Harroff
Jin Y. Park
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Shatha Almutawa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University. Almutawa’s research interests are Islamic intellectual history, Islamic philosophy, postcolonialism, literary …
I joined the community at AU in the fall of 2013. I am currently a Professorial Lecturer and have taught several courses that have focused on ethical theories and issues. I also help co-organize the D…
Nicholas Buck teaches and writes broadly on matters of ethics, religion, and politics. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of religious studies and moral and political philosophy, a…
Kelso Cratsley teaches courses in bioethics, neuroethics, and logic, and his research focuses on issues in, and often at the intersection of, bioethics, mental health, and global health. He has previo…
I joined the AU community in 2005. My teaching and research are focused on democratic theory, globalization, exile, existentialism and aesthetics, particularly philosophy of film.
Ellen K. Feder is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Social Policy. She works at the intersection of contemporary continental philosophy and feminist and critical race theory, par…
I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. As a researcher, I work to present counternarratives to what Hilde Lindeman Nelson calls “master narratives.” Master narratives are co…
Gershon Greenberg is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and r…
I am a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy & Religion. Before arriving at American University, I taught at Hunter College (City University of New York) and Fordham University. I have…
Joseph Harroff teaches philosophy and religion. His primary research interests are in the field of intercultural comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy, American pragmatism, and methods of philoso…
Nabina Liebow (she/her) is the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership and Ethical Development Program Director (CAS LEAD) and a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Her…
Professor Oliver's teaching and research on Latin America explore philosophical topics such as marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo. She works on the Hispanic ess…
Shubha Pathak is a historian of religions who interprets epic myths from Greece, India, and Rome. In addition to teaching courses on intersections of religion, philosophy, and politics in classical an…
I am a Professorial Lecturer at American University, where I teach classes in the history of philosophy, ethics, and politics. In my philosophical research I work primarily in continental philosophy, …
Yunwoo Song specializes in Chinese philosophy, with added focus on Confucianism and natural philosophy. His research focuses on the conceptions of the universe, problems of determinism, free will, and…
Delio Vásquez is a Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. He holds a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz with concentratio…
I joined the American University faculty in 2008, and have been teaching courses in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, gender studies, and feminist theory. My philosophical research focus…
Dr. Woodbine’s research explores the varieties of black religious experience, especially as they are lived on the margins of power and outside the bounds of established institutional authority. His mo…
Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies. He researches primarily in political phil…
Roshan Abraham (he/him/his) holds a PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to his current position at AU, Roshan was an Assistant Professor of Classics and Religio…
Erik Cooke (he/they) has worked in the disability, aging, anti-hunger, and international development fields for more than 20 years. Currently, they direct grant and business development for Easterseal…
Jerome Copulsky is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, specializing in modern Western religious thought, political theory, and church/state issues. His scholar…
Martina Ferrari is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon specializing in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy (esp. phenomenology), feminist philosophy, and decolonial…
My primary research interests lie at the intersection of metaethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of the cognitive and social sciences. My research focuses on the connection bet…
Sooil-Pascal Kim graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the field of Buddhist Studies (ABD) and the Academy of Korean Studies (PhD). His areas of interest include Yogacara Buddhism and …
The Reverend Bryant M. Oskvig, an ordained elder of the United Methodist Church, has been working on university campuses since 2006. Rev. Oskvig received his Master of Divinity from Boston University,…
Carrie Peffley holds graduate degress from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Her main areas of interest are history of philosophy and ethics…
Tereza Sarkisyan was born in Queens, New York and received her double Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and Philosophy from Florida Atlantic University in 2016. She went on to receive her Master…
Andrew D. Thrasher is an adjunct instructor of religious studies who specializes in teaching Asian and comparative religion. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis at the University of Birmingha…
Professor Sha is the author of three books, the latest of which is Imagination and Science in Romanticism (Johns Hopkins, 2018). This book won the 2018 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the best book p…
Please contact at jreiman@american.edu.Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Social Policy. He was born in Brookl…