Department of Philosophy

2018 Master's Cohort

2018  master's in philosophy cohort

From left: Arantxa Ortiz, Kyle Tebo, Victoria FitzPatrick, Ariadne Dubus, Ripley Stroud, Nathan Reiser, Andrew Steele, Jamie Gregora and Christian Aulenbach. Not pictured: Joshua Duquette.

The following students entered the master's in philosophy program in fall 2018:

cj aulenbach, m.a. in philosophy student
C.J. Aulenbach
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort
Course Assistant, PHIL 111a (What is Justice?)
Rabb Graduate Center 314
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:00pm - 5:00pm

C.J. Aulenbach holds an undergraduate degree in theater and philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. His main areas of interest are ethics and metaethics, and his favorite philosophers include Hume, Heidegger, Kant and Aristotle. In his spare time, C.J. does some amateur voice acting work and hopes to begin podcasting.

lia curtis-fine, class of 2017 cohort
Lia Curtis-Fine
Master's Student, 2017 Cohort
Course Assistant, PHIL 110a (Meaning In Life)
Rabb Graduate Center, 357
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lia Curtis-Fine graduated from UNC Asheville with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in psychology, focusing on cognitive science. Her main research interests are in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, early modern philosophy, and the places where these fields interact with the cognitive sciences. When she is not doing philosophy, Lia can be found cooking, reading, exercising, or watching stand-up comedy.

ariadne dubus, 2018 master's student
Ariadne Dubus
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort
Course Assistant, PHIL 17a (Intro to Ethics)
Rabb Graduate Center 228
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30am - 1:30pm

Ariadne Dubus holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy, with a minor in English, from UMass Lowell. Her primary research interests are feminist philosophy and metaphysics, specifically the study of how these two fields converge. In her spare time, she likes to work out and eat burritos.

joshua duquetts, 2018 master's student
Joshua Duquette
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort

Josh Duquette graduated from UMass Boston with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. His primary philosophical interests include the history of philosophy, Kantian epistemology/ethics, and pragmatic political philosophy. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games with his three daughters, playing card games with his friends or enjoying a local porter or stout while listening to heavy metal.

jamie gregora, 2018 master's student
Jamie Gregora
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort
Course Assistant, PHIL 110a (Meaning In Life)
Rabb Graduate Center 313
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 11:00AM to 12:00PM

Jamie Gregora graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in philosophy and a minor in Russian. Before entering graduate school, he worked in and around Washington, D.C., in journalism, and later in a congressional office. In his spare time, Jamie enjoys competitive games including chess, poker, backgammon, shogi and Go. 

nathan reiser, 2018 master's student
Nathan Reiser
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort

Nathan Reiser holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Ohio State University. He finds importance in historical philosophical texts, but is drawn by contemporary philosophical debate.

andrew steele, 2018 master's student
Andrew Steele
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort
Course Assistant, LING 130a (Formal Semantics: Truth, Meaning and Language)
Rabb Graduate Center 228

Andrew Steele earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy and mathematics from New College of Florida. A lover of history, including the history of science and the history of philosophy, he would one day like to work in the field of analytic philosophy of history. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys cooking, reading (including French books) playing and listening to music, and watching movies.

ripley stroud, 2018 master's student
Ripley Stroud
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort
Course Assistant, PHIL 107b (Kant's Moral Theory) and PHIL 110a (Meaning of Life))
Rabb Graduate Center, 357
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed., 1pm - 2pm

Ripley Stroud earned her undergraduate degree in liberal arts and sciences from St. John's College in Maryland. Her philosophical interests include moral psychology and epistemology, using historical philosophers as a touchstone to explore these questions. Her non-philosophical interests include; rock climbing; coffee, the making of; and traveling.

kyle tebo, 2018 master's students
Kyle Tebo
Master's Student, 2018 Cohort

Kyle Tebo holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. His academic interests revolve around topics in ethics and epistemology, in particular Aristotelian approaches to moral naturalism.