Miriam Ambrosino
Ph.D. Candidate
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. Stony Brook University (In Progress) • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate, SBU (2025) • M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University (2021) • B.A. in Philosophy/Bioethics, Fordham University (2017)
Areas of Specialization: Phenomenology, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Philosophy of Race
Miriam is a PhD candidate in Philosophy who has also completed a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research, which focuses primarily on emotions and society, lies at the intersection of phenomenology, feminist theory, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of mind/cognitive science. She is curious about the constitutive relationship between social injustice, feeling, and affective agency. Her dissertation investigates how social agents produce inequalities in social power through their value orientations, understood as feeling orientations to value.
Research Interests: affectivity, embodiment, value, social injustice, social movements, Enactivism, mystical experience
Selected Publications
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Ambrosino, Miriam. "Affective Agency and Axiological Harm: A Schelerian Approach to Affective Injustice." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39, no. 3 (2025): 310-322.
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Rabasco, Ana, Miriam Ambrosino, and Dean McKay. "Empirically supported treatments for obsessive-compulsive related disorders in the age of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)." Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 23 (2019): 100452.