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Evan Berry

Evan Berry

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Assistant Professor

Professor Berry’s scholarship focuses on the interplay between religion and nature in modern western culture. Trained in both the sociology of religion and the philosophy of religion, his most recent research, part of an interdisciplinary collaborati... [More]

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Farhang Erfani

Farhang Erfani

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Assistant Professor

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.

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202-885-2206
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Ellen Feder

Ellen Feder

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Department Chair, Philosophy and Religion

Ellen K. Feder works at the intersection of contemporary continental philosophy and feminist and critical race theory, particularly as these relate to matters of social policy. Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender applies Foucault's method to... [More]

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202-885-2931
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David Gougelet

David Gougelet

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Assistant Professor

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202-885-2962
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Gershon Greenberg

Gershon Greenberg

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Professor

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 religious responses through the Holocaust. He has s... [More]

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202-885-2912
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Shelley Harshe

Shelley Harshe

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Senior Administrative Assistant

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202-885-2925
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Kimberly Leighton

Kimberly Leighton

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Assistant Professor

Kim Leighton was raised in the Boston area, and has spent much of her life in New York and Western Mass. She spent her junior year abroad studying at Oxford University. After finishing her dissertation in philosophy on understandings of self-knowledg... [More]

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202-885-2415
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Amy Oliver

Amy Oliver

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Associate Professor

Professor Oliver's teaching and research on Latin America explore philosophical topics such as marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo. She works on the Hispanic essay of ideas and Latin American narrative. She has lived in Mexico, A... [More]

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202-885-2140
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Jin Park

Jin Park

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Associate Professor

Jin Y. Park specializes in Buddhist philosophy, postmodernism, deconstruction, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist-postmodern comparative philosophy, and Buddhist encounter with modernity in Korea. Park’s research in Buddhism focuses on the Zen and Huayan scho... [More]

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202-885-2919
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Shubha Pathak

Shubha Pathak

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Assistant Professor

Shubha Pathak is a historian of religions who specializes in the mythological literatures of ancient India, Greece, and Rome. In addition to offering courses on philosophies of art, Asian religions, Hinduism, and comparative mythology, she is researc... [More]

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202-885-2957
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Jeffrey Reiman

Jeffrey Reiman

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Professor

Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942. After receiving his PhD, he joined the American University faculty in 1970, in the Center for the Administration of Justice (now called... [More]

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202-885-2927
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Andrea Tschemplik

Andrea Tschemplik

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Associate Professor

I came to American University in 2001 and have been teaching a variety of courses in the History of Philosophy, as well as thematic courses such as the Philosophy of Love and Friendship. My primary scholarly interest is in Ancient Philosophy, where ... [More]

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202-885-2921


Lauren Weis

Lauren Weis

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Assistant Professor

I joined the American University faculty in 2008, and have been teaching courses in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and feminist theory.  My philosophical research focuses on critiques of the Western metaphysical traditio... [More]

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202-885-2926
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Part-Time Faculty

Leila Berner

Leila Berner

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Scholar in Residence

A Fulbright scholar, Rabbi Leila Gal Berner, PhD, has spent expensive time in Spain researching Jews during the Spanish Reconquista.Ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Berner currently serves Kol Ami: The Northern Virginia Rec... [More]

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301-984-4022


Rebecca Carr

Rebecca Carr

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Scholar in Residence

Rebecca Carr is Scholar-in-Residence. She teaches courses in American philosophy, moral philosophy, and logic.



Marcos Cocoves

Marcos Cocoves

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Scholar in Residence

Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves is a Scholar-in-Residence.

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202-885-8923


Francis Raven

Francis Raven

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Lecturer



Prabhavati Reddy

Prabhavati Reddy

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Professorial Lecturer



Tatiana Romanovskaya

Tatiana Romanovskaya

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Professorial Lecturer



Niel Rosen

Niel Rosen

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Scholar in Residence



Mark Schaefer

Mark Schaefer

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Lecturer

Mark was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Center Brunswick, New York, near Albany.  He earned degrees in Russian Language and Literature from the State University of New York at Albany before moving to Washington to atten... [More]

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202-885-3304
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James Stam

James Stam

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Scholar in Residence

James Stam is Scholar-in-Residence.

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