Nicole Calian is a Lecturer in the Center for University Studies and Programs at the UW Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in German Philosophy and Literature from the University of Washington. She earned an M.A. in German at the University of Colorado Boulder and is an M.A. candidate in Psychology at Seattle University. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from John F. Kennedy University.

Calian is interested in philosophy, literature, intellectual history, and phenomenological psychology. She is intrigued by different conceptions of the human being throughout history: in particular, the theoretical appropriations that deal with the interplay of the commercium mentis et corporis. To this end, she continues to study the emergence of anthropology as a privileged branch of knowledge in the 18th century, particularly Immanuel Kant's contribution to this new science.