Ariana Peruzzi

Ariana is a PhD Candidate in the department of philosophy. Her research is in political philosophy. She is currently writing a dissertation on migration justice, territorial rights, and rights of non-displacement. Some of the questions she is investigating include: (1) When is migration involuntary? (2) Who ought to be eligible for refugeehood/asylee status? And, (3) do communities have rights against displacement? Ariana is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Latin American studies at the University of Michigan and is interested in issues of movement and displacement from a Latin American lens.

Ariana did her BA at the University of Houston, completing majors in philosophy and liberal studies, and minors in English, music history, and politics. She almost pursued graduate study in music history instead of philosophy, and previously worked in multiple positions in the field of ethnomusicology, studying Latin American music and social change. She still spends much of her free time listening to music and reading fiction. When not reading or listening to music, she likes to play ping pong and hike with her chihuahua Roo.