Ryan Davis is a PhD candidate in Philosophy. He is interested in trying to answer two questions: Why is it morally important to respect other persons? And, what counts as respecting another person? His prior work has considered the ethics of political participation, global distributive justice, and the value of autonomy.... Read more about Ryan Davis

Philippa Hetherington is a PhD candidate in History, with a secondary doctoral field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her dissertation examines the intersection of sexual and migratory politics in late imperial and early Soviet Russia, as manifested in campaigns against the transnational crime of 'trafficking in women' in the period.... Read more about Philippa Hetherington

Charles H. T. Lesch is a PhD Candidate in Government, with broad interests in the tensions between ethics and politics, political violence, micro-politics, the philosophy of history and memory, and role of religious categories in our political and social thinking. His dissertation investigates the sources of social solidarity in diverse societies, drawing from social and political theory, moral psychology, Continental philosophy, and theories of civil society to ask how citizens become alert to everyday injustices and take moral responsibility for one another.... Read more about Charles Lesch