Graduate Students

Graduate Students

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Angel Alaniz

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Irvine (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Moral Psychology (esp. Well-being)
  • E-mail: angel.alaniz01@student.csulb.edu

Giancarlo Almerco

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Fullerton (2025)
  • Philosophical Interests: Existentialism, Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy
  • E-mail: giancarlo.almerco01@student.csulb.edu
 

Eliseo Banda

Aubrey Beller

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, Sonoma State University (2019)
  • Philosophical Interests: Political Philosophy (esp. Marxism), Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Phenomenology, Ethics
  • E-mail: aubrey.beller01@student.csulb.edu
 

Gabriel Bess

James Carmichael

  • Degrees: BA in Literature, Harvard University (2001); MBA and Honors MA in International Relations, University of Chicago (2010)
  • Philosophical Interests: Metaethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Cognitive Science (esp. Embodied Cognition)
  • E-mail: jamie.carmichael01@student.csulb.edu

Henry Chen

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics
  • E-mail: henryjinghe.chen01@student.csulb.edu

Dylan Christoffers

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics
  • E-mail: dylan.christoffers01@student.csulb.edu

Victoria Cinquegrani

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy & BA in Public Health Policy, University of California Irvine (2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Metaphysics
  • E-mail: victoria.cinquegrani01@student.csulb.edu

Christina Crain

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University San Bernardino (2023)
  • Philosophical Interests: Existentialism, Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law
  • E-mail: christina.crain01@student.csulb.edu

Lissa Dechakul

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Riverside (2018)
  • Philosophical Interests: Social Philosophy (esp. Love, Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Theory), Ethics
  • E-mail: lidechakul@gmail.com

Oliver Di Martino

  • Degrees: BS in Biology, Concordia University (2025)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Medicine, Bioethics
  • E-mail: oliver.dimartino01@student.csulb.edu

Madison Dornellas

  • Degrees: BA in Journalism, California State University Long Beach (2016)
  • Philosophical Interests: Political Philosophy, History of Political Philosophy (esp. Marx), Social Philosophy (esp. Edward Carpenter), Ethics
  • E-mail: madison.dornellas01@student.csulb.edu

Toko Dougherty

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Science, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy
  • E-mail: toko.dougherty01@student.csulb.edu

Angel Enriquez

  • Degrees: BA in Electrical Engineering, California State University of Los Angeles (2020)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Science, Applied Metaphysics
  • E-mail: angel.enriquez01@student.csulb.edu

Daniel Mangandi Escobar

  • Degrees: Honors BA in Philosophy & BA in Psychology, University of Northern Colorado (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Applied Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Social Philosophy (esp. Feminist & Queer Theory)
  • E-mail: daniel.mangandi-escobar01@student.csulb.edu

Mimi Fleischman

  • Degrees: BA in Sociology, Columbia University (1975)
  • Philosophical Interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of the Mind, Existentialism, Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Locke)
  • E-mail: mimi.fleischman01@student.csulb.edu

Beau Garcia

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Existentialism, Axiology, Ethics
  • E-mail: beau.garcia01@student.csulb.edu

Joseph Gordon

  • Degrees: BA in Political Science, University of California Berkeley (2018)
  • Philosophical Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Late Modern Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche), Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Political Philosophy
  • E-mail: joe.gordon01@student.csulb.edu

Grant Gutierrez

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2020)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • E-mail: grantngutierrez@gmail.com

Tracie Hoops

  • Degrees: BA and MA in Linguistics, California State University Fullerton (2017, 2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Pragmatism (esp. Peirce), Philosophy of Language (esp. Wittgenstein), Early Analytic Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Existentialism, Social Philosophy
  • E-mail: tracie.hoops@gmail.com

Omar Hussein

  • Degrees: BA in English and MA in Teaching, University of Southern California (2007, 2008); MA in English Literature, California State University Long Beach (2016)
  • Philosophical Interests: Logic, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
  • E-mail: omar.hussein@csulb.edu

Paige Kim

  • Degrees: BA in Liberal Studies, California State University Fullerton (2023)
  • Philosophical Interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Social Philosophy (esp. Feminist Theory), Existentialism
  • E-mail: paige.kim01@student.csulb.edu

Sung-tae Lee

  • Degrees: BS in Mathematics & BS in Industrial Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech (2011); MS in Computer Science, California State University Long Beach (2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Logic, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Existentialism
  • E-mail: Sung-tae.Lee01@student.csulb.edu

Lancy Lopez

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, Columbia University (2023)
  • Philosophical Interests: Epistemology, Metaethics, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Social Philosophy
  • E-mail: lancy.lopez01@student.csulb.edu

Hayley Mervini

  • Degrees: BA in French & BA in Cinema and Television Arts, California State University Fullerton (2025)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Language, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Social Philosophy (esp. Feminist & Queer Theory)
  • E-mail: hayley.mervini01@student.csulb.edu

Nathaniel Mines

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Epistemology (esp. Wittgenstein), Phenomenology (esp. Husserl), Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy
  • E-mail: nathaniel.mines01@student.csulb.edu

Amanda Moore

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University San Bernardino (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Aesthetics, Normative Ethics, Animal/Environmental Ethics, Existentialism, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
  • E-mail: amanda.moore01@student.csulb.edu

Isaiah Navarro

  • Degrees: Honors BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2025)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Phenomenology, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
  • E-mail: isaiah.navarro01@student.csulb.edu

El Nicklin

  • Degrees: Honors BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Locke), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language (esp. Wittgenstein), Logic
  • E-mail: el.nicklin01@student.csulb.edu

Ricardo Nieves

  • Degrees: Honors BA in Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (2023)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Language (esp. Wittgenstein), Philosophy of Science, Jurisprudence, Logic, Philosophy of Physics
  • E-mail: ricardo.nieves01@student.csulb.edu

Sarah Nolte

  • Degrees: BA in English Literature, San Jose State University (2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy (esp. Marxism), Existentialism (esp. Nietzsche), Philosophy of Language
  • E-mail: sarah.nolte01@student.csulb.edu

Miguel Contreras Ocaranza

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, San Jose State University (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Social Philosophy (esp. Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Theory) Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Language
  • E-mail: miguel.contreras-ocaranza01@student.csulb.edu

Gregory Ohmer

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (2017); MA in Spanish and Latin American Studies, New York University Madrid (2018)
  • Philosophical Interests: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Epistemology (esp. Empiricism), Aesthetics, Philosophy of Fiction
  • E-mail: gregory.ohmer01@student.csulb.edu

Abel Peña

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy & BA in English Literature, University of California Irvine (2003)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Physics (esp. Quantum Mechanics), Philosophy of Technology, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Applied Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Language
  • E-mail: abel.pena01@student.csulb.edu

Ian Pollok

  • Degrees: BA in Psychology, California State University Long Beach (2025)
  • Philosophical Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Existentialism, Social Philosophy, Metaphysics
  • E-mail: ian.pollok01@student.csulb.edu
 

Marcellus Richie

Anna Rikshpun

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Social Philosophy, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy
  • E-mail: anna.rikshpun01@student.csulb.edu

Declan McBride Roach

Manuel Rojas

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Aristotle, Medieval Philosophy (esp. Aquinas, Bonaventure), Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Descartes, Leibniz)
  • E-mail: manuel.rojas02@student.csulb.edu

Jason Rosencrantz

  • Degrees: BA in Interdisciplinary/Medieval Studies, Bard College (1994)
  • Philosophical Interests: History of Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy
  • E-mail: jason.rosencrantz01@student.csulb.edu

Liz Sato

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, International Christian University (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Hume), Philosophy of Mind (esp. Consciousness)
  • E-mail: Liz.Sato01@student.csulb.edu

Esther Sims

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, University of California San Diego (2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophical Anthropology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
  • E-mail: esther.sims01@student.csulb.edu
 

Christian Spradlin

 

Delmy Ventura

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California State University Long Beach (2021)
  • Philosophical Interests: Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Descartes), Metaethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
  • E-mail: delmy.ventura@student.csulb.edu

Nathan Wagester

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy, California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo (2022)
  • Philosophical Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Phenomenology
  • E-mail: nathan.wagester01@student.csulb.edu
 

Gabrielle Weissman

Margaret Welch

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy & BA International Studies, Baylor University (2024)
  • Philosophical Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
  • E-mail: margaret.welch01@student.csulb.edu

Allen Yang

  • Degrees: BA in Philosophy & BA in Economics, University of California Irvine (2020)
  • Philosophical Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Applied Metaphysics (esp. Philosophy of Action)
  • E-mail: allen.yang01@student.csulb.edu