Soofia Lateef
Philosophy PhD Candidate, University of California, Riverside
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Research
Graduate Research Projects
- Dissertation: Pessimism and Affect
- Masters Thesis: Hope and Power-Seeking (accepted 2023)
Conference Presentations
- Contemporary Challenges and Values 4: Values and Emotions — Institute of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2025)
- Politics of Pessimism conference — Tufts University (2025)
- Pessimism: Problematising the Value of Life conference — NOVA University Lisbon (2024)
Fellowships
- UC Riverside Dissertation Program Fellowship, $23,000 (2026-2027)
- UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, $8,000 (2026)
- UC Riverside Provost Research Fellowship, $50,000 (2020-2025)
Research Groups
- Graduate Fellow, Emotion and Society Lab (2023–2024)
- Participant, Experimental and Feminist Philosophy Workshop — CUNY (2021)
Service
- UC Riverside colloquia coordinator (2024–present)
- Minorities and Philosophy chapter head for UC Riverside (2024–present)
- Judge, California Regional Ethics Bowl (2025)
- UC Riverside Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship roundtable panelist (2024)
- Graduate Student teaching mentor, UC Riverside Philosophy department (2022–2023)
- Presentation on Diversity Statements, UC Riverside Philosophy department (2022)
Teaching
Associate Instructor and Teaching Assistant at University of California, Riverside (2021–present)
Teaching Awards
- Graduate Division's Outstanding TA Award (2025)
- Philosophy Department Distinguished TA Award (2022)
As Associate Instructor
- Evil
- Philosophical Issues of Race and Gender
- Introduction to Law and Society
As Teaching Assistant — Philosophy
- Evil
- Philosophy of Race
- Hellenistic Philosophy
- Biomedical Ethics
- Introduction to Law and Society
- Philosophy of Law
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Contemporary Moral Issues
- Ethics and the Meaning of Life
- Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Logic
- Formal Logic
As Teaching Assistant — Gender & Sexuality Studies