Sonya Özbey has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department, from Assistant Professor. Sonya joined the University of Michigan in 2017, after receiving her PhD in Philosophy from DePaul.
Sonya is a scholar of classical Chinese philosophy and early modern European philosophy. Thematically, her research focuses on conceptions of human and animal identity, as well as intersections of categories of animality, gender, and ethnicity, in different philosophical texts. Sonya is particularly interested in examining the grammar of different types of reasoning that establishes humans as exceptional, if not superior, and how different formulations of human exceptionality inform conceptualizations of differences within human communities. Since her research draws from different philosophical traditions, Sonya is also interested in methodologies of intercultural philosophy.
Congratulations, Professsor Özbey!
