Alumni Accomplishments
Karen Seegobin
B.A. English, Spring 2008
"I'm currently doing an MSc in Comparative Politics (Nationalism & Ethnicity stream) at the London School of Economics in the UK. I just started in September and it's a 1 year program. A little while after finishing my degree at FAU I had moved to Trinidad & Tobago to attend the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine campus) to do a 1 year graduate diploma program in International Relations. In terms of relevant work experience, I have worked at the Korean embassy in Trinidad as an administrative assistant. Also, this past summer I completed an internship at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), working in the UN Volunteers Field Unit. In January I will start interning at a non-profit here in the UK, the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum (MRCF), to coincide with my studies."
Hilary Malatino
B.A. English, Spring 2005
"After graduating magna cum laude from Florida Atlantic University in 2005 with a degree in English garnered through the Multicultural and Gender Studies track, I began a combined MA/Ph.D. program in Philosophy at Binghamton University, a State University of New York. While at Binghamton, I taught courses in Philosophy, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature. In addition to teaching, I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture alongside then-director (and well-known feminist philosophy) í Lugones. I coordinated and worked as support staff for several conferences hosted at Binghamton University, and served in multiple governance positions. During the 2009-2010 academic year, the university awarded me a dissertation year fellowship that allowed me to truck on through the dissertation writing process at a rather fast clip.
During my Ph.D., I fell in love with science and technology studies and social/political philosophy, while at the same time deepening my engagements with feminist philosophy, disability studies, queer theory, critical race theory and decolonial/postcolonial thought – interests that had sparked at Florida Atlantic University while working with professors such as: Johnnie Stover, Elena Machado, Deborah Covino, Papatya Bucak, and Jane Caputi. I published several articles in philosophy, queer theory, and medical humanities while pursuing my Ph.D., and defended a dissertation on the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of medico-scientific practices of ‘fixing’ atypically sexed bodies in December of 2010.
Over the past few years, I’ve presented work at a number of professional meetings – among them, the American Philosophical Association, the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, and the Caribbean Philosophical Association. I’m currently deeply engaged in thinking about how to render philosophy a more welcoming, thought-provoking, and integral space for those people traditionally absent from or marginalized within the disicipline– economically disenfranchised folks, women, queer folks, folks of color – and often write on issues related to diversification and inclusion, asking after how to rework philosophical canons, methodologies, and pedagogies in more liberatory, coalitional, and engaged ways."
More Alumni Accomplishments to come shortly.
