Placement Record
The following is a chronological listing of our Ph.D. graduates. The biographical notes include most recent known position. Please send any updates and corrections by email.
| Year | Degree | Name | Advisor | Dissertation/Placement/Notes |
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| 2026 (expected) | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Çağla Çimendereli | Hille Paakkunainen |
Dissertation: TBA Placement: Old Dominion University (Lecturer). Previously Marjorie Boulton Fellow (https://www.esperantic.org/en/marjorie-boulton-fellowships/). |
| 2025 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Sean Nalty | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: “In Defense of Metaphysics: A Defense of the Value and Methodological Soundness of Metaphysics Understood as Structural Modeling.”
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| 2025 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Adam Patterson | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: “The Good Life and Good Agents”
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| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Aatif Abbas | Kenneth Baynes |
Dissertation: "Global Justice through Poor People's Perspectives." Placement: Colgate University (Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, will convert to Assistant Professor in Fall 2026). |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Chris Bousquet | Kenneth Baynes |
Dissertation: "A Right to Independence: A Kantian Account of Free Expression and its Limits." Placement: College of the Holy Cross (Visiting Assistant Professor). |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Lorenza D’Angelo | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "Valent Experience: On Its Non-sensory Nature, Its Unity, and Its Place in Value Theory." Placement: N/A. Previously: Postdoc at Pompeu Fabra University (3-year postdoc), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Weiting Huang | Christopher Noble |
Dissertation: "Three Studies on Chance in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy"
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| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Stacy Kohls | Hille Paakkunainen |
Dissertation: "A New Hobbesian Constructivism" Placement: Southwestern Illinois College (Assistant Professor). |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Yaojun Lu | Robert Van Gulick |
Dissertation: "On the Use of Introspection in the Study of Consciousness." Placement: LaFayette College (Visiting Assistant Professor). Previously Postdoc at Fudan University (2024-2026). |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | William Galloway Osborne III | Luvell Anderson |
Dissertation: “The Even Harder Cases: How Conceptual Art as a Paradigm Affirms the Viability of a Theory of Art” Placement: Syracuse University (Part-Time Instructor) |
| 2024 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Thiago de Melo | Mark Heller and Kris McDaniel |
Dissertation: "The Naturalness and Structure of Relations" Placement: Furman University (Adjunct). Previously Lecturer at Universidade Federal de Alagoas. |
| 2023 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Dante Dauksz | Fred Beiser |
Dissertation: "Space and Time in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation" Placement: University of Rochester (Postdoctoral Associate) |
| 2023 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Huzeyfe Demirtas | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI" Placement: Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow). Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University. |
| 2023 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Nikki Fortier | Ben Bradley and David Sobel |
Dissertation: "Bringing Hedonism Back: Towards an Objective Hedonistic Account of Well-Being" Placement: Ithaca College (Adjunct Professor) |
| 2022 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Rowan Bell | Hille Paakkunainen |
Dissertation: "Gender Norms and Gendered Traits" Placement: University of Guelph (Assistant Professor). Previously Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy and Preparing Future Faculty at University of Missouri, Columbia. |
| 2022 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Teresa Bruno-Niño | David Sobel |
Dissertation: "On the Prudential Power of Beliefs and Fittingness of Attitudes"
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| 2022 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Benjamin Cook | Kris McDaniel |
Dissertation: "Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality" Placement: No longer working in Philosophy. |
| 2022 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Jan Swiderski | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: "Metaphysical Coherentism" Placement: No longer working in Philosophy. |
| 2021 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Carolyn Garland | Kris McDaniel/Hille Paakkunainen |
Dissertation: "Explaining the Metaphysics of Grief" Placement: No longer working in Philosophy. |
| 2019 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Amir Arturo Javier-Castellanos | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: "Issues in the Metaphysics of Material Objects" Placement: No longer working in Philosophy. |
| 2020 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Isaiah Lin | Kristopher McDaniel |
Dissertation: "On the Plurality of Existences" Placement: Providence Christian College (Assistant Professor) |
| 2019 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Byron Simmons | Kristopher McDaniel |
Dissertation: "The Nature of Being" Placement: Texas A&M University (Visiting Assistant Professor) |
| 2018 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Naomi Dershowitz | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: "All the Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism"
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| 2018 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Joe Hedger | Robert Van Gulick |
Dissertation: "Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development" Placement: Previously Part-Time Lecturer at Syracuse University. |
| 2016 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Sean Clancy | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good" Placement: East China Normal University (Assistant Professor) |
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Nicole Dular | David Sobel and Hille Paakkunainen |
Dissertation: "Knowing Better, Reasoning Together" Placement: Notre Dame of Maryland University (Assistant Professor) |
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Kendall Fisher | Kara Richardson and Kris McDaniel |
Dissertation: "Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and It's Union with the Body" Placement: Gonzaga University (Assistant Professor). Previously Assistant Professor at Seattle University. |
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Li Kang | Kris McDaniel |
Dissertation: "Spreading Structures" Placement: Washington and Lee University (Assistant Professor) |
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | James Lee | Kris McDaniel |
Dissertation: "A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics" Placement: SUNY Oswego (Lecturer) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Yishai Cohen | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: "Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities" Placement: University of Southern Maine (Associate Professor) |
| 2016 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Steve Steward | Kristopher McDaniel |
Dissertation: "On What Consists in What" Placement: Employed outside of Philosophy. |
| 2016 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Travis Timmerman | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "In Defense of Deprivationism" Placement: Seton Hall University (Associate Professor-tenured) |
| 2016 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Preston Werner | David Sobel |
Dissertation: "Seeing Right and Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Intuitionism" Placement: Hebrew University (Tenured Senior Lecturer) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Charles (Rich) Booher | Frederick Beiser |
Dissertation: "Perfection, History and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791" Placement: De Anza College (Full-time Faculty) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Mihnea Capraru | Robert Van Gulick/Thomas McKay |
Dissertation: "The Sundial Tribe and the Labyrinth of Purpose" Placement: Nazarbayev University (Assistant Professor) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Kirsten Egerstrom | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "Practical Identity and Meaninglessness" Placement: Whatcom Community College (Philosophy Full-time faculty) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Jacob Greenblum | Kenneth Baynes |
Dissertation: "Social Equality: On the Aim of Distributive Justice" Placement: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Certified Healthcare Ethics Consultant) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Ryan Hubbard | Kenneth Baynes |
Dissertation: "A Defense of Formal Contractualism" Placement: Gulf Coast State College (Associate Professor)) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Amy Massoud | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "Moral Worth and Supererogation" Placement: Syracuse University (Adjunct) |
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Jason Rourke | Mark Heller |
Dissertation: “Questions And Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications”
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| 2015 | Ph.D. in Philosophy | Aaron Wolf | Ben Bradley |
Dissertation: "Where the Reasons Come From" Placement: Colgate University (Senior Lecturer in University Studies and Research Affiliate in Philosophy) |