Alexandra Zeppeiro

Professional Bio

Alexandra Zeppeiro is a first-year Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Her research examines multiracial identity and the processes of racialization, with the aim of challenging reductive conceptions of race and illuminating how racial categories shape subjectivity, particularly within communities that resist whiteness as the normative standard, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing on philosophy, African American studies, and critical race theory to interrogate the sociocultural and historical forces that structure identity and power.

Engaging thinkers such as Fanon, Du Bois, Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger, Alexandra explores how multiraciality unsettles dominant racial hierarchies and opens space for more fluid and liberatory accounts of personhood. Her broader research interests include the philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, African American thought, and metaphysics.

She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with a minor in African American Studies from Howard University, where her work centered on the intersections of race, identity, and institutional power. She currently serves as an advisor to The Howard University Student Journal of Philosophy and is developing a digital humanities project on the bureaucratic construction of racial categories and the racialized history of credit. This project interrogates the epistemic and economic tools that have historically shaped the conditions of Black life.

Committed to cultivating a more inclusive philosophical community, Alexandra aspires to become a professor, public intellectual, and to mentor future generations of underrepresented students in the discipline.