Faculty

Kristina Meshelski

Department Chair / Professor

• Ph.D. University of Virginia
• Office: Sierra Tower 518
• Email: kristina.meshelski@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-2752
• Interests: Political Philosophy (including issues of race, gender, and sexuality), Spinoza
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/kristina-meshelski
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam

Associate Professor (Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies and Dept. of Philosophy)

• Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
• Office: Education Administration 100
• Email: sindhuja.bhakthavatsalam@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-7022
• Interests: Philosophy of Science, Science Education
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/sindhuja-bhakthavatsalam
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Tim Black

Professor

• Ph.D. University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Office: Sierra Tower 516
• Email: tim.black@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-7205
• Interests: Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-black | https://csun.academia.edu/TimBlack
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Johnathan Flowers

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Office: Sierra Tower 534
• Email: Johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-5806
• Interests: American Pragmatism, East-Asian Philosophy, Philosophy of Disability, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Technology, Aesthetics
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/johnathan-flowers
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Abel Franco

Professor

• Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
  Ph.D. University of Salamanca
• Office: Sierra Tower 504
• Email: abel.franco@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-7501
• Interests: History of Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Mind
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/abel-b-franco

Robert Gressis

Professor

• Ph.D. University of Michigan
• Office: Sierra Tower 527
• Email: robert.gressis@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-4854
• Interests: Kant, Philosophy of Religion, Moral Psychology, Free Will
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/robert-gressis

C. Jacob Hale

Professor

• Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Office: Sierra Tower 526
• Email: jacob.hale@csun.edu
  Phone: 818-677-7202
• Interests: Interdisciplinary Transgender, Queer and Feminist Studies, Philosophy of Mathematics
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Sid Hansen

Associate Professor

• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
• Office: Sierra Tower 508
• Email: sid.hansen@csun.edu 
  Phone: 818-677-4853
• Interests: Feminist Theory, Bioethics, Continental Philosophy
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/sid-hansen
• Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Robin M. Muller

Associate Chair / Associate Professor

• Ph.D. The New School for Social Research
• Office: Sierra Tower 506
• Email: robin.muller@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-3579
• Interests: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy and the Human Sciences, Philosophy of Race
• Publications: https://csun.academia.edu/RobinMuller | https://philpeople.org/profiles/robin-m-muller
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Adam Swenson

Professor

• Ph.D. Rutgers University
• Office: Sierra Tower 504
• Email: adam.swenson@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-2750
• Interests: Ethics, Philosophical issues concerning pain and pain medicine, Philosophy of Mind
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/adam-r-swenson
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Weimin Sun

Professor

• Ph.D. University of Connecticut
• Office: Sierra Tower 505
• Email: weimin.sun@csun.edu
  Phone: 818-677-6461
• Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Biology, Chinese Philosophy
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/weimin-sun
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Gregory Velazco y Trianosky

Professor

• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Office: Sierra Tower 520
• Email: gregory.trianosky@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-6462
• Interests: History and Philosophy of Race, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/gregory-velazco-y-trianosky
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Takashi Yagisawa

Professor

• Ph.D. Princeton University
• Office: Sierra Tower 530
• Email: takashi.yagisawa@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-2756
• Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/takashi-yagisawa
• Website: http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/

Julie Yoo

Professor

• Ph.D. Rutgers University
• Office: Sierra Tower 514
• Email: julie.yoo@csun.edu
• Phone: 818-677-5808
• Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
• Publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/julie-yoo
• Pronouns: she/her/hers