Undergraduate Departmental Representatives
Undergraduate departmental representatives are responsible for opening avenues of communication between undergraduates and departmental faculty.
They also provide academic and career information to majors, minors and prospective students; organize meetings and information sessions on topics related to the program; disseminate information on current department events and activities; and serve as ambassadors for the department at university-wide events such as admitted students day and the academic fair.
2025-26 UDRs
Zach is a junior from New Jersey studying philosophy and physics, with minors in politics and mathematics. Within philosophy, he is passionate about the concept of justice and its relation to leadership and education. He is also interested in the purpose of science and what meaning we can draw from its discoveries. On campus, he works on physics research projects and is an editor of Simplicter, Brandeis’s undergraduate philosophy journal. Outside of school, Zach enjoys going for runs, reading cliché inspirational books, and general pondering.
Hi, I’m Liam! I’m a Junior from Minnesota majoring in Math and Philosophy with a minor in Hebrew. One fun philosophy fun fact about me is that over the summer, I visited the Kafka Museum in Prague.
Jacob is a Junior majoring in philosophy and minoring in history of ideas. He is interested in normative philosophy, including issues of justice and injustice, ethical motivation, and action theory. Outside of class, he is the president of Simpliciter, the Brandeis undergraduate philosophy journal, as well as the treasurer and a captain of the Brandeis University Mock Trial Association. In his free time he enjoys reading fantasy novels and playing TTRPGs. Jacob is always interested to have a philosophical discussion or answer any questions about philosophy at Brandeis, and encourages people to reach out to him.