People
Tenure Stream Faculty
| Photo | Name | Position | Contact | Research Areas |
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Hannah Bacon |
Assistant Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
117 Coates Hall
225-578-2380
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Contemporary and 20th-century Continental Philosophy |
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Jon Cogburn |
Professor Department Chair |
jcogbu1@lsu.edu 107 Coates 225-578-2272 |
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Deborah Goldgaber |
Associate Professor |
dgoldgaber@lsu.edu 208A Coates Hall 225-578-1043 |
Contemporary French phil., 19th-20th cen. continental, feminist phil., phenomenology |
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Anthony Kelley |
Assistant Professor |
210 Coates Hall
225-578-6311
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Theoretical and practical ethics |
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Usha Nathan | Assistant Professor |
110 Coates Hall
225-578-5508
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Ancient philosophy |
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François Raffoul |
Professor |
fraffo1@lsu.edu 106 Coates 225-578-2278 |
Contemporary continental philosophy, contemporary French thought |
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Jeffrey Roland |
Associate Professor |
jroland@lsu.edu 108 Coates 225-578-2388 |
Philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, logic |
Instructors
| Photo | Name | Position | Contact | Research Areas |
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Chris Blakley | Distinguished Instructor |
210B Coates 225-578-5158 |
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Chris Wells | Instructor |
118 Coates 225-578-0790 |
Ethics and politics in contemporary Continental philosophy, especially Emmanuel Levinas |
Affiliate Faculty
| Photo | Name | Position | Contact | Research Areas |
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Juan J. Colomina-Alminana | Assistant Professor (Affiliate) |
309 Hodges 225-578-5175 |
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Ken Levy | Associate Professor (Affiliate) |
420 Law Center 225-578-7365 |
Criminal theory, ethics, free will and responsibility, paradoxes |
| Alexander Orwin | Assistant Professor (Affiliate) |
202 Stubbs Hall 225-578-2553 |
Political theory (ancient, medieval, modern); Islamic political thought; Comparative political theory (especially Islamic and Western) | |
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John Protevi | Professor (Affiliate) |
408 Hodges 225-578-6664 |
20th century French philosophy (Foucault and Deleuze), enaction in cognitive and life science |
Emeritus Faculty
| Photo | Name | Position | Contact | Research Areas |
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Ed Henderson | Professor Emeritus & Department Chair Emeritus | ehender@lsu.edu | |
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Gregory Schufreider | Professor Emeritus | gschufr@lsu.edu | |
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Husain Sarkar | Professor Emeritus | husains@lsu.edu |
Descartes, Kant, ethics, and philosophy of science |
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Mary Sirridge | Professor Emerita | pisirr@lsu.edu |
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Philosophy M.A. Students
| Name | Office | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa Altsman | 308 Coates | maltsm1@lsu.edu |
| Gabriel Connor | 308 Coates | gconno7@lsu.edu |
| Lama Hantash | 309 Coates | lhanta2@lsu.edu |
| Christopher Johnson | 314 Coates | cjoh514@lsu.edu |
| Prat Parhi | 312 Coates | pparhi1@lsu.edu |
| Chris Rinderle | 316 Coates | crinde3@lsu.edu |
| Joshua Severud | 315 Coates | jsever5@lsu.edu |
| Mike Waldeck | 316 Coates | jwalde5@lsu.edu |
Staff
| Photo | Name | Position | Contact |
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Lisa Munson | Assistant to the Chair | lmunson@lsu.edu 102 Coates Hall 225-578-2188 |
| Kimberly Roser | Coordinator of Office Operations |
102 Coates Hall 225-578-0696 |