Graduate Placement Information

Placement Information

The information provided on this page indicates, depending upon what is available in our records, either a graduate's first placement or current position. When both are available, we include that information.

Year	Student	Dissertation	Placement
2013	Zane Yi	"The Possibility of God: An Examination and Evaluation of Charles Taylor's Transcendental Critique of Closed-Worlds" (to be defended on April 24, 2013)	Loma Linda University (tenture track, 2013-)
2013	Margaret Hughes	"Sculpting the Moral Man: Josef Pieper on the Perception of Beautiful Art in Moral Formation" (to be defended on March 22, 2013)	College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York (tenure track 2012-)
2012	Adam Wood	The Immateriality of the Intellect in Thomas Aquinas' Philosophical Psychology"	Wheaton College (tenure track, 2012-)
2012	Aaron Converse	"An Examination of Aquinas's Approach to Conscience"	Did not apply for teaching positions
2012	Ian Rottenberg	"Sacred Text as Saturated Phenomenon: The Unspoken Command of Scripture"	St. Leo University (tenture track, 2012-)
2012	Christopher Rice	"The Value of Relationships with Other Species"	Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2012-)
2012	Johanna Nashi	"A Humanistic Approach to Bystander Responsibility in Cases of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide"	Did not apply for teaching positions
2012	Sr. Mary Denise D'Attore	"Thomas Aquinas on the Role of Second-Order Judgment in Human Electio"	Did not apply for teaching positions
2011	Eleanor Helms	A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Authorship	California Polytechnic State University (tenure-track, 2011-)

2011	David Zoller	Heidegger and Social Identity: A Phenomenological Analysis of Judgments of Cultural Identity and Difference	California Polytechnic State University (part-time, 2011-)

2011	Thomas Becker	John Finnis on the Obligation to Follow Unjust Laws	Did not apply for teaching positions

2011	Kirk Kanzelberger	The Mystical Daydream: Fictive Being and the Motive of Evil	Did not apply for teaching positions

2011	Seth Joshua Thomas	A Pragmatist Recovery of Health: Rethinking the Limits of Biomedicine	St. John's University, NY (tenure-track, 2011-)

2011	David Storey	Nature, Nihilism, and Life in Heidegger and Nietzsche: Naturalistic Metaphysical Foundations for Environmental Ethics	Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellowship, 2011-)

2011	Scott O'Leary	The Significance of Affect: On the Practical Functions of Emotion	University of St. Mary, KS

2011	Andrew Henscheid	Love's Authority: Kierkegaard and the Question of Autonomy

2011	Gary Gabor	'Carving Nature at its Joints': The Platonic Method of Division in Plato, Aristotle, and their Neoplatonic Commentators	1. Boston College (2-year visiting assistant professor position, 2011-2013, non-tenure track) 2. Hamline University (tenure-track 2012-)

2010	Richard Kenneth Atkins	Successful Perceiving	Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2010-)

2010	Stephen Chamberlain	Thomist Realism and the Hermeneutic Turn: A Study of Intentionality, Signs, and Language	Rockhurst University, MO

2010	Daniel Fincke	On Deriving and Defending an Axiology of the Will to Power

2010	Dylan Futter	Belief and Persuasion in the Socratic Elenchus	University of the Witwatersrand (tenure-track)

2010	Kyle Hubbard	'Who Then Are You, My God?': Augustine of Hippo and Jean-Luc Marion on the Nature and Possibility of Loving God	Wheaton College (temporary non-tenure-track)

2009	Ariane Economos	Intellectus and Induction: Three Aristotelian Commentators on the Cognition of First Principles, Including an Original Translation of John Buridan's Quaestiones in Duos Aristotilis Libros Posteriorum Analyticorum	1. Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2008-2010) 2. Marymount University (tenure-track, 2010-)

2009	E.Das Janssen	Transgressive Dasein: An Applied Ontology of Sex and Gender	Chicago State University (assistant professor, tenure-track, 2009-)

2009	Adam Konopka	An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology of Umwelt: Reconsidering the Natur/Geist Distinction Toward an Environmental Philosophy	1. Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2008-2010) 2. College of Mount Saint Joseph (tenure-track, 2010-)

2009	Emmanuel Nartey	Mind-Body Distinction and the Problem of the Hylomorphic Constitution ofCartesian Composites	LaGuardia College of CUNY (tenure-track)

2009	Eoin O'Connell	Kant's Moral Idealism: The Nature and Role of the Highest Good in Kant's Theory of Practical Reason	Manhattan College (tenure-track)

2009	Anne Ozar	Sincerity: A Phenomenological Investigation	Creighton University (tenure-track)

2008	David Becker	The Question of Coherence in Schopenhauer's System: An Examination of the Doctrine of the Will's Self-Overcoming	Did not apply for teaching positions

2008	David Borman	The Organization of the Enlightenment: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy	1. University of Winnipeg (contract position, 2008-2012) 2. Nipissing University (tenure-track, 2012-)

2008	Daniel Breyer	Cognitive Agency and Belief Ownership: Rethinking Epistemic Justification	Illinois State University (tenure-track)

2008	Edgar Devina	The Ground of the Normative Force of Discourse: A Lonerganian Reconstruction of Habermas's Communicative Rationality	Did not apply for teaching positions

2008	Jane Dryden	Relational Autonomy: Bridging a Gap Between Feminisim and German Idealism	Mount Allison University (tenure-track)

2008	James Stone	The Foundation of Universal and Necessary Propositions in Select Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas	Did not apply for teaching positions

2008	Joseph Trabbic	Aquinas, God, and Ontotheology	Ave Maria University (renewable)

2007	Christopher Arroyo	Kant and Husserl on Moral Obligation and Emotions	1. Dominican College (tenure-track, 2006–7) 2. Providence College, (tenure-track, 2007–)

2007	Michael Boring	Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida: Religious Subjectivity in Postmodernity	University of Colorado at Denver (non-tenure track)

2007	Ryan Gable	Being and Husserl’s Transcendental Reduction: The Possibilities for Ontology within Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology	St. Dominic's Priory (Dominican novice)

2007	Christopher Harless	Sartre's Ethics and the Dialectic of History: Searching for a Ground of Hope for the City of Ends	Regis University (part-time adjunct)

2007	Rosa Slegers	Courageous Vulnerability: Ethics and Knowledge in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu Approached throughthePhilosophies of Bergson, James, and Marcel	1. Centre College, KY (tenure-track, 2007-2009) 2. Babson College, MA (tenure-track, 2009-)

2006	Meredith Gunning	About Face: Altered States of Subjectivity in Levinas	Northern Essex CC, MA (tenure-track)

2006	Matthew Kent	Prime Matter According to St. Thomas Aquinas	1. St. Mary's College, MI (adjunct instructor, 2002-3) 2. University of St. Thomas, MN (visiting instructor, 2003-5) Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, MI (Wilbur Fellow, 2005-6) 3. University of St. Thomas, MN (adjunct instructor, 2008-)

2006	Katherine Kirby	The Ethical Priority of Infinite Obligation: Levinasian Vulnerability as the Condition for the Possibility of Virtue	St. Michael's College, VT (tenure-track)

2006	Stephen Minister	Sizing Up Infinite Alterity: The Possibility of a Levinasian Practical Ethics	1. Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2006–7) 2. Augustana College, SD (tenure-track, 2007–)

2006	Yutaka Shimada	Lonergan's Critical Realism, Isomorphism, and Metaphysics of Proportionate Being in Insight: An Encounter with the Critical Problem of Knowledge	Did not apply for teaching positions

2006	John Stefanczyk	St. Thomas Aquinas' Confrontation with Neoplatonic Thought in Three Commentaries, and in the Treatise on Separate Substances	Did not apply for teaching positions

2005	Craig Condella	The Question Concerning Ecology: Heidegger's Appropriation of Aristotle on the Way to an Environmental Ethic	1. Fordham University (post-doc teaching fellow, 2004–6) 2. Salve Regina College, RI (tenure-track, 2006–)

2005	Jeffrey Hanson	Breaking with the Secular: Toward an Authentically Religious Postmodernism	Australian Catholic University (tenure-track)

2005	Brian Harding	Libido Dominandi: Augustine's Genealogy of a Fallen World	Texas Woman's University (tenure-track)

2005	Barbara Lowe	Beyond Recognition: A Feminist-Pragmatist Account of Esthetic Moral Agency	St. John Fisher College, NY (tenure-track)

2005	John Neubauer	The Role of Feelings in Kant's Moral Philosophy	Did not apply for teaching positions—retired

2004	Corey Beals	Levinas and the Wisdom of Love: Breaking Gyges’ Secret	George Fox University, OR (tenure-track)

2004	Mark Van Hollebeke	John Dewey's Pragmatic Reconstruction of Subjectivity	Seattle University (renewable non-tenure-track )

2004	Michael Kelly	Self-Awareness in Transcendence	1. Fordham University (post-doctoral teaching fellow, 2003–4) 2. Boston College (indefinitely renewable non-tenure-track, 2004–2012) 3. University of San Diego (tenure-track, 2012-)

2004	Alan Rhoda	The Problem of Induction: An Epistemological and Methodological Response	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (renewable non-tenure-track)

2004	Antonella Surbone	From Truth-Telling To Truth-Making In Medicine	NYU European School of Oncology (also an M.D.)

2003	Matthew Edgar	Autonomy and Heteronomy: Buber, Levinas, and Hegel on the Social Source of Obligation	Xavier University, OH (non-tenure track)

2003	Anthony Giampietro	The New Natural Law Theory and the Question of Same-sex Marriage	University of St. Thomas, MN (tenure-track)

2003	Brian Henning	A Genuine Ethical Universe: Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos	1. Mount Saint Mary's University, MD (tenure-track, 2003-2008) 2. Gonzaga University (tenure-track)

2003	Gwynn Markle	Freedom, Justice, and Recognition: the Normative Grounds of Hegel’s Social Theory and Axel Honneth’s Critical Theory	Loyola Marymount University, CA (part-time adjunct)

2003	Michael Sharkey	Heidegger, Lonergan and Authenticity: An Inquiryinto the Role of Intelligence in Praxis	University of Wisconsin at Platteville (tenure-track)

2003	Joseph Burner Smith	The Emergence of an Ecological Way of Life	St. John's College, NM (tenure-track)

2003	Elizabeth Sonnier	Whitehead’s Theory of Inheritance	San Jose Public Library