Faculty

Micah Trautmann   

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: Ladd 213
Phone: 518-580-8431
Email: mtrautmann@skidmore.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Boston University
• B.A. Vassar College

Teaching and research interests:

• Social & Political Philosophy (esp. Migration and Displacement);
• 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger and Arendt);
• Ancient Greek Philosophy;
• Ethics;
• Philosophy of the Emotions;
• Moral Psychology

Published works:

• “Life in Limbo: Asylum Detention and the Environmental Conditions of Hope.”Journal of the American Philosophical Association 12, no. 2 (2026): 182-200.  
• “The Wrong of Refugee Containment.”The Southern Journal of Philosophy 63, no. 1 (2025): 99-115.  
• “Non-Durable Solutions: The Harm of Permanently Temporary Refugee Housing.”Journal of Applied Philosophy 41, no. 4 (2024): 612-629.  
• “Physical and Sensory Disabilities and Displacement: A Systematic Review.”Social Science & Medicine 407 (2026) [with Sayeeda, R., Nahum, Y., Zaman, M., & Preston, C.]