Dr. Linda Radzik Thamann, Professor in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy. She works on the moral, political and legal issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing. She is the author of, Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford, 2009) and The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (Cambridge, 2020). Radzik has also written about the ethics of forgiveness, political reconciliation, criminal punishment, tort theory, collective moral responsibility, postwar ethics, and the choices that face third-party witnesses to wrongdoing.

Dr. Katherine Unterman is a legal historian. She is particularly interested in the evolution of ideas about how the law should address changing conditions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She is the author of Uncle Sam’s Policemen: The Pursuit of Fugitives across Borders (Harvard University Press, 2015). She has written about law in the U.S. insular territories, international anarchism, and extradition and asylum.

Bio is forthcoming.

Ty Pargmann is a senior history major with a classics minor. He expects to graduate in the spring of 2024, and is currently looking at graduate schools for history.

Colin Peek is a junior from Frisco, Texas. He is currently pursuing a double major in International Studies and Economics with a minor in Russian. Colin plans to continue his education after graduating by attending law school or a graduate program in International Affairs. Additionally, Colin is on the Texas A&M Mock Trial team where he serves as secretary, as well as being a part of the Slavic Club. In his free time, Colin enjoys foreign language study, playing chess, and playing guitar with his friends. In this program, he hopes to develop a thesis about Soviet political rights, racial gerrymandering, or non-citizen voting in the United States.

Diego Sepulveda-Allen is going to be a junior this upcoming year double majoring in Philosophy/History with degree certificates in Philosophy Pre-Law and Legal History. He plans to go to law school after he graduates. Outside of academics, he is involved in voter advocacy organization MOVE TX and hopes to use the seminar to contribute to his advocacy. In addition to MOVE, he has served in SGA as the Bryan City Council Delegate for the executive cabinet and as a member of the Election Commission.

Cameron Smelser is a Political Science major with a minor in Sociology at Texas A&M University.  She is currently in her junior year in undergrad and has a passion for social justice and political theory, which she plans on exploring with her undergraduate thesis under Dr. Unterman and Dr. Radzik. She is aiming to go to law school shortly after with an interest in labor law, working with unions to ensure their rights. her goal in anything she does is to ensure every voice is heard, and she would like to accomplish this through her career and research. Outside of her research, she enjoys listening to all kinds of music. She explores this through being a station DJ on Texas A&M’s radio org KANM.