Stephan Blatti holds a D.Phil in Philosophy from Oxford University and is currently Director of University Honors, Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives of the Honors College at the University of Maryland. Before coming to Maryland, Blatti spent nearly a decade at the University of Memphis, where he served as Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, and Editor of the Southern Journal of Philosophy. He has also held appointments at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The author and editor numerous books, journal issues, and scholarly articles, Blatti’s primary area of research is metaphysics—specifically, the problem of personal identity—though his work extends to related topics in philosophical psychology, the philosophy of biology, and at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics.