About

Our founding members met at Indiana University, where we studied Critical Action Theory related to ethnographic studies in education. But we found our common interests extended past empirical ethnography and were, in fact, about recognition.

Recognition studies are a field started by Jürgen Habermas. Still, we find inspiration in G.W.F. Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Gillian Rose, Jacques Derrida, Robert Brandom, and our mentors and contributing members Phil Carspecken and Barbara Dennis - among many others.

  • Founding Member

    My research work with international graduate students instantiates the underlying intersubjective structure of human identity and self-development.

    As an inquiry methodology, I’m interested in three levels of knowledge construction through research practice: identifying, performing, and theorizing research. .

  • Director of Research

    I specialize in the philosophy of mathematics and language.

  • Director of Philosophical Inquiry

    I specialize in German Idealism, contemporary continental philosophy, and philosophy of language. I also have research interests in the Kyoto School.

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