Placement

Dr. Weese graduates!
Dr. Tara Weese, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Central Connecticut State University.

Our Department has an excellent placement record. Since 1996, over 70% of graduates have continued on to tenure-track academic positions. The vibrancy of the Department’s philosophical culture (as shown, for instance, by its active colloquium series), its strength in a broad range of areas of philosophy, and the outstanding reputation of its faculty combine to attract some of the nation’s most talented graduate students.

We are very pleased with our recent placement record. It is organized below by the year the Ph.D. was earned, beginning with the most recent year. Next to each graduate is the name of their institution and dissertation title.

AlumnusEmploymentThesis
2025 - Year of Graduation
Caleb HazelwoodAssistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies (TT), University of WyomingGroundwork for the Metaphysics of Models
2023 - Year of Graduation
Tara WeeseAssistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science (TT), Central Connecticut State UniversityConceptions of Victimhood: Legal, Political, and Psychological Dimensions
2022 - Year of Graduation
Qiu LinAssistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), Simon Fraser UniversityThree Essays about Problems of Space in the Early Modern Period
Robert BingleLearning and Development Specialist at the Trenton CorporationAnger Eliminativism: Stoic and Buddhist Perspectives
Kobi FinestonePostdoctoral Research  Fellow, Chapman University, Smith Institute for Political Economy and PhilosophyMaking Models Work
Angela BischofInstructor, University of North Carolina at GreensboroAnimals as Moral Agents
2021 - Year of Graduation
Hannah ReadPostdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest UniversityEmpathy for Opponents: A Cognitive, Emotional, and Institutional Approach to Moral Conflict
Valerie SoonAssistant Professor of Political Science (TT), University of California, San DiegoThe Problem of Sorting: A Dilemma between Freedom of Association and Social Justice
Hannah Bondurant How to Inform and Transform Oneself
Erick SamAssociate Professor of Law (TT), University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of LawThe Right of Exit: Emigration, Secession and the Structure of International Taxation
2020 - Year of Graduation
Songyao RenAssistant Professor (TT), University of Texas at DallasDispassion and the Good Life: A Study of Stoicism and Zhuangism
Joseph Nelson A Defense of Basic Hedonism
Tim BurkhardtUniversity of Colorado BoulderDeath is Nothing! A Defense of Epicureanism
Heather WallaceFounder, Writing is ThinkingThe Other's Freedom: Existential Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Simone de Bouvier
2019 - Year of Graduation
Ewan KingstonAssistant Professor (TT), College of CharlestonBad Goods: On the Political Morality of Production and Consumption in Global Supply Chains
Bryce GessellAssistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), Southern Virginia UniversityMateria Mentis: How the Brain Sculpts the Mind
Max BeningerPostdoctoral Fellow, University of SalzburgThe Mental Workspace: Working Memory and Its Relation to Attention and Consciousness
Matthew Harris Continents in Cognition
Lauren BunchAssistant Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism (TT), Mercer University School of MedicineAuthenticity and Enhancement
Paul HenneAssistant Professor (TT), Lake Forest CollegeOmissions, Causation, and Modality
Sungwoo Um Assistant Professor (TT), Seoul National UniversityThe Virtues of Intimate Relationships
2018 - Year of Graduation
Rafael VenturaSenior Consultant, Simon-Kucher & PartnersEvolutionary Models of Language
Lok ChanEngineer at CuriDeliberative Bayesianism: Abduction, Reflection, and the Weight of Evidence
2017 - Year of Graduation
Aaron AncellAssistant Professor (TT), Bentley UniversityPublic Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
Jing HuAssistant Professor (TT), Concordia University (Montreal)A New Perspective on Sympathy and Its Cultivation, with Insights from the Confucian Tradition
Susanne Meyer Flavors of Responsibility
2015 - Year of Graduation
Aryn ConradWilliam D. Bowen, AssociateOn the Functions of Morality
Nathaniel GindeleWebpoint, DeveloperA Naturalistic Philosophy of Play 
James OngAssistant Professor (TT), New York City College of Technology Inhabiting Difference
Gordon SteenbergenAssistant Professor (TT), Lycoming CollegeUnderstanding Cognition 
Daniel StephensAssistant Professor of Humanities (TT), Duke Kunshan University (China)The Sage's Psychology: Confucianism Naturalized
2014 - Year of Graduation
David BarackPlatt Labs, Research AssociateMindcraft: A Dynamical Systems Theory of Cognition
Carlos MariscalAssistant Professor (Tenured), University of Nevada, Reno Universal Biology
Stephen MartinAssociate, Ballard SpahrIrresistible Reasons, Immovable Minds, and the Miracle of Rational Persuasion
2013 - Year of Graduation
Robert Williams Peircean Naturalism
Nathan MortonOntologist, AmazonArticulating the Core Realist Commitment
John ParkAssistant Professor (TT), Oakland UniversityTheories of Concepts and Ethics
2012 - Year of Graduation
Matthew BraddockAssistant Professor (TT), University of Tennessee at MartinDebunking Challenges to Moral Realism
David CrawfordVisiting Fellow, National Cancer InstitutePhilosophy: Chance Begets Order: Hierachical Probabilistic Processes in the Natural Sciences; Biology: Hierarchical Transition Via Individuation, Not Integration: How the Filamentous Fungi Challenge the Standard Model
Leonore FlemingAssociate Professor (Tenured), Utica CollegeVariance, Selection and Evolutionary Explanation
Daniel KraemerAdjunct Professor, Florida International UniversityMaking Sense of Normative Functions and Information in Neurobiological Systems
2011 - Year of Graduation
Sanem SoyarslanAssistant Professor (TT), NC State UniversityReason and Intuitive Knowledge in Spinoza's 'Ethics': Two Ways of Knowing, Two Ways of Living
Breanna KerchnerVisiting Assistant Professor - two year, Lafayette College in Easton, PAHumean Supervenience
2009 - Year of Graduation
Rachell PowellAssociate Professor (Tenured), Boston UniversityReading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution
Andres LucoInstructor, Auburn UniversityDesire and the Rationality of Virtue
2008 - Year of Graduation
Hagop SarkissianProfessor (Tenured), Baruch College and the Gradate Center, CUNYAfter Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power
Sahar AkhtarAssociate Teaching Professor, Georgetown UniversityTopics in Rational Choice
Sun Kyeong YuAssociate Professor (Tenured), Minnesota State, MankatoReducing Biology
Elizabeth JelinekAssociate Professor & Chair, Christopher Newport UniversityPlatonic Teleology Through An Aristotelian Lens
2007 - Year of Graduation
Woojin HanAssociate Professor (TT), Duksung Women's University A Construction of A Posteriori Physicalism
David KaplanAssistant Professor (TT), Monash UniversityThe Nature and Bases of Spatial Representation
Grant RamseyBOFZAP Research Professor, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, BelgiumCulture from Infrahumans to Humans: An Essay in the Philosophy of Biology
2006 - Year of Graduation
Kevin DeLappHarold Fleming Chair of Philosophy, Converse CollegeRe-enchanting Morality: A Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism
Nita FarahanyProfessor of Law and of Philosophy, Duke UniversityRediscovering Criminal Responsibility through Behavioral Genetics
2005 - Year of Graduation
Robert ConradSoftware Application Developer and System Administrator, Sandia National LaboratoriesConceptual Structures of Moral Experience in Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis
Caery EvangelistAssociate Professor (Tenured), University of PortlandMedieval Intelligibility: The Relationship Between Mind, World and Transcendental Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
Avram HillerAssociate Professor (Tenured), Portland State UniversityVagueness and Normativity
Marion HourdequinProfessor (Tenured), Colorado CollegeNature and Normativity: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Ethical Norms
Stefan LinquistAssociate Professor (Tenured), University of Guelph, CanadaThe Descent of Mind: An Evolutionary Account of the Higher Cognitive Emotions
Joel SchickelData Scientist, CareSourceFreedom of the Will, Passion, and Virtue in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment
Tamler SommersAssociate Professor (Tenured), University of HoustonBeyond Freedom and Resentment: An Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Andrew TerjesenAttorney, McGuire WoodsThe Role of Sympathy and Empathy in Moral Judgment, with Special Reference to Adam Smith and David Hume
William WojtachContent Developer, The Great CoursesAn Empirically Constrained Study of Visual Perception
Frédéric BouchardProfessor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal, CanadaEvolution, Fitness and the Struggle for Persistence
2003 - Year of Graduation
Boris KuksoTrial Attorney, US Department of JusticeTrouble for Truthmakers: Negation and Possibility
Anthony WilliamsAssistant Professor (TT), College of CharlestonMoral Conflict and Incommensurability
2002 - Year of Graduation
Alan GallowayNon-academic positionMoral Perception
2001 - Year of Graduation
Todd DavisNon-academic positionScience and the Constitutive a priori: Ian Hacking’s Philosophy of Science
Michael MuthAssistant Professor (TT), Wesleyan CollegeThe Augustinian Background of Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Order
Eddy NahmiasProfessor of Philosophy, Georgia State UniversityFree Will and the Knowledge Condition
Thomas Osborne

Assistant Professor (TT), University of St. Thomas

Professor (Tenured) of Philosophy & Chair, University of St. Thomas

The Natural Love of God Over Self: The Role of Self-Interest in Thirteenth-Century Ethics
Brook SadlerAssociate Professor (Tenured) and and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of South FloridaAmoralism and the Justification of Morality
2000 - Year of Graduation
Steven GeiszChar & Associate Professor (Tenured), University of TampaSpeaking Wordly: An Adverbial View of Representation
James E. MahonDean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNYMotivational Internalism and the Authority of Morality
Thomas PolgerProfessor (Tenured), University of CincinnatiNatural Minds
Elizabeth SchiltzProfessor (Tenured) & Department Chair of Philosophy,
College of Wooster
Sophrosune and Mania: The Rise and Study of Moral Psychology
1999 - Year of Graduation
Gokhan AdalierProfessor of Business Administration, Eastern Mediterranean University
 
The Structure of Judgments and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus
Carla Fehr

Associate Professor, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, & 

Gender and Social Justice Advisor, University of Waterloo, Canada

A Natural History of the Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: The Virtues of Explanatory Pluralism
1998 - Year of Graduation
James AllmanNon-academic positionLanguage, Speakers, and Metaphor
1997 - Year of Graduation
Joseph U. Neisser

Assistant Professor (TT), Sam Houston State University

Associate Professor at Grinnell College in Iowa

The Embodied Approach to Cognition: A Defense
Glenn SanfordProfessor, Sam Houston State UniversityExplaining Evolution: Genes, Culture, Environment, and Mechanisms
1996 - Year of Graduation
Gillian BrockProfessor, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
Donald Scott CarsonAssociate Professor and Director of Studies, Honors Program in Philosophy, Ohio UniversityBeing and Truth: Elements of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Language
Jack WilsonAssociate Professor (tenured), Washington and Lee UniversityLiving Entities: Identity and Persistence