Department Chair
(Ph.D., Oklahoma)
Associate Professor; Ancient Greek Philosophy
Office: Dale Hall Tower 629
Email: rustyjones@ou.edu
Faculty
Current Faculty
(Ph.D., Columbia)
Assistant Professor; History of Early Modern Philosophy (mostly European), History of Metaphysics, History of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Art
Pronouns: she/her/hers/they
Office: Dale Hall Tower 622
Email: Olivia.L.Branscum-1@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Indiana)
Associate Professor; Native American Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Latinx Philosophy
Pronouns: he/him/his/they
Office: Dale Hall Tower 614
Email: Brian.Burkhart-1@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Rutgers)
Associate Professor and Graduate Liaison; Decision Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics
LGBTQ+ Aspiring Ally
Office: Dale Hall Tower 613
Email: sellis@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Saint Louis)
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Liaison; Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Psychology
Office: Dale Hall Tower 610
Email: greenab3@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Colorado)
Visiting Instructor; History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
Office: Online
Email: tyler.huismann@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Princeton)
Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate College; Aesthetics, Philosophy of Race
LGBTQ+ Aspiring Ally
Office: Robertson Hall 213
Email: sirvin@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Texas)
Associate Professor; Metaphysics, Action Theory, Philosophical Theology
Office: Dale Hall Tower 618
Email: neal.judisch@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Montreal)
Professor; Graduate Admissions; Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Office: Dale Hall Tower 626
Email: montminy@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Australian National University)
Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind
Office: Dale Hall Tower 624
Email: yujin.nagasawa@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Hawai'i)
President's Associates Presidential Professor; Early Chinese Philosophy, Ethics
Office: Dale Hall Tower 617
Email: aolberding@ou.edu
(Ph.D., North Carolina)
Professor; Epistemology, Value Theory
LGBTQ+ Aspiring Ally 2.0, OU Green Zone, OUR Voice Active Bystander/Not On OUR Campus
Office: Dale Hall Tower 628
Email: wriggs@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Cornell)
Professor; Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics
Office: Dale Hall Tower 625
Email: esankowski@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Columbia)
Director of the Environmental Studies Department; Professor; Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Political Theory, Rousseau
Office: Dale Hall Tower 627
Email: ztrachtenberg@ou.edu
Affiliate Faculty
(Ph.D., Kansas)
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Race, Gender
LGBTQ+ Ally
Email: alavi@ou.edu
Greg Heiser
(Ph.D., Penn State; J.D., Oklahoma)
Affiliate Faculty; Associate Provost and Director of Academic Integrity Programs; Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics, Continental Philosophy
Email: gheiser@ou.edu
Retired Faculty
(Ph.D., Toronto)
Professor Emerita; Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, International Ethics
Email: nbad@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Michigan)
Professor Emeritus; George Lynn Cross Research Professor; Samuel Roberts Noble Presidential Professor; Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology.
LGBTQ Ally
Email: hbenson@ou.edu
Reinaldo Elugardo
(Ph.D., Western Ontario)
Professor Emeritus; Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Email: relugardo@ou.edu
(Ph.D., Minnesota)
Professor Emeritus; Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Formal Logic, Artificial Intelligence
Email: hawthorne@ou.edu
Kenneth R. Merrill
(Deceased)
(Ph.D., Northwestern)
Professor Emeritus; History of Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Whitehead
(Ph.D., Minnesota)
Professor Emeritus & Affiliated Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science; Twentieth-Century Cultural, Intellectual and Political Thought, Philosophy of Logic; History of Modern Philosophy; Wittgenstein, Dewey, Heidegger, Sellars
Email: cswoyer@ou.edu
(Ph.D., UCLA)
Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics Emerita; George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emerita; Graduate Liaison; Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Epistemology
Email: lzagzebski@ou.edu
