Jeanne Proust

Foundation for Humane Technology course, from the Center for Humane Technology (2023)

Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris I

2014 - 2019

Ph.D. in Philosophy, advisor Denis Kambouchner

Dissertation: “La volonté et ses pathologies : psychologie expérimentale et théorie de l'âme chez Théodule Ribot” (“The Will and its Pathologies : Experimental Psychology and Theory of the Soul in Théodule Ribot’s Works”). Degree obtained in July 2019.

Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris I

2007 - 2010

Preparation for the Philosophy ‘Agrégation’ (highest teaching diploma in France)

Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, France

2007 - 2010

Master’s in Philosophy, advisor Michel Philippon, aesthetics field

Dissertation: “The Strength of Habits: Philosophical Anthropology of the Concept of Sclerosis : Genesis, Influence, Liberation.” (Grade: A)

Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

2006 - 2007

B.A. in Philosophy (Erasmus program)

Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, France

2006 - 2007

B.A. in Fine Arts (Art History, Theory, and Practice)

Lycée Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux

2003 - 2005

Major in Art Theory and Philosophy

“Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles” (CPGE : hypokhâgne and khâgne - A/L Program for Ecole Normale Superieure Ulm, Humanities and Social Sciences)

• French (native)
• English (perfectly fluent)
• German (excellent proficiency)
• Spanish (professional working proficiency)

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• David Velleman
  Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, NYU; Research professor, Johns Hopkins
• Béatrice Longuenesse
  Professor Emerita of Philosophy, NYU
• Daryl Tress
  Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University
• Stephen Grimm
  Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University
• Eddis N. Miller
  Chair of Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Pace University
• Vincent Renzi
  Clinical Professor in the Foundations of Contemporary Culture and of Classics; Director of the Foundations of Contemporary Culture and Global Curriculum Coordinator, College Core Curriculum, NYU
• Manel Camps
  Crown College Provost and Professor (Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department), UC Santa Cruz
• Jonathan E. Ellis
  Professor, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Public Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
• Denis Kambouchner
  PhD advisor. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University
• Charles Ramond
  Professor of Philosophy, Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University

Fall 2023 - Present

Public Philosophy

UCSC Center for Public Philosophy

Program Director for the Night of Ideas: Lead organizer for the Night of Ideas Santa Cruz March 1st, 2024, and April 4, 2025 (preceded by the “Crossing Borders” event I created, produced and led in May 2023). Partnering with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, The Humanities Institute, Cowell College, Humanities West, the Marc Sanders Foundation, Villa Albertine, and the Institut Français

Executive Interim Director of the CPP (June 2023 - June 2024); Lead organizer for the Invitational Ethics Bowl 2024

Judge for San Quentin Ethics Bowl with incarcerated students from Mount Tamalpais College, Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, NorthCal High School Ethics Bowl

Co-creator of an unprecedented Tech Ethics Bowl with Dr. Kyle Robertson, based on the TEQ deck

Lead organizer and speaker for Tech Ethics workshops on campus using the TEQ deck

Public Philosophy Network

Vice President of the Public Philosophy Network (since August 2024)

Co-organizer for the Public Philosophy Network 8th Conference, McMaster University

Co-editor for the Public Philosophy Network’s Guides to Public Philosophy

Co-editor-in-chief for the Public Philosophy Journal

UC Santa Cruz Lecturer

For the Philosophy department:

Ancient Greek Philosophy (Undergraduate course – Fall 2023 and Spring 205 - Graduate Seminar – Winter 2025)

Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Mixed-level “mezzanine” seminar; UG/Grad cross-list. Spring 2025)

Advanced Ethics (Spring 2024)

Introduction to Ethics: Contemporary Moral Issues (Spring 2023)

For Crown College:

Ethical and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies (Fall 2023, 2024, 2025)

Crown College Academic Coordinator (From Summer 2025)

Other

Philosophical Counseling practice (since 2024)

Philosophy advisor for startup Philosophy Technologies

Instructor - 92NY (Introduction to Aesthetics – 2 seminars), ThinkOlio

Night Of Ideas San Francisco: April 5, 2025. (Un) Common Ground. Sentient Machines & Cyber-Intimacies: Rethinking Moral Consideration and Human Connection – A conversation with Robert Long, Eleos AI

Fall 2022 - Fall 2023

Philosophy Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz

Introduction to Ethical Theory (Spring 2023)

Epistemology (Winter 2023)

Advanced Ethics (Fall 2022)

Mentor for CMP Academy (Research project on Japanese Literature and Feminism)

Dutchess Community College and CUNY-CityTech: Online lecturer (Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Ethics, Critical Thinking, Bioethics)

Speaker for ThinkOlio and for the UCSC Center for Public Philosophy

September 2019 - August 2022

Fordham University

Postdoc

Teaching “Philosophical Ethics” and “Issues of Life and Death”- promoted to Lecturer for the 2021 Spring Semester

New York University

Primary instructor

Primary instructor for First Year Seminar on “The Nature and Concept of Evil” and "Bioethics: Life and Death"

ThinkOlio

Public philosopher, Speaker/ Instructor

Can You Phil It?

Podcast host and content producer (2020-2021)

2015-2019

Pace University

Primary Instructor

Normative Ethics, Philosophical Problems, Modern Philosophy

Marymount Manhattan College

Primary instructor

Introduction to Philosophy

CUNY, CityTech

Primary instructor

“The Nature and Concept of Evil” (Fall 2017)

ThinkOlio

Public philosopher, Speaker/ Instructor

Prison Education Initiative at Riker’s Island

Philosophy instructor- Volunteer work.

Miami Dade College

Primary instructor

Critical thinking and Ethics, and Introduction to Philosophy

New York University

Instructor for Texts and Ideas

• Beasts and Books, with Sarah Kay (Spring 2018)
• Getting a life, with David Velleman (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
• What is a good human life? with Anja Jauernig (Spring 2017)
• Moral psychology: Antiquity and 19th century, with Vincent Renzi (Fall 2016)
• Life and Death, with David Velleman (Spring 2016)

International Studies Charter High School, Miami, Florida

Fall 2010 - Spring 2015

Humanities Teacher in the French Program

Introduction to Philosophy (12th grade), French Literature (11th grade), and Art History (9th grade)

Alliance Française

2010-2011

Philosophy for Children workshops

April 2026

APA Pacific Division Meeting

Public Philosophy Network

Curating and chairing two sessions for the Public Philosophy Network, “Teaching Ethics in Public” and “Transformative Philosophy.”

Since 2023

UC Santa Cruz

Guest speaker in various classes

AI, Visual Culture & the Posthuman, Prof. Ed Shanken, UCSC Associate Professor for Digital Art and New Media; Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl, Dr. Kyle Robertson; Ethics & Algorithms, Distinguished Professor Lise Getoor, Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering

April 2025

APA Pacific Division Meeting

Public Philosophy Network

Curating and chairing two sessions for the Public Philosophy Network (Vice-President since September, 2024)

Fall 2021

Fordham University

Teaching Race Across Curriculum

Active participant in the TRAC project (Teaching Race Across Curriculum) – Grant received by Fordham University to implement more diversity in the undergraduate core philosophy classes.

Spring 2021

Fordham University

Committee member, examiner

Committee member/examiner for the defense of Geoffrey Engel’s PhD dissertation: "Intensive Magnitudes in the Metaphysics of Deleuze". Advisor: Michael Baur (Fordham University). Other members on the committee: Daryl Tress (Fordham Univer- sity), Jude Jones (Fordham University), and Ed Casey (Stony Brook University). Focusing on Difference and Repetition, Engel investigates both the origin of the term intensity through Deleuze's historical critique of being and theory of time, and the role that intensive magnitudes play in his theory of metaphysical individuation.

• More talks and achievements under "Public Philosophy
• Active participant in “A Night of Philosophy and Ideas” (former ‘Night of Ideas’) for the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy (from 2017 to 2020). Several workshops and talks - among which: “On the Urgent need for Critical Thinking in the Social Media Era” (January 2017); “Facing Death - Faith in Death as a Way of Life?”; “Sexuality and Feminism” (February 2020)
• Host and producer of Philosophy Podcast "Can You Phil it?"
• Activity leader in a community center for persons with cerebral and motor disabilities from 2006 to 2010 (association ARIMC, Bordeaux, and Notre-Dame de Joye, Paris, France)
• Dual Nationality (USA, France)

• Sexuality and Gender Studies
• Education in carceral environments
• Personal practice in Visual Arts – Photography, Drawing, Video, Oil Painting
• Podcast production for Public Philosophy, Music production
• Contemporary and classical choreography, Speleology