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Recent Placements

All listed academic positions are tenure track (TT) or tenure track equivalent (TTE).  Those marked with an asterisk (*) are non-tenure track positions; those marked with a plus (+) are renewable positions; those marked PD are post-doc positions.

For those graduates for whom their first post-PhD placement remains their current position, the position has been listed only once.

Recent Job placements

Year

PhD Recipient

Title of Dissertation

Current Employment

First Placement Post-PhD

2023

Regina Hurley N/A University of Buffalo (TT)

2023

Blaze Marpet The Value of Wisdom: Philosophical Protreptic in Plato, Vātsyāyana, and Dharmottara University of South Florida

2022

Carmen De Schryver Decolonizing Phenomenology: Dialogical Universality in Césaire, Fanon and Hountondji Trinity College
2022 Eli 

Lichtenstein

Sovereignty, Violence, and Critique: Essays on Foucault’s Early Genealogies of Power Lewis & Clark College (*)
2022 Marzouq Alnusf Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global Justice Kuwait University
2022 Jonathan Vandenburgh

Causal Models, Meaning, and Beliefs

Stanford University (PD)

2021 John Beverley 

Responsibility Where We Find It

SUNY University of Buffalo(TT) 

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (2021-2022)

2021 Taylor Rogers Knowing How to Feel: Mapping affective epistemologies of ignorance through numbness

Governors State University (TT)

Loyola University

2021 Mark Thomson Emotions and the Subject's Point of View Capilano University (TTE)
2021 Nathan Weston Defending Pragmatic Epistemic Instrumentalism:
A Pragmatic Account of Epistemic Normativity
Data Scientist at Reynolds Consumer Products
2020 Carry Osborne A Social Approach to Doxastic Responsibility American University (*)
2020 Daniel Skibra Modals and their Arguments University of Konstanz (PD)
2020 William Cochran Aristotle's Notion of Teaching and Its Role in His Theory of Moral Education

Wake Forest University (PD, 2020-21)

Harvard University (PD, 2021-23)

2019 Evan Dutmer Cicero Philosophico-Politicus: Glory, Friendship, Utopia Culver Academies
2019 Gretchen Ellefson Communicative Context and Normativity Southern Utah University (TT)
2019 Lauren Leydon-Hardy Epistemic Infringement Amherst College (TT)
2019 Nicholas Leonard Testimony, Higher-Order Evidence, and Rational Indeterminacy University of San Francisco (TT)
2018 Ezra Cook Intensionality and Abstraction: A Theory of Logical Form Data Scientist at RotaRoute
2018 Morganna Lambeth Rethinking the Structure of Events: Heidegger on Kant and the Concept of Cause

Cal State Fullerton(TT)

Purdue University (PD, 2018-2021)

2017 Carlos Pereira Di Salvo Reconstructing the Kantian Cosmopolitan Project University of Pennsylvania (*)
2017 Jared Peterson A Puzzle about Desire: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Wanting

SUNY Oswego (*+)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside (*)

2017 Raff Donelson When We Ask What Law Is Louisiana State University (TT)
2017 Amy Flowerree The Practical Foundations of Epistemic Normativity

Texas Tech University (TT)

University Of Cologne, Center for Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (PD) (AY 2017-18)

2016 Chelsea Egbert Feminist Critiques of Consent Employed in the private sector
2016 David Johnson Color, Movement, Intensity: Aesthetics and Metaphysics in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze

Art Institute of Chicago (*)

Loyola University Chicago (*)

2016 Kurt Mertel Liberating the Self-Relation from Reification and Alienation: Towards an Appropriative Approach

Queen's University (*+)

American University of Sharjah (TT)

2016 Hung Nguyen Birth in Beauty: Truth, Goodness and Happiness in the Platonic Dialogues On the Market
2016 Adam Ring The Bounds of Understanding: Ontology, Interpretation, and Critique in Heidegger's Being and Time St. John's University in Queens (*+)

2015

Daniel Tovar

Perception and Persuasion in Aristotle's Ethics

Southern California Institute of Architecture (*)

The Art Institute of Chicago (*+)

2015

Rebecca Mason

Social Ontology Naturalized

University of San Francisco (TT)

2015 Seth Mayer Democratic Ethos:  A Theory of Informal Politics

Manchester University (TT)

Auburn University (*+)

2014

Tyler Zimmer

Relational Egalitarianism

University of Chicago (TTE)

Northeastern Illinois University (*)

2014

Eric Jonas

Derrida's Theory of Alterity and Critical Animal Studies

Digital Production Specialist at Integrated Direct Marketing 

2014

Derek Green

Intentionality, Determinacy, and Rules: Kripke's Paradox and the Normativity of Content

University of Central Florida (*+)

Oakland University (*)

2014

Deborah Goldgaber

The Materiality of the Trace: Deconstruction beyond the Linguistic Turn

LSU (TT)

2013

Emilie Prattico

Is Democracy Epistemic or Egalitarian?  A Habermasian Perspective

Business for Social Responsibility

(Partnership Development & Research, FRANCE)

2013

Oksana Maksymchuk

The Measure Doctrine in Plato’s Protagoras

University of Arkansas (TT)

2012

Max Cherem

Habermas on Citizenship and Immigration

Kalamazoo College (TT)

2012

Ryan Doran

Definiteness, Specificity, and the Multiple Uses of Demonstrative Expressions

University of Regina (TT)

2012

Guy Elgat

Nietzsche's Overcoming of Schopenhauer's Pessimism

The Art Institute of Chicago (*)

2012

Haewon Jeon

Does Plato Think Ordinary People Can Be Virtuous? The Moral Capacity of the Producers in Plato's Republic

Metropolitan State University of Denver (*)

2012

Alison Peterman

Spinoza's Physics

University of Rochester (TT)

2012

Wolfhart Totschnig

Extraordinary Moments, Extraordinary Endeavors: Arendt on New Beginnings and Principled Action

Universidad Diego Portales (TTE)

2011

Carl Ehrett

Vagueness: Precision and Particularity

Currently pursuing a PhD in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University

Furman University (*)

2011

Laura Papish

Against Constructivism in Kantian Ethical Theory

George Washington University (TT)

Johns Hopkins University (*)

2011

Scot B Rousse

Thrown Projection: An Interpretation and Defense of the Hermeneutic Conception of the Self in Heidegger's 'Being and Time'

Pluralistic Networks (Researcher & Curriculum Developer)

UC Berkeley (*+)

2010

Kelby Harrison

Ethics of Passing: A Theoretical and Practical Analysis

University of Southern California (*+)

2010

Chike Jeffers

The Black Gift: Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitani

Dalhouise University (TT)

2010

Henry Southgate

Individuation and Opposition in Hegel’s 'Doctrine of Essence':The Importance of the Kant’s 'Amphiboly' to Hegel’s Metaphysics

University of Wisconsin - Madison (*+) 

2009

Brad Cokelet

Rational Agency, Virtue, and Respect for Persons

U of Miami (TT)

University of Kansas (TT)

Middlebury College (*)

2009

Jonathan Trejo-Mathys

Inheritance, Sovereignty, and Promise: Political Authority and Obligation in an Age of Transformations

Boston College (TT)

University of Frankfurt (PD)

2009

Kate Padgett Walsh

The Direction of Desire: A Hegelian Account of Reasons for Action

Iowa State University (TT)

2008

Howard Kaplan

Realism, Idealism, and the Commitments of Common Sense

Litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP

2008

Tushar Irani

Plato's Grounds for Philosophy: The Virtues of Dialectic in the Later Dialogues

Wesleyan U (TT)

2007

Eli Diamond

Divine Thinking as the Paradigm of Life in Aristotle's De Anima

Dalhousie University (TT)

2007

Ben Rutter

Hegel on the Modern Arts

St. Ann's School (NY) (*+)

2007

Melissa Yates

Religion in the Public Sphere: Reflections on Rawls and Habermas

Rutgers-Camden (TT)

St. John's University (TT)

2006

Joseph Cannon

Feeling and Judgment in Kant: Aesthetic Judgment, Practical Judgment and the Creation of Beauty in Art

PPC Strategist at Ox Optimal

U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2006

Vincent Chiao

Self-Knowledge between Decision and Discovery

University of Richmond

University of Toronto

2006

Jeffrey Flynn

Human Rights and Global Diversity: Rawls, Taylor, Habermas

Fordham University

Middlebury College

2006

Samir Haddad

Derrida, Arendt, and the Inheritance of Democracy

Fordham University

2006

Todd Hedrick

Reconstituting Political Philosophy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue

Michigan State University

University of Richmond (*)

2006

Jason Leddington

Perceptual Acquaintance

Bucknell University

Centre College (*+)

2006

Sebastian Rand

From A Priori Grounding to Conceptual Transformation: The Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism

Georgia State University (TT)

2006

Steve Skultety

The Role of Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

University of Mississippi (TT)

2005

Joshua Andresen

Nietzsche's Project of Creating New Values in Beyond Good and Evil

University of Surrey

2005

Alexandra Bradner

On the Pragmatics of Explanation from VanFraasen to Achinstein

Kenyon University (*)

2005

Daniel Brandes

Where Everything is Possible: Hannah Arendt on Freedom and the Question of Evil

University of King's College - Halifax

2005

Matthew Steilen

On Color: The Metaphysical Conception of the World

SUNY - Buffalo Law School

2004

David Gray

Philosophical Dimensions of Criminal Trials in Transitions to Democracy

U of Maryland School of Law

Duke University of Law