Jonathan Kwan

Jonathan Kwan is a philosophy Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research primarily lies in social and political philosophy and intersects with environmental and indigenous philosophy. Jonathan’s dissertation, entitled “The Social Ontology of the People,” develops an eco-political account of the people in order to inform the issues of indigenous territorial rights, structural racist domination, and immigration controls. In his efforts to contribute to cross-cultural and comparative approaches to philosophy, Jonathan also has interests in Chinese and Buddhist philosophy. Jonathan has taught widely at various campuses across CUNY including Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Baruch College, and LaGuardia Community College. In addition to serving as a fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Jonathan is also a Mellon Humanities Alliance Teaching Fellow, a Communication Fellow at the Schwartz Communication Institute, and a fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics. He also serves as the Associate Managing Editor for the Journal of Social Philosophy.