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Placement Record for PhD Graduates

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We are very pleased that nearly all of our PhD students have obtained academic positions.

2008

Bryan Bannon Miami University of Ohio
Visiting Assistant Professor
David Scott Coppin State University
Assistant Professor, English
The Naïveté of Thought: The 'Critique' of Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

2007

Suzanne Antley Attorney
Collective Utterances and Meaning in Legislative Utterances
Kristie Dotson Michigan State University (present appointment)
Purdue University (initial appointment)
Assistant Professor
On Epistemic Partiality in Testimony
Erinn Gilson Wittenberg University
Visiting Assistant Professor
From Resemblance to Resonance: The Production of Thought in Deleuze's Ontology
David Gougelet
American University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Life Invested: Biopower's Taming of Chance and Difference in Foucault

2006

Sister Mary Bernard The Relationship Between Intentionality and the Concept of God in Malebranche's "Vision of God"
Bethany Dunn Vassar College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Rethinking Hobbesian Power: A Critical Engagement with Arendt, Foucault, and Agamben
Jill Hernandez University of Texas, San Antonio
Assistant Professor
Impermissibility, Moral Worth, and the Normative Sources of Action
Kris Sealey Fairfield University
Assistant Professor
Positionality and Transcendence in Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

2005

Marda Kaiser University of Memphis
Part-time Instructor
Apertures of Language in Derrida and Foucault: The Aporia and Archive as Passage to Thinking Otherwise
Heath Massey Beloit College 
Assistant Professor
The Persistence of the Past: Bergson and Heidegger on Time
Steve Tammelleo Lake Forest College  
Assistant Professor
Constructing A Social Ontology of Ethnic Identity

2004

Anika Mann Morgan State University   
Assistant Professor
Ethics from the Standpoint of Race and Gender: Sartre, Fanon and Feminist Standpoint Theory
Donna Marcano Trinity College
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Sartre and the Social Construction of Race

2003

Athena Colman Lewis University    
Assistant Professor
Subjectivity, Embodiment, and Meaning in Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray
Chris Fox Newman University
Assistant Professor
Structure of the Holy: Religion in Hegel & Levinas
Kathryn Gines Penn State University
Assistant Professor
From Political Space to Political Agency: Arendt, Sartre, and Fanon on Race and Revolutionary Violence
Valentine Moulard University of Memphis
Visiting Professor

Virtual Unconscious and Transcendental Time: Bergson and Deleuze's New Ontology of Experience
Brad Stone Loyola Marymount University
Assistant Professor
Dominions and Domains: Machination, Discipline, and Power in Heidegger and Foucault

2002

Karin Fry University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Assistant Professor
In the Spirit of Kant: Political Judgment in Arendt and Lyotard
Stacy Keltner Kennesaw State University
Assistant Professor
Existential Social Theory and the Philosophy of History: Toward a Dialectic of Political Judgment in the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Ann Murphy Fordham University
Assistant Professor
Ethics in History: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault on Historicity and Ethics

2001

Josh Glasgow Victoria University of Wellington
Value In Kant's Ethics: In Defense of a Value-based Deontology
Randy Cagle Minnesota State University, Morehead
Associate Professor
A Narrative of Aufklärung: Kant's Doctrine of Moral Progress Toward Perpetual Peace

2000

Bob Barnard University of Mississippi
Associate Professor
The Naturalist's Dilemma: Logic and Ontological Naturalisms
Rex Gilliland Southern Connecticut State University
Associate Professor
Heidegger's Concept of Freedom: His Confrontation with the Ethics of Kant and Schelling
Max Maloney Christian Brothers University
Assistant Professor
Subjectivity as Saintliness in the Ethical Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

1999

Maria Cimitile Grand Valley State University
Associate Professor
The Truth in Mimesis: Phenomenological Transformation in Gadamer, Heidegger, Irigaray
Claire Katz Texas A & M University
Associate Professor
Eros, Dwelling, Ethics: The Face of the Feminine and the Judaic in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas 

1998

Zeynep Direk Universite de Galatasaray
Assistant Professor
The Renovation of the Notion of Experience in Derrida's Philosophy
Amy Morgenstern University of Dayton
Assistant Professor
Plato's Umschlag: The Turn Away From the Nothing in Plato's Sophist

1997

Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo Washington State University
Associate Professor
Irigaray's Figures of Sexual Difference: Embodiment, Ambiguity, and "Race"

1996

John Drabinski Hampshire College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Difference and Sense: The Problem of Relation in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas
Mitchell Haney University of North Florida
Assistant Professor
Re-Thinking the Archangel and the Prole: The Structure of Moral Normativity
Ted Toadvine University of Oregon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Contradiction, Expression, and Chiasm: The Development of Intersubjectivity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty

1995

Herman Stark South Suburban College (Chicago)
Associate Professor
Rationality Without Rules
Kevin Thompson DePaul University
Associate Professor
The Logical Structure of Civil Society in Hegel's Grundlinein der Philosophie des Rechts
Last updated: 09/16/2008 15:36:24