Jordan Daniels

I am currently an assistant professor in the Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College, with a secondary affiliation with the Department of Philosophy. I obtained my Ph.D. in philosophy at Emory University in 2021. Prior to my Ph.D., I completed a master’s degree in philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Eugene Lang College, The New School.

My research and teaching interests include comparative environmental philosophy, continental philosophy (especially critical theory), animal ethics, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy.

Recently, I have been writing about natural beauty, both on its role in the history of philosophy and on what kinds of aesthetic experiences of nature are available to us in our historical present. See my piece that challenges the perception of nature and natural disasters as righteous comeuppance for human hubris (e.g., “We are the virus” discourse) in “Dolphins in Venice: On Nature, Revenge, and Beauty,”  https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/dolphins-in-venice.

I have also been writing and teaching about confluences among ecofeminist, Indigenous, and continental approaches to nature and relationality.

If you would like to contact me, please write to me at Jordan [dot] Daniels [at] pomona [dot] edu.