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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.

Philosophy Department Graduate Alumni
Year Degree Name Advisor Dissertation/Placement/Notes
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.”

2025 Ph.D. in Philosophy Adam Patterson Ben Bradley

Dissertation: “The Good Life and Good Agents”

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"

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"

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"

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”

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)