PPI Community

Here you can meet current and past PPI students, as well as faculty and public philosophy exemplars who have supported our community and can offer support to folks interested in public philosophy! Anyone can use our network to find folks working on similar issues and reach out!

Current Students and Alumni (Coming soon!)

  • Jun Choi

    PPI ALUMNI AND CERTIFICATE RECIPIENT, 2022-2023

    Virtue epistemology and the intersection of feeling and perception, Law

    junwnchoi@gmail.com - 6097602344

  • Laura Santer

    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CERTIFICATE AWARDEE 2023, 2024

    2nd Year PhD Student, Philosophy, BC

    enviromental ethics, nonhuman ethics, management of public parks/spaces

    santer@bc.edu

  • Michaila Peters

    FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

    4th Year PhD Student, Philosophy, BC

    Feminist Perspectives of Rural Poverty & Political Extremism/Polarization

    CBPR, Policy, Ethnography/Sociology, Complexity Theory

    petersxg@bc.edu

    michailapeters.com

  • Michael Deutsch

    PPI ALUMNI AND CERTIFICATE RECIPIENT, 2022-2024

    Virtue Ethics, P4C

  • Amy Jilek

    GRANT WRITING SUPPORT, PPI ALUMNI AND CERTIFICATE RECIPIENT, 2022-2024

    Philosophical Fiction

  • Will Watkins

    PPI ALUMNI AND CERTIFICATE RECIPIENT, 2023-2024

    Ethics of Technology/AI

Faculty and Exemplar Support Network (Under Construction)

  • Dana Francisco Miranda

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Faculty Fellow for the Applied Ethics Center

    Political Belonging, Social Movements, Monuments, Phenomenology, Decolonial Studies

    Email: Dana.Miranda@umb.edu; Website: https://www.danafmiranda.com/

  • Ayanna Maddox

    Anti-Violence Survivor-Scholar-Advocate I Senior Director of Impact at Girls for Gender Equity (GGE)

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayanna-maddox-phd-24501163/

  • Ian Olasov

    President, Public Philosophy Network / Adjunct Professor, New York University

    Language, event planning, writing and speaking for a general audience

    ianolasov@gmail.com

  • Gregory Fried

    Gregory Fried

    Faculty Advisor to PPI, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Director of Philosophy, Law, Policy (PLP) MA Program

    Public-facing media; engaged ethics; service-learning; digital humanities

    gregory.fried@bc.edu

  • Joel Reynolds

    Associate Professor | Director of the Disability Studies Program, Georgetown University

    Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

  • Jim Morley

    Professor of Clinical Psychology

    Applied Phenomenology, Phenomenological Qualitative Research

  • Nancy Bauer

    Philosophy Professor, Tufts University

    Feminist Philosophy, Journalism, Public-Facing Writing, Activism, Higher Ed Administration

  • Nir Eisikovits

    Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston, Founding Director of Applied Ethics Center

    Transitional Justice and Post War Reconstruction, Ethics of War, Ethics of Technology Op-Ed Writing,

  • Derek Gottlieb

    Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado School of Teacher Education

    Philosophy of Education, Democratic Theory, Philosophical Podcasting

    Host of Thinking in the Midst