Jeffrey Colgan, Tulane University

Jeffrey Colgan

PhD Student
jcolgan@tulane.edu
Newcomb 107

Education

City University of New York, Graduate Center (2020–2021)
MA, University of Chicago (2016)
BA, St. John’s College (2011)

Biography

Academic Interests

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Post Kantian European Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein)
  • Asian Philosophy (esp. Buddhist Philosophy)

Publications

  • “The Comstock Apparatus” in M. Canaday, N. Cott, and R. Self (eds.): Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History. The University of Chicago Press (2021). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier and Whitney Strub.
  • “Review: Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge by Jeffrey Escoffier.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2021).
  • “The End of the Downtown Scene: Review of I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going by Peter McGough.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2020). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.
  • “Desire & Documentary in the Photography of Alvin Baltrop.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019).
  • “Rough Paradise: Sex, Art, and Economic Crisis on the NYC Waterfront.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.
  • “Art’s Great Good Place? Warhol’s Silver Factory and Its Legacy.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019).
  • “Cutting Up the City in Crisis: Gordon Matta-Clark and Urban Commons.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018).
  • “Relics of the Underground: The Afterlife of Cultural Spaces.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018).
  • “Cracks in the Pre-Invented World: Disaster, Art, and the Sublime in New York, 1970 to 1992.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.

Presentations

  • “Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics." Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), University of Salzburg, Austria (September 2023).
  • “Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics.” Third Annual Philosophy in the Wild Conference (University of Pennsylvania), Poe Paddy State Park, Pennsylvania (July 2023).
  • “Lucky By Nature? Aristotle on Luck and Political Science.” Southern Political Science Association’s 2023 Summer Conference (June 2023)
  • “Rethinking Heidegger on Rationality.” Graduate Student Research Series, Tulane University Department of Philosophy, New Orleans (March 2023).
  • “After the Land Ethic: Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics.” Tulane University Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit, New Orleans (Spring 2023). Accepted yet unable to attend.
  • “Beyond the Priory: Everyday Spiritual Spaces.” Tulane University Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit, New Orleans (Spring 2023). Accepted yet unable to attend. Co-written with Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty (Tulane University, School of Architecture).
  • “Wittgenstein & Heidegger on Ethical Knowledge.” Eastern APA, Montreal (Spring 2023).
  • “Writing an Undergraduate Philosophy Paper.” Invited lecture for Karl Schmid’s Buddhist Philosophy course, Tulane University, New Orleans (Fall 2022).
  • “Buddhist Moral Phenomenology’s Epistemological Worry: Dinnāga & Dharmakīrti on Conceptual Distortion.” Gonzaga University Graduate Philosophy Conference, Gonzaga University, Spokane (Spring 2022).
  • Comment on Jerome Romagosa’s “Representational Deflationsism: Eliminativism or Anti-Naturalism?” New Orleans Philosophical Society’s Graduate Student Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans (Spring 2022).
  • “The Construction of Space: Crisis Urbanism, Architecture, and Alternative ‘Conceptions of the Good.’” Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium, (2020, accepted yet postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19). With Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty (Tulane School of Architecture).
  • “Beyond Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs: New York City’s 1970s Economic Crisis and the Anarchitecture of Gordon Matta-Clark.” Social Science History Association, Annual Conference, Chicago (2019).
  • “An Economics of Historical Discontinuity.” Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (STOREP), Università di Siena, Siena (2019).
  • “Cutting Up the City: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Urban Commons.” Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Lisbon Polytechnic University, Lisbon (2019).
  • “Can We Design Culture? A Theoretical Account of Interventions into Cultural Processes.” Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg (2019).
  • “Justifying the Urban: Philosophical Foundations of Urban Economics.” University of Southern California, Institute for New Economic Thinking/YSI, Los Angeles (2019).
  • “Economy of the Closet: Creation and Mechanisms of the Market for Brazilian Public Sex.” Invited lecture in Christopher Mitchell’s Global LGBT History course, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York (2018).

Awards

  • Adam Smith Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University (2022–present)
  • Tulane University Fellowship (2021–present
  • Universität Hamburg Philosophie Sommerkurs Tuition Grant (2020)
  • Institute for New Economic Thinking / Young Scholars Initiative Travel Grant (awarded twice in 2019).
  • University of Chicago, MAPH Research Travel Grant (2016).

Teaching

As Instructor of Record

  • Introduction to Philoosophy: Environmental Ethics Emphasis, Tulane University (Spring 2023)
  • Introduction to Philosophy, Tulane University (Fall 2022)

As Teaching Assistant

  • Buddhist Philosophy, Karl Schmid (Spring 2022 & Fall 2021)
  • Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, Jeffrey Escoffier (Spring 2021)
  • Sexual Revolution: Freedom, Theory, and Sexual Politics, Jeffrey Escoffier (Spring 2019)

Pedagogical Training

  • Tulane University Philosophy Teaching Workshop (2022 - Present)
  • Essentials of Learning & Teaching, Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching (Spring 2022)
  • Universal Design Learning Academy, Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching (Fall 2021)