Graduate Student Directory

Baird Point and Lake La Salle at dusk (the blue hour) on North Campus in the fall of 2018. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Academic Year 2024-2025

The UB Department of Philosophy is pleased to present on this page
the current directory listing of our graduate students.

To update your directory listing, please contact: 

Jisoo Seo, GPA President, jisooseo@buffalo.edu
       —or—
Donna Smith, Department Administrator, donnaobe@buffalo.edu

Directory Listing of Current Graduate Students

ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY LAST NAME

Updated October 8, 2024

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Portrait forthcoming

Claire Allen
MA Program

callen7@buffalo.edu

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Portrait forthcoming

Alexander Anderson, BA, MA, Philosophy, Franciscan 猛料视频 of Steubenville
asa22@buffalo.edu

Interests: Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Metaphysics

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Portrait forthcoming

Michael Behun
MA Program

behun@buffalo.edu

Carter-Beau Benson.

Carter-Beau Benson

Carter-Beau Benson, BA, 猛料视频
carterbe@buffalo.edu
Interests: Bioethics and Pluralism

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Portrait forthcoming

Michael Bortner
MA Program

msbortne@buffalo.edu

Jaron Cheung.

Jaron Cheung

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

Giacomo DeColle.

Giacomo DeColle

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

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Portrait forthcoming

Thomas Dias
MA Program

tjdias@buffalo.edu

Botan Dolun.

Botan Dolun

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


Award: Social Impact Fellowship (2023), CAS, 猛料视频

Federico Donato.

Federico Donato

Federico Donato, BA, Philosophy, State 猛料视频 of Milan, Italy; 
MA, Philosophy, Catholic 猛料视频 of Milan, Italy
fdonato@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysics, Applied Ontology

Emily Heydon.

Emily Heydon

Emily Heydon, BA, Philosophy and Environmental Sciences, 猛料视频 of Notre Dame
eaheydon@buffalo.edu

Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Game Theory

Award: Schomburg Fellowship (2023), Graduate School, 猛料视频

Katrina Johnson.

Katrina Johnson

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

Awards:
Adam Smith Fellowship (2024) Mercatus
Social Impact Fellowship (2023), CAS, 猛料视频

Matthew Jones.

Matthew Jones

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

 

Sean Kermath.

Sean Kermath

Sean Kermath, BA, Philosophy, 猛料视频 of Michigan, MA, Philosophy, Western Michigan 猛料视频
seankerm@buffalo.edu
Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics

Noah Kim.

Noah Kim

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

Award: Social Impact Fellowship (2023), CAS, 猛料视频

Sean Kindya.

Sean Kindya

Sean Kindya, BA, Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton
skindya@buffalo.edu
Interests: Metaphysics, Logic, Epistemology

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Portrait forthcoming

Jeremy Knox
MA Program

jeremykn@buffalo.edu

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Portrait forthcoming

Robert Krieter
MA Program 

Austin Liebers.

Austin Liebers

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

Brandon Long.

Brandon Long

Brandon Long, PhD student, BA , Biology MS, and Philosophy MA , Bowling Green State 猛料视频
blong3@buffalo.edu

Interests: Brandon is interested in the intersection of PPE and Bioethics. He explores how deliberative democratic governance can provide valuable insights into the ethics and governance of research and clinical practices.

Jon McLellan.

Jon McLellan

Jon McLellan, PhD Student, Philosophy and Applied Ontology
BA, Philosophy, 猛料视频
jonmclel@buffalo.edu

Jon serves as the chief executive officer and co-founder of ProseWrite LLC where he leads in development and strategic direction. He has experience in ontology development, data science, and artificial intelligence. 

Interests: Ethics, Ethical AI development and Governance.

Joshua Merlo.

Joshua Merlo

Joshua Merlo, BA, MA, Franciscan 猛料视频 of Steubenville, MA 猛料视频
jmerlo@buffalo.edu

Interests: History of Philosophy (Medieval and Modern), Philosophy of Religion

ElenaMilivinti.

Elena Milivinti

Elena Milivinti
PhD Program

emilivin@buffalo.edu

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Portrait forthcoming

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

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Portrait forthcoming

Andrew Pfeuffer, BA LaRoche College; MA Franciscan 猛料视频 of Steubenville
ajpfeuff@buffalo.edu

Interests: Kant, Rationalism, Modern Philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, and Philosophy of Science

Jisoo Seo.

Jisoo Seo

Jisoo Seo,  BA, MA, Philosophy, Yonsei 猛料视频, Korea
jisooseo@buffalo.edu
Interests: Applied Ontology, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics

Gloria Sanso.

Gloria Sanso

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

Jonathan Vajda.

Jonathan Vajda

Jonathan Vajda, BA, Psychology and Philosophy, Central Michigan 猛料视频; MA, Religion, Westminster Theological Seminary; MA, Philosophy, Western Michigan
jvajda@buffalo.edu

Interests: Early Modern, Metaphysics, Ethics


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Portrait forthcoming

Vi Vonderhaar, BA, New York 猛料视频; MA , 猛料视频 of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
jvonderh@buffalo.edu

Interests: Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Finn Wilson.

Finn Wilson

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

Jieming Yu.

Jieming Yu

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