Placement Record
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2024
- Alessandro Moscarítolo (PhD 2021) has accepted a tenure track job as Assistant Professor of Comparative Philosophy in Randolph College.
- Areins Pelayo (PhD 2022) will be an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University while also performing her full-time admin duties at UIC Law.
- Bailey Szustak has a 2-year Postdoc as the James and Susan Keller Teaching Fellow at Wofford College.
- Bill D’Alessandro (PhD 2020) will be starting a tenure track position in the Philosophy department at William and Mary this Fall.
- Kay Cho (PhD 2023) has a Visiting Professorship in Philosophy at Mount Holyoke, renewable for up to 6 years.
- Nicolas Garcia Mills (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at SUNY-Binghamton for the next 3 years
- Taylor Kloha (PhD expected 2025) has taken a tenure-track job in the Philosophy Department at Concordia University in Wisconsin.
- Hashem Morvarid (PhD 2022) got a postdoc at Johns Hopkins, as well as a tenure-track job at Trinity University in San Antonio. He’s taking both, moving to the tenure-track job after he finishes the postdoc.
- Maria Mejia (PhD 2023) got a tenure-track job at Elon University in North Carolina.
- Tony Hernandez (PhD 2023) got a two-year postdoc at the Stephenson Institute for Classical Liberalism at Wabash College in Indiana.
- Areins Pelayo (PhD 2022) will be the Program Coordinator at the UIC School of Law, as of this September
- Zac Harmon (PhD 2019) is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Ohio State University.
- Tyler Hanck (PhD 2019) is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the College of Lake County.
- Reza Hadisi (PhD 2018) will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
- Nicolás García Mills (PhD 2019) will be an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institut für Philosophie at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2022 to 2024.
- Nader Shoaibi (PhD 2019) is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Gonzaga University.
- Jun Young Kim (PhD 2021) has accepted the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Seoul National University for 2022-2023. He is also Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University.
- Janella Baxter (PhD 2017) will be an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston University.
- Eric MacTaggart (PhD expected 2022) is a full-time Teaching Professional in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University.
- Emily Lacy (PhD expected 2022) has been hired as a Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy at Hastings College for 2022-2023.
- Deborah Haar (PhD 2022) is a data analyst with a SaaS (‘Software as a Service) company in Munich.
- Chen Liang (PhD 2020) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the China University of Political Science and Law.
- Brandon Kidd (PhD 2021) will be a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar at North Carolina State University for 2022-23.
- Areins Pelayo (PhD 2022) has been hired as Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University.
- Alessandro Moscaritolo (PhD 2021) is a Truax Postdoctoral Fellow at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, in the Philosophy Department at Hamilton College for 2021-24.
- Adam Betz (PhD 2016) has been hired as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.
- Nicolas Garcia Mills (PhD 2019) will be John and Daria Barry Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago for 2021-22. He has also accepted a two-year Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Institut für Philosophie at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2022-24.
- Tyler Hanck (PhD 2019) is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Saint Xavier University for the Fall 2021 semester.
- Zac Harmon (PhD 2019) has been hired as Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Ohio State University.
- Alessandro R. Moscaritolo (PhD 2021) has accepted the Truax Post-Doctoral Fellowship–at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor–in the Department of Philosophy at Hamilton College for 2021-23.
- Nader Shoaibi (PhD 2019) has accepted a full-time Lecturer position in the Department of Philosophy at Gonzaga University.
- Nicolas Garcia Mills (PhD 2019) is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University for 2020-2021.
- Janella Baxter (PhD 2017) has accepted a Lecturer position at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Bill D’Alessandro has accepted a Postdoctoral Research position at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
- Robert English is Adjunct Instructor at the University of Mississippi, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Rhodes College.
- Nicolas Garcia Mills (PhD 2019) is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University for 2019-2020.
- Nader Shoaibi (PhD 2019) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Indianapolis.
- Zac Harmon (PhD, expected Summer 2019) has accepted a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the University of Michigan.
- Tyler Hanck (PhD 2019) has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Janella Baxter (PhD 2017) has accepted a Lecturer position at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Saja Parvizian (PhD 2018) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Coastal Carolina University.
- Reza Hadisi (PhD 2018) is Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton’s Center for Human Values for 2019-2020; he has accepted a position as Lecturer at Princeton University for 2019-2020; he has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Arizona for 2020 and on.
- Kei Hotoda (PhD 2018) is the Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago Philosophy Department.
- Janella Baxter (PhD 2017) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science.
- Adam Betz (PhD 2016) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Centre College.
- Myisha Cherry (PhD 2018) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UC Riverside.
- William D’Alessandro (PhD 2017) is an Adjunct Lecturer at UIC in Public Health and Philosophy.
- Reza Hadisi (PhD 2018) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College.
- Saja Parvizian (PhD 2018) is an Adjunct Lecturer at UIC (Religious Studies) and Loyola University (Philosophy).
- David Schaffer (PhD 2016) is an Adjunct Lecturer at Harper College.
- Saniye Vatansever (PhD 2015) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Bilkent University.
- Maria Balcells (PhD 2013) has accepted a tenure-track position at Bucknell, beginning academic year 2017/18.
- Adam Betz (PhD 2016) has accepted a renewal of his research fellowship at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD for academic year 2017/18.
- Myisha Cherry (PhD expected 2018) has accepted a tenure-track position at UC Riverside, starting July 2018.
- Kent Schmor (PhD 2010) will be teaching at Langara College and Columbia College in Vancouver in 2017/18.
- Saniye Vatansever (PhD 2015) will continue in 2017/18 as Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at Yeditepe University (Istanbul).
- Janella Baxter – Two-year Postdoc at the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities with the research program “From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics,” funded by the Templeton Foundation.
- Adam Betz – One-year research fellowship at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
- Joseph Gottlieb – Three-year appointment at Texas Tech as Visiting Assistant Professor.
- Jessica Gordon-Roth – Tenure-track position at U Minnesota/Twin Cities, beginning fall 2016. Declined a TT offer from Santa Clara University.
- Saniye Vatansever – Visiting Instructor (for summer term), Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University and Adjunct Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Yeditepe University (Istanbul)
- Maria Barcells – Visting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University
- Robert Farley – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Hillsborough College
- Josh Norton – Assistant Professor at American University of Beirut
- Burkay Ozturk – Two-year Lecturer at Texas State University, San Marcos
- Kent Schmor – Visiting Lecturer at the University of British Colombia
- Saniye Vatansever – Visiting Instructor at Bilkent University
- Tiziana Vistarini – Three-year Lecturer at the University Colorado, Boulder
- Maria Barcells – Full-time Instructor at Misericordia University.
- Cameron Brewer – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University
- Robert Farley – Full-time Instructor at Northern Illinois University
- Burkay Ozturk – Two-year Lecturer at Texas State University, San Marcos.
- Kent Schmor – One-year Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Tiziana Vistarini – Postdoc at Rutgers University.
- Aleks Zarnitsyn – Postdoc in Teaching and Mentorship in the UIC Honors College.
- Robert Farley – Full-time Instructor at Northern Illinois University.
- Robert Fischer – Tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Texas State University San Marcos.
- Tina Gibson – Adjunct at Montgomery County Community College.
- Jessica Gordon-Roth – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Lehman College of CUNY.
- Burkay Ozturk – Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship at UIC.
- Kent Schmor – Full-time Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Tiziana Vistarini – Postdoc at Rutgers University.
- Aleks Zarnitsyn – Postdoc in Teaching and Mentorship at the Honors College, UIC.
- Maria Balcells – Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.
- Robert Farley – Full-time Instructor at Northern Illinois University.
- Robert Fischer – Senior Lecturer at Texas State University – San Marcos.
- Tina Gibson – Adjunct at Montgomery County Community College.
- Jessica Gordon-Roth – Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University.
- Kent Schmor – Full-time Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Aleks Zarnitsyn – Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship at UIC.
- Maria Balcells – Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.
- Cameron Brewer – Full-time at University of Minnesota, Rochester.
- Robert Farley – Full-time Instructor at Northern Illinois University.
- Robert Fischer – Senior Lecturer at Texas State University – San Marcos.
- Jessica Gordon-Roth – Full-time Visiting Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University.
- Sean Morris – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College-Denver (deferred to 2012).
- Kent Schmor – Lecturer at Kwantlen University.
- Maria Balcells – Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.
- Chad Brockman – Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
- Itir Gunes – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Salisbury University.
- Melissa Kozma – Senior Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Barron County.
- Seishu Nishimura – Associate Professor at Shiga University, Japan.
- Kent Schmor – Visiting Lecturer at Simon Fraser University.
- Andy Blom – Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University.
- Itir Gunes – Visiting Assistant Professor at Bloomsburg University.
- Rogerio Severo – Tenure-track at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil.
- Wittgenstein on Grammar and Method (from 1929 to the Philosophical Investigations) – The Federal University of Minas Gerais
- The Logical Interpretation and the Measurement Problem – Arizona State University, Faculty Associate
- Theories and Reality: Five Essays on Quine and Underdetermination – Federal University of Santa Maria, tenure track; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), collaborating professor and post-doc fellow
- Wittgenstein and Myths of Meaning – California University of Pennsylvania, tenure track
- A Dialogical Account of Authenticity – Oakton Community College, tenure track
- Progress and Preservation: Increased Unification and The Realist’s Conception of Scientific Success – East Tennessee State University, tenure track
- The Practice of Personhood: Understanding Individual Responsibility of Oppression – Arkansas State University, tenure track
- Foundations of Arithmetical Knowledge – Visiting Professor, Boston University; University of Illinois at Chicago, one year
- Choosing To Be Harmed: Autonomy and its Limits in Living Organ Donor Transplantation – Weill Medical College of Cornell Medical School, Assistant Dean of Research and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Division of Bioethics; University of Chicago, Director of the Ethics, Education, Policy and Compliance, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Human Subjects Research; Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
- Federation of Peoples: An Unorthodox Liberal Approach to Minority Nationalism – University of Wisconsin, Barron County, tenure track; Wilfrid Laurier Univiersity (Canada), two years
- New Directions in Scientific Observation: Theories Concepts, Objectivity, and the Analogy of Discovery – Rowan University, Associate Professor
- A Conceptual Analysis of Ecosystem Health – Northeastern Illinois University, tenure track
- Work Song! Autonomy & Authenticity From The Ground Up – College of DuPage, tenure track; University of Texas, Pan-American, tenure track
- Equal Protection: Sex Equality In Liberal Democracies – University of San Diego, tenure track; Eastern Michigan University, tenure track
- The Phenomenal Character of Visual Consciousness – Arkansas State University, tenure track; Northwestern University, one year
- The Liar Paradox, Self-Understanding and Nietzschean Perspectivalism – law school
- Continuity, Inquiry, and the Possibility of Wisdom in John Dewey’s Pragmatism – St. Olaf College, one year
- On the Point of What We Say: Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell on When Words Are Called For – Tufts University, tenure track; University of Chicago, Harper Schmidt Fellowship, three years
- On Lengths of Lines and Reals – Brooklyn College, tenure track; Northwestern University, two years; University of Illinois at Chicago, one year
- Motivating the Discursive Turn in Moral Theory – Jade Designs (website design)
- Language, Theory, and the Human Subject: Understanding Quine’s Natural Epistemology – Washington and Lee University, tenure track; Washington and Lee University, two years; Colgate University, two years
- Tractarian Mysticism: Moral Transformation through Aesthetic Contemplation in Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy – Chicago State University, one year; Ohio University, one year
- On Testing for the Stage Collapse in Quantum Mechanics – Bowling Green State University, one year; Colgate University, one year; Cornell University, two years
- The Variety of Reasons: Justification and Requirement in Rationality and Advisability – Florida State University, tenure track; University of Missouri, St. Louis, one year; Johns Hopkins, one year
- Local Time: Foundational Studies for a Theory of Temporality in a Relativistic Universe – Loyola University, one year; St. Joseph’s College of Maine, tenure track
- A Wittgensteinian Study of Experimental Psychology – Western Carolina University, tenure track
- Moral Problems in the Provision of Environmental Goods – SPSS, Inc. (consultant)
- The Dialectical Theory of Progress: A Study of Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Social Evolution – University of Louisville, tenure track; Hamline University, four years; University of Kentucky, one year
- St Thomas, Molina, and Leibniz on Divine Providence and Foreknowledge – University of Virginia, one semester; Central European University, Budapest, one semester; Wake Forest University, three years; University of Colorado, Boulder, one year
- The Best Test Theory of Extension – University of Colorado at Boulder, tenure track; Texas Tech University, tenure track; University of Washington, Visiting Scholar; Tacoma, Green River, and Highline Community Colleges
- The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities – Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture
- Inequality, Vulnerability, and Morality – William Rainey Harper College, tenure track; Lake Forest College
- Autonomy and Desire: An Essay in Moral and Philosophical Psychology – Central Michigan University, tenure track; Florida International University, tenure track
- A Deflationary Response to the Ontological Problem: In Defense of the Coherence Theory of Justification – California State University, tenure track (now tenured)
- Justice and Health: The Cultural Politics of Medicine – George Washington University, Writing Program, three years; University of Maryland, one year; George Washington University, four years
- Material Girls: A Game-Theoretic Revision of the Social Contract Enterprise with Women Present – Chicago-Kent School of Law
- Three Essays on Spinoza’s Philosophy – Utah State University, tenure track (now tenured)
- Unity and Uniqueness in the Early Schlick – Olive Harvey College, Humanities Department Chairperson; City Colleges of Chicago, tenure track (now tenured)
- Measurement and Macroscopic Quantities – University of Utah, Associate Professor with tenure; State University of New York, Buffalo, tenure track
- Thresholds for Rights – University of Western Ontario, tenure track (now tenured)
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Prior to 2009 the data is compiled by dissertation title rather than name – the dissertation author can easily be found by searching the title in the UIC library catalogue.