Please Join Us in Welcoming Our New PhD Students
William "Grey" Cashwell
TA - PHI 108.31 Logical and Critical Reasoning
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2025
MA, Philosophy, (History of Philosophy), American University, 2023-2025
BA, Philosophy, BA, English, Christopher Newport University, 2019-2023
Areas of interest: Phenomenology, especially the works of Husserl and Heidegger; philosophy
of religion, especially Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, and Confucianism; consequentialist
ethics; meditation traditions and innovations.
Anya Galperin
TA - PHI 108.30 Logical and Critical Reasoning
PhD, Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2025-
MA, Philosophy, Kent State University, 2023 - 2025
MA, Comparative Literature & Language, New York University, 2020 - 2021
BA, Comparative Literature & Language (Minor in Philosophy), New York University,
2018 - 2020
Areas of interest: Aesthetics; Ancient Philosophy (esp. Aristotle; Plato; Neoplatonism);
St. Catherine of Siena; Classical and Contemporary Phenomenology; Existentialism;
The Kyoto School; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy of Religion (esp. Medieval
Religion and Phenomenology of Mysticism); Psychoanalysis; Zen Buddhism
My interests span across a variety of traditions and time periods. My scholarly commitments are directed at exploring questions related to the religious experience, the body, spatiality, and the possibility of expressing certain truths (e.g.: loss, alienation, pain, negation, transcendence) across mediums, languages, and disciplines. I am particularly curious about where philosophy intersects with literature and the arts (including dance/performance, music, and painting).
Jackson Hawkins
TA - PHI 105.01 Politics and Society
PhD, Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2025-
BA, Brigham Young University, 2019-2025
Areas of interest: My current interests center on 20th century French philosophy and
the tradition of thought sometimes called 'post-phenomenology' which was pioneered
during this period. Accordingly, my main figures of interest are Emmanuel Levinas
and Jacques Derrida (especially the later work of both thinkers). In addition to this,
I take a keen interest in anglophone social/political philosophy, including topics
such as the epistemology of testimony.
I love animals, writing, and watching bad movies just to make fun of them.
Carly Johnson
TA - PHI 105.01 Politics and Society
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2025 -
BA, Philosophy, American University, 2019-2023
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, American University, 2019-2023
Areas of interest: Phenomenology (esp. Heidegger and Husserl concerning philosophy
of time); Ancient Greek (esp. Aristotle); Philosophy of Technology; Critical Theory;
Political Theory.
I am interested in exploring the implications of contemporary technologies on the structures of our everyday mode(s) of being using Heideggerian analysis and critical theory.
Sam Summers
TA - PHI 108.31 Logical and Critical Reasoning
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2025 -
MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2025
BA, Philosophy, West Virginia University, 2023
Areas of interest: 19 th and 20 th Century continental philosophy (esp. phenomenology,
critical theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction); speculative metaphysics and
ontology; alterity, sameness, and relationality; meaning and sense; theories of world;
social and political philosophy; semiotics; psychoanalysis