Meet our Staff
Our team brings Ex Animo to life with our passion for philosophy and dedication to its perturbable future.
Ex Animo Staff Members
José Alfredo Ortiz-Angeles
Editor-in-Chief
Meet José
Majors: Philosophy and Romance Languages
Minor: European Studies
Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Plato), Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Spinoza and Descartes), and Foucault
Steven Brence, Ph.D.
Faculty Advisor
Meet Dr. Brence
Senior Instructor of Philosophy; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Film
Zero Berg
Managing Editor
Meet Zero
Majors: Philosophy and Cinema Studies
Minor: German and Scandinavian Studies
Interests: Existentialism, Animal Ethics, Epistemology
Fun Fact: I am a rescue scuba diver!
Torin Harte
Associate Editor
Meet Torin
Majors: Philosophy and Mathematics
Interests: Metaphysics (esp. the problem of free will), Orwell
Luke Currie
Graduate Advisor
Meet Luke
Major: Philosophy
Minor: Ancient Greek
Interests: Nietzsche, Existentialism, Ontology, Heidegger, Hermeneutics, Aphorists
Jessica Gladis
Editorial Board Member
Meet Jessica
Major: Environmental Science
Minor: Philosophy
Interests: Environmental hermeneutics and phenomenology,
social and political theory (specifically the Frankfurt school),
moral agency, and ontology.
Aaron Georis
Editorial Board Member
Meet Aaron
Majors: Philosophy and Political Science
Minors: English
Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Phenomenology,
Ethical Philosophy,
Feminism and Care Ethics,
Philosophy in Literature
Madeleine Moreland
Editorial Board Member
Meet Madeleine
Major: Psychology
Minor: Philosophy
Interests: Animal ethics, feminism, philosophy of technology and artificial intelligence, social philosophy, queer theory, existentialism, phenomenology, ontology, philosophical cosmology, and philosophy in literature and poetry.
