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Recent Job Placements

Here is a list of some of our graduate student placements in the last five to six years.

Tenure Track Placements  

  • Michael Burke
  • Area: Kant, Continental Philosophy
  • Placed 2008
    Position: Philosophy, St. Joesph's College
  • Chris Meyers
    Area: Ethics
    Defended: 2003, held a two year post at Southern Methodist University
    Position: University of Southern Mississippi.
  • Marjolein Oele
    Area: Ancient Philosophy and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
    Defended: 2007, placed: 2007
    Position: Philosophy, University of San Francisco.
  • Corrine Painter
    Area: Twentieth Century Continental, Heidegger
    Graduated and placed: 2004
    Position: Emporia State University, Kansas.
  • Shannon Shea
    Area: International Human Rights
    Defended: Summer 2004, placed: Fall 2004
    Position: Instituto Technologico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Kristi Sweet 
    Area: Kant
    Dissertation: "Reason and the Transformation of Nature: A Study in Kant's Practical Philosophy"
    Defended: December 2006
    Position: Texas A&M University
  • Adrian Switzer
    Area: Kant, Modern, Continental Philosophy
    Defended:2005, placed 2008
    Position:Philosophy, Western Kentucky University
Placements in Other Professions
  • Heather McGee
    Area: Nietzsche
    Defended: 2004
    Position: Left a non-tenure track position at Salisbury State University, Maryland, to take up a career in philosophical counseling.

  • Brian O'Toole
    Area: Ethics and Health Care Administration
    Defended: 2003
    Position: Vice President of Ethics and Mission, National Mercy Health Systems.
Non-tenure Track Placements
  • John Casey
    Area: Ethics
    Defended: 2002
    Position: Philosophy, full-time teaching, Northeastern University Illinois.

  • Amilcar Davila
    Area: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Heidegger
    Defended: 2003
    Position: Universidad Francisco MarroquĂ­n, Guatemala City, Guatemala.


    Noah Horwitz
    Defended: 2003
    Area: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
    Status: Presently teaching Philosophy online for the University of Maryland-University College, Devry University, and Ellis College.

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