Faculty

Rusty Jones
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Ancient Philosophy

rustyjones@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 629

Olivia L. Branscum
Website
Assistant Professor
History of Early Modern Philosophy (mostly European), History of Metaphysics, History of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Art

olivia.l.branscum-1@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 622

Pronouns: she/her/hers/they

Brian Burkhart
Associate Professor
Native American Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Latinx Philosophy

brian.burkhart-1@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 614

Pronouns: he/him/his/they

Stephen Ellis
Associate Professor
Decision Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics

sellis@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 613

LGBTQ+ Aspiring Ally

Dara Fogel
Adjunct

dfogel@ou.edu

Adam Green
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Associate Professor
Undergraduate Liaison
Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Psychology

greenab3@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 610

Tyler Huismann
Lecturer
History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

tyler.huismann@ou.edu

Sherri Irvin
Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies
Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Race

sirvin@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 629

LGBTQ+ Aspiring Ally

Martin Montminy
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
Moral Responsibility, Metaphysics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology

montminy@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 626

Yujin Nagasawa
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Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
Professor
Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind

yujin.nagasawa@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 624

Amy Olberding
President's Associates Presidential Professor
Early Chinese Philosophy, Ethics

aolberding@ou.edu

Wayne Riggs
Professor
Graduate Liaison
Epistemology, Value Theory

wriggs@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 628

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Edward Sankowski
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Professor
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics

esankowski@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 625

Joshua Spears
Adjunct

joshua.w.spears-1@ou.edu

Zev Trachtenberg
Professor
Coordinator, Gateway to the Humanities Course
Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Political Theory, Rousseau

ztrachtenberg@ou.edu
Dale Hall Tower 627

Luke Tucker
Lecturer

luke_tucker@ou.edu

Neera Badhwar
Professor
Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, International Ethics

nbad@ou.edu

Hugh Benson
Samuel Roberts Noble Presidential Professor
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology

hbenson@ou.edu

LGBTQ+ Ally

Monte Cook
Professor
History of Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics

mcook@ou.edu

Reinaldo Elugardo
Professor
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

relugardo@ou.edu

James Hawthorne
Professor
Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Formal Logic, Artificial Intelligence

hawthorne@ou.edu

Chris Swoyer
Professor
Philosophy of Logic, History of Modern Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Dewey, Heidegger, Sellars

cswoyer@ou.edu

Linda Zagzebski
Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics Emerita
George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emerita
Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Epistemology

lzagzebski@ou.edu