Samuel is a Ph.D. Student in Romance Studies at Duke University. His research interests are Decoloniality, Critical Theory, and Digital Humanities.

Aurora is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in philosophy, writing a dissertation on the natural philosophies of Aristotle and Descartes. In addition, she has a project in progress on Émilie Du Châtelet’s Principle of Sufficient Reason.

Sophia is a PhD student in the Art History and Visual Studies program at Duke University. Her research examines the visual culture of euthanasia and eugenics in National Socialist Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. She currently serves as the team’s project manager for the 2023-2024 academic year.  

Faith is an undergraduate at Duke University from the sunny island of Singapore. At Duke, she is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. She is interested in comparative philosophy.

Niso is a junior at Duke majoring in International Comparative Studies with a focus in the Middle East, and is also pursuing the Philosophy, Politics & Economics certificate. He is joining the Project Vox team after returning from a semester abroad in Jerusalem.

Michael is a PhD candidate in philosophy, writing a dissertation on how the brilliant mathematician and polymath Leonhard Euler shaped physics and philosophy in the eighteenth century. When not reading Euler, he studies Émilie Du Châtelet, and is currently at work on a translation of her Dissertation on the Nature and Propagation of Fire.

Shreya Joshi is an undergraduate at Duke University majoring in History, with a minor in Cultural Anthropology. She is also a candidate for the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics certificate.

Frank Mercer IV is a sophomore at Duke University from Virginia Beach pursuing a double major in Philosophy and Economics minoring in Russian. His favorite philosophical works are Joseph Heath’s “The Benefits of Cooperation” and Simone De Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity.

Lilia Qian is an undergraduate at Duke University majoring in philosophy and economics with a minor in English. She currently works with the research team on Madame Germaine de Staël.

Mary Purcell is a master’s student in philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Her work on Project Vox includes research on Nísia Floresta.

Kelsey Brod is a multimedia artist, writer, technofeminist, and PhD candidate in Duke’s Computational Media, Arts and Cultures program. Her/their dissertation works to reframe the aesthetics, formulation, and measure of computational performance. Kelsey is currently project manager for the 2022 Story+ visualization project.

Zoé Murphy is an undergraduate student double majoring in International Comparative Studies with a focus on China and Europe and Public Policy. She is currently working on the Feasibility team.

Meredith Graham is an Associate in Research at Duke University. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating and implementing outreach and assessment for the Project Vox team and the SSHRC grant partners. She previously served as the team’s Outreach & Assessment Coordinator (2017–2019) and the Project Manager (2019–2020). Meredith graduated with her PhD in […]

Cheryl Thomas is the Librarian for Philosophy, as well as a Librarian for Research and Instruction, at Duke University Libraries. She advises Project Vox as the Duke University Librarian for Philosophy.

Will Shaw is the digital humanities consultant at Duke University Libraries. He studied English literature at Warren Wilson College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the technical lead for Project Vox.

Liz Milewicz is Head of Digital Scholarship Services at Duke University Libraries. She received her PhD in 2009 from Emory University, where she studied at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. For Project Vox, Liz works as a Project Co-Lead.

Andrew Janiak is Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of Philosophy at Duke University. He is currently working on the philosophy of Émilie Du Châtelet, whose work he also regularly teaches.