Ariana Peruzzi
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Michigan
B.A., Philosophy and Liberal Studies, University of Houston
About
My research is in political philosophy and ethics. Immigration policy raises fundamental questions about the scope of our moral duties, and about the nature of states, borders, and international law. These are the questions that interest me. Much of my current research is on the normative political theory of asylum. Some of the questions I am writing about include: Why are states obligated to offer asylum? Who ought to receive asylum? What is asylum’s role in the larger international legal order? A second, related, strand of my research focuses on questions of statehood, legitimate authority, sovereignty and territorial rights. These papers dispute the state-centric view of the international order, and seek to move past it.
I currently run a zoom reading group for graduate students and faculty on the topic of the philosophy of migration justice (so feel free to reach out to be added to the mailing list.)
Before coming to Southern Methodist University I was a Law and Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. I have also been a visiting student-scholar at the University of Washington.
