Mariam Donadio
Ph.D. Candidate
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. Stony Brook University (In Progress) • M.A. in Political Science, Columbia University (2022) • B.A. in Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles (2021)
Areas of Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy; Critical Phenomenology; Democratic Theory; Genocide Studies, Italian Thought; Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Mariam Donadio is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, having previously earned her M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and B.A. in Political Science from California State University, Los Angeles. Her academic research focuses on social and political philosophy, with particular attention to issues concerning democracy, structural genocidal violence, biopolitics, human rights and justice. Her dissertation, titled “The Artsakh Question: The Phenomenon of the Genocidal,” examines how genocidal violence unfolds as an ongoing process with particular reference to the lived experience of Armenians in Artsakh.
Recent Presentations
- Breaking the Chains: A Dialogue on Inequality in Marx and Rousseau, 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (April 2026)
- The Democratic Façade: Populism and the Loss of the Public Realm, 9th Annual HGSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (April 2026)
- Structural Genocidal Violence in Artsakh, 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (October 2025)