Mara Harrell (she/her) is a Teaching Professor of Philosophy & Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of What Is the Argument? (2016; The MIT Press)

Kathryn Petrozzo (she/her), Ph.D. is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Oakland University. In the Fall of 2025, she will be joining the Humanities Department as an Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to her appointment, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her current work is focused on the relationship between mental illness and conceptions of agency, rationality, legal responsibility, and blameworthiness. She explores these issues through the interdisciplinary scholarship on agency, rationality, and neurobiology. It is my hope to assist in reforming these concepts in order to reduce the stigma of individuals with mental illnesses as being less than agential, violent, and unpredictable. More broadly, she is interested in how the institutions of science and law interact, and how these interactions can disproportionately affect marginalized groups. The questions and concerns that arise in her research are approached from traditional and innovative methods in applied ethics (esp. bioethics), philosophy of science, law, and social philosophy.

Alex Cain (she/her) is a Teaching Specialist in the Philosophy department at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She teaches ethical theory, political philosophy, political economy and history of philosophy subjects. Her book, titled The Genius of Friendship: Understanding friendship with and beyond Hannah Arendt, is contracted to de Gruyter and has an expected publication date of 2025. This book is based on her PhD work, completed at Monash University in 2023. Alex has received awards for teaching excellence from Monash University twice, and is currently studying towards a Graduate Certificate of University Teaching at the University of Melbourne. She has coached teams in the Ethics Olympiad (the Australian equivalent of the US Ethics Bowl) for the past three years, including a team from the University of Melbourne in 2024 that placed second and a team from Monash University in 2022 that placed third. Originally from Tasmania, she now lives in Melbourne with her partner and their daughter and pets (two cats and a dog).

Yingshihan Zhu (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at CUNY, Graduate Center, where she is writing a dissertation on the moral complexities of privileged oppressed agents. Shihan works in Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, and Bioethics. She is also passionate about inclusive pedagogy and holds a graduate certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. When not doing philosophy, Shihan enjoys growing avocados, taking long walks in the woods, and writing about medical humanities on social media.

Noa (he/him) is an instructor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan, where he also earned his MA. His primary interests are in cognitive science, the philosophy of science, and their intersection, with additional interests in issues surrounding gender and race. Recently, he’s been thinking and writing about the methods of empirically-informed philosophy of cognitive science. Outside of philosophy, he dabbles in ballet and modern dance and is passionate about apes (both great and lesser).

Shannon (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary interests are in ethics and science, both in first order inquiry within these domains and in metaethics and philosophy of science. She is also drawn to philosophical questions about philosophy itself. Recently, she has been thinking about pragmatist conceptions of truth and objectivity, alternative normative concepts, the ethics of intimate relationships, and host-pathogen interactions. When she is not in front of a book or a computer, she enjoys spending time making pen and ink illustrations, hiking, cross-country skiing, dancing, and traveling.

Dr. Emily Esch (she/her) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Scholars program at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. She teaches on philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, often with a focus on race and gender. She served on the Board of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for fifteen years and is President of the Teaching Philosophy Association, which oversees the journal Teaching Philosophy. She is the founding editor of AAPT Studies in Philosophy.

Russell Marcus (he/him) is the founding director of the HCSPiP and the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Teaching Excellence at Hamilton College, where he has taught in Philosophy since 2007 and where he continues to chair the department. He specializes in philosophy of mathematics and philosophical pedagogy, and is immediate past president of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers. In addition to articles on mathematics and teaching, he has published three books: a monograph, Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument (Lexington); a co-edited reader, An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Bloomsbury); and a logic book, Introduction to Formal Logic with Philosophical Applications (Oxford University Press). He is currently writing a book on team-based learning to be published by Bloomsbury. Before coming to Hamilton College, Russell taught mathematics and computer science in public high schools in New York City; history, math, literature, and writing in a high school in Costa Rica; and mathematics and philosophy as an adjunct instructor in various community colleges and four-year schools around New York. At Hamilton, Russell teaches Logic, Modern Western Philosophy, Infinity, Philosophy of Education, and senior seminars on Wittgenstein and philosophical methods. For fun, he likes to play board games, solve all manners of puzzles, hike, watch NY Mets baseball games, and cook (and eat).

Henry (he/him) is a PhD student at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. He primarily studies ancient Greek philosophy. Recently, he’s been interested in Plato’s political thought and the role eros plays in the psychology of the philosopher king and tyrant. Along with that, he has been working on a project about the role of anthropocentrism (or lack thereof) in Aristotle’s account of teleology. To the left, you will see an image of him next to a bust of Socrates. His favorite song about Odysseus is ‘Home at Last’ by Steely Dan.

Gabrielle (she/her) is a rising senior Philosophy student at Hamilton College and was a 2024 HCSPiP Participant and Truax Research Fellow. She enjoys epistemology, literary philosophy, and logic. She especially loves application of philosophy to literary works and exploring the connection between the two. Outside of philosophy, she enjoys learning French, rock climbing, and crocheting.

Ashylia Sloane (they/she) is a rising senior at Hamilton College who is double majoring in neuroscience and philosophy, and participated in HCSPiP in 2023. They enjoy discussing ethical issues and human behavior while trying to look at all sides of any story. Their main goal is learning and understanding rather than coming to conclusions in these types of situations. Outside of the classroom, Ashylia loves to meditate and dance and will often ask others to join in when they’re doing either activity!