Faculty Fellows
Mark Schroeder
Mark Schroeder is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He has taught at USC for seventeen years, teaching both undergraduates and graduate students.
Mark has wide philosophical interests, but right now he is working on a book about conflict in interpersonal relationships, and about what that can tell us about what makes persons like us different from mere things.
Robin Jeshion
Robin Jeshion is a professor at USC who does research at the intersections of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. She works on the semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistic properties of slurs and other pejoratives, and how their use impacts our psychologies and social relationships. One of the most important ideas that inspires her research is that slurs function as linguistic tools of dehumanization. She seeks to explain how they do so, and why it matters.
Shieva Kleinschmidt
Shieva Kleinschmidt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. She has been at USC since 2010. Her research is primarily in Metaphysics (especially mereology and location) and Philosophy of Religion (especially atheistic prayer). She is working on a paper exploring how we might give a general account of abuse of a person.
Jake Monaghan
Jake Monaghan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His research is in political philosophy, with a focus on the justice of policing and criminal legal systems. He is especially interested in the kinds of small scale interpersonal and group conflicts that have traditionally given rise to the amateur or professional police, and in figuring out how we ought to institutionalize the social control needed to justly resolve those conflicts.
Marcela Prieto
Marcela Prieto is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Her research focuses on public international law and moral philosophy. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between the laws of armed conflict and the ethics of killing in war. She is also interested in transitional justice issues, as a result of her experience prosecuting war crimes committed during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Jonathan Quong
Jonathan Quong is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His work ranges widely over normative ethics and political philosophy, including the morality of self-defense, just war theory, political liberalism, and public reason theory - all topics that are centrally concerned with how we get along.
Collis Tahzib
Collis Tahzib is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on issues in liberal theory, including the implications for political philosophy of the fact of reasonable disagreement within contemporary liberal-democratic societies.