The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) is proud to present the team of researchers who will be in residence at the Centre for the academic year 2025-2026. We will introduce our new researchers briefly, but rest assured you will be kept informed of their research activities throughout the year!

Welcome to the visiting professors who will soon pursue a fellowship at CRE! :  

• Bob Fischer, Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals, and Senior Research Director for the think tank Rethink Priorities. His research project is entitled Pricing Suffering. His stay will last from February 1 to 28, 2026.
• Stephanie Kapusta. Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. Her research focuses on feminist and social philosophy, with an emphasis on transgender studies. Her stay will last from January 3 to April 30, 2026.
• Sari Kisilevsky, Assistant Professor, Queens College at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on responsibility and moral personhood, within the fields of philosophy of law and ethics. Her fellowship will begin on September 8, 2025.

Welcome to our visiting researcher at the CRÉ :

• Yawovi Agbonkou is a Ph.D. candidate in political philosophy and ethics at Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Pierre-Henri Tavoillot. His research project focuses on the role of socio-political institutions in economic redistribution and social recognition, as well as on citizen engagement in processes of social transformation. His research stay at the CRÉ, under the supervision of Pablo Gilabert (Concordia), will take place from September 13 to October 16, 2025.

Researchers whose stay at CRÉ will continue through 2025-2026:

• Arash Abizadeh, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University. His research project is entitled Power, Subjection, and Democracy. His stay as a visiting scholar began on January 1, 2025 and ended on June 30, 2025.
• Gilles Beauchamp, PhD in Philosophy at McGill U. His SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research project is entitled Religious Literacy as Epistemic Justice in Secular Society, and is carried out at the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques, the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) and the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ). Gilles is working under the supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM). His research stay began on September 1, 2024, and will end August 31, 2026.
• Ophélie Desmons, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at INSPE Paris – Sorbonne University. Her research project is entitled Reviser l’éducation des citoyens au regard des nouveaux défis du vingt-et-unième siècle. Her research stay as a visiting scholar began on April 7, 2025 and ended on June 12, 2025.
• William Gildea, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. His postdoctoral research project is entitled Justice for Humans, Justice for Animals, and is carried out under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQÀM). He is also affiliated with the Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA). His postdoctoral research period began on September 1, 2024, and will end on August 31, 2026.
• Nick Clanchy, DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Their postdoctoral research project is entitled Essays on Hermeneutical and Testimonial Injustices, and is being carried out at the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques, as well as the Centre de recherche en éthique. Their research stay began on September 1, 2023, and will end on October 14, 2025. Nick works under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Kristin Voigt (McGill).
• Anna Milioni, Ph.D in Philosophy from King’s College London. Her postdoctoral research project is entitled Une éthique de la migration mobile/The ethics of mobile migration and is carried out under the co-supervision of Ryoa Chung (UdeM) and Arash Abizadeh (McGill). She is also affiliated with the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP). Her research stay began on September 1, 2024, and will end on May 2026.
• Anat Rosenthal, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Tamar Golan Africa Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research project is entitled Care integration and climate adaptation in resource-limited health systems. Anat began her post as a visiting researcher on January 15, and will stay until September 14, 2025.
• Frédéric Côté-Boudreau, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Queen’s University. His postdoctoral research project focuses on debates in political philosophy on the question of animal rights. His work is being carried out at the Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe and the Social Justice Centre, in conjunction with the CRÉ, under the co-supervision of Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) and Christian Nadeau (UdeM). His research stay began on September 1, 2024, and ended in May 2025.
• Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Ph.D. in Philosopy, UQÀM. Her research project is entitled Valeurs et psychiatrie. Anne-Marie’s research is conducted at the Chaire de recherche en éthique féministe sur la vulnérabilité et les injustices structurelles, the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques and the Centre de recherche en éthique. She is co-supervised by Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Luc Faucher (UQÀM). Anne-Marie is a member of the Groupe de recherche en philosophie de la psychiatrie (POMH). Her research stay began on September 1, 2022 and will end on December 31, 2025.
• Zoey Lavallee, Ph.D. in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. Their project is entitled A Socially Situated Account of Agency in Addiction and will be carried out under the co-supervision of Ian Gold (McGill) and Luc Faucher (UQÀM), from January 1st, 2024, to December 31, 2025. This is after completing a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at CRÉ under the supervision of Natalie Stoljar (McGill). Zoey is a member of the Groupe de recherche en philosophie de la psychiatrie (POMH).
• Abraham Tejiri Tobi, doctoral candidate in Philosophy, University of Johannesburg. His research project is entitled Marginal Epistemic Injustice and is carried out at the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques as well as the Centre de recherche en éthique, under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Ryoa Chung (UdeM). Abe’s research stay began on January 1, 2024 and will end on December 31, 2025.