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Somreeta Paul
  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Philosophy Department
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities & Social Sciences Building, N/A
  • Mail Stop Philosophy

Research Interests

imagination, social epistemology, social cognition, aesthetics

Biography, Education and Training

Somreeta Paul is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Philosophy. Her research is focused on the various ways ethics, epistemology, and imagination amalgamate. She is the current TLC Graduate Pedagogy Fellow and past THI Public Fellow for PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization). In addition to her academic experience, she works with UCSC’s Center for Public Philosophy and MAP.

B.A. in Philosophy from Jadavpur University, India.

M.A. in Philosophy from Jadavpur University, India.

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, 2025.

The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Public Fellow, 2024.

Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) Small Grant Fellowship, 2024.

The Humanities Institute (THI) Graduate Student Success fellow, 2021-23.

Grad Humanities Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2021.

Regent's Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2021-2022

Dean's Travel Grant, Fall 2023