Graduate Student Representatives and Committees

Each Spring the graduate students in the Philosophy Department elect two of their number to serve as Graduate Student Representatives for the following academic year.

Graduate Student Representatives 2023-24

Sebastian Liu
[email protected]

Lauren Miano
[email protected]

Duties

The Graduate Student Representatives are expected to:

  • attend department meetings where they act as liaisons between graduate students and faculty, communicating the needs of the graduate students to faculty members and participating in departmental decisions, including decisions about the graduate curriculum, on behalf of the graduate students.
  • serve on the Appointments Committee where they play a role in the hiring choices of the department.
  • solicit volunteers for departmental committees that require graduate student members, including the committee responsible for organizing the annual Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference.
  • assist in the recruitment of prospective graduate students, including initial communication about visits and arranging appointments and lodging.
  • welcome incoming graduate students by answering any questions they may have about the program, organizing orientation activities, and pairing them with older students in their areas of interest.
  • perform other responsibilities as required.

Classical Philosophy Program Graduate Student Representatives 

Each Spring the graduate students in the Classical Philosophy Program elect two of their number to serve as Graduate Student Representatives for the following academic year. The representatives for the 2023-2024 academic year are:

Che Li 
[email protected]

Giulia Weißmann 
[email protected]

Duties

The Classical Philosophy Graduate Student Representatives:

  • act as liaisons between graduate students and faculty, communicating the needs of the graduate students to faculty members
  • organize social events
  • assist in the recruitment of prospective Classical Philosophy graduate students
  • welcome incoming Classical Philosophy graduate students by answering any questions they may have about the program, organizing orientation activities, and pairing them with older students in their areas of interest
  • perform other responsibilities as required

 

Graduate Student Committees 2023-24

PhilSoc (2) Daniel Klugman, Quanzhi Liang
Social (2) Jennifer Minjarez, Varun Sikand
Course Allocation (2; Grad Reps) Sebastian Liu, Lauren Miano
Classical Philosophy Program Representatives (2) Giulia Weißmann, Che Li
Early Modern Philosophy (1) Joao Carvalho
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) (1) Megan Wicks
COMPASS (2) Yazmeen Martens, Dane Stocks
Graduate Representatives (2) Sebastian Liu, Lauren Miano
Prospectives' Visit Committee (2) Antonio Kerstenetzky, Joseph Schmid
Metaphysics-Language-Epistemology
(MLE) Reading Group (1)
Katie Carpenter
Job Market Gifts (1-2) Giulia Weißmann
Prospective Visits Gender Minority (1) Open
BIPOC Breakfasts/Meetings (1) Open
GSG Rep (1) Norah Woodcock
Outreach (4) Christopher Bottomley, Katie Carpenter

 

The Committees have no chairs.