Graduate Placement and Dissertations

Graduate Student Placement Since 2000

  • 2023, Gabrielle Ray (PhD 2022), Ogden Honors College Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, LSU
     
  • 2023, Allen Ray (PhD 2023), Teaching classes in LSU Honors College
     
  • 2023, Jonathan Eng (PhD 2022), Visiting Instructor, Dept of English and Philosophy, Arkansas State University
     
  • Maura Cowen (ABD), Predoctoral Fellowship, Civitas Institute, UT-Austin
     
  • 2023, Caner Turan (PhD 2022), Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut (Previous: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University).
     
  • 2023, Siobhain Lash (PhD 2022), Professor of Practice, West Virginia University.
     
  • 2023, Nathan Biebel (PhD 2019), Post-Doctorial Researcher, Jagiellonian University (Previous: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Vienna).
     
  • 2022, Daniel Tigard (PhD 2018), Assistant Professor, University of San Diego (Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow in the HumTec Center at RWTH Aachen University).
     
  • 2022, Gabrielle Stanton Ray (PhD 2022), Religious Studies Post-Doctorial Fellow, Tulane University.
     
  • 2022, Chara Kokkiou (PhD 2022), Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University.
     
  • 2022, Keir Willet (PhD 2022), Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Michael's College.
     
  • 2022, Daniel Dzah (PhD 2022), Policy Analyst.
     
  • 2022, Franklin Worrell (PhD 2022), Software Development Supervisor, Intralox.
     
  • 2022, Derek Duplessie, tenure-track position, Assumption College (Previous, 2019: Visiting Instructor, Clemson University Department of Political Science; 2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University Department of Government).
     
  • 2022, Jesse Hill (PhD 2019), Research Assistant Professor, Lingnan University.
     
  • 2022, Michael Falgoust (PhD 2012), Privacy Strategic Program Manager at Facebook (Previous: Technology Ethicist, Google).
     
  • 2021, Sophy Wang (PhD 2007), Manager and Senior Vice President, Citi Global Crimes Investigation and Intelligence.
     
  • 2021, Charlie Gustafson-Barrett (PhD 2018), tenure-track position, St. John's College, Santa Fe (Previous, 2018: Visiting Faculty, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio).
     
  • 2021, April Olsen (PhD 2023), visiting position, St. John's College, Santa Fe.
     
  • 2021, Zachary Calhoun (PhD 2020), English Lecturer, Iowa State University.
     
  • 2020, Gwenda-lin Grewal (PhD 2010), Onassis Lecturer, The New School for Social Research (Previous, 2012: University of Dallas, Dept. of Classics; 2018, Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College; 2019, Blegen Research Fellow, Vassar College).
     
  • 2019, Jonny Anomaly (PhD 2011), Associate Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, University of Pennsylvania (Previously, 2010: Senior Lecturer, Duke/UNC Chapel Hill Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program).
     
  • 2019, Alexander Shaeffer (PhD 2018), Teacher, Great Hearts Academy-Northern Oaks, San Antonio, TX.
     
  • 2019, Alexandre Priou (PhD 2014), Instructor, Herbst Program in the Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder (Previous, 2016: Visiting Assitant Professor, Kutztown University; 2014: Visiting Professor, Sarah Lawrence College).
     
  • 2019, Michael Madary (PhD 2007), Assisant Professor, University of the Pacific (Previous, 2018, Visiting Assisant Professor, Tulane University; 2010: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE), Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz).
     
  • 2018, Seth Appelbaum (PhD 2015), St. John's College in Santa Fe (tenure track) (Previous: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bellarmine College Philosophy Department).
     
  • 2018, Travis Mulroy (PhD 2016), Adjunct Instructor, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut (Previous: Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Xavier University, Cincinnati).
     
  • 2018, Mary Townsend (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor, St. John's University, Queens, NY (Previous, 2016: Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans).
     
  • 2018, Nate Stout (PhD 2016), Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University School of Medicine Program for Medical Ethics and Human Values.
     
  • 2016, Paul Wilford (PhD 2016), Assistant Professor, Boston College Department of Political Science.
     
  • 2016, Sam Stoner (PhD 2014), Associate Professor, Assumption College (Previous, 2014: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Western Heritage and Philosophy, Carthage College).
     
  • 2016, Shane Courtland (PhD 2008), Director of the Center for Free Enterprise, West Virginia University (Previous, 2009: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Merrimack College).
     
  • 2016, Tom Mulligan (PhD 2015), Postdoctoral Research Associate in Economic and Ethics, Georgetown University School of Business (Previous, 2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Political Theory Project, Brown University).
     
  • 2015, Gilberto Vargas-Gonzalez (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
     
  • 2015, Christopher (Todd) Meredith (PhD 2013), Assistant Professor, Southwest Tennessee Community College.
     
  • 2015, Lamont Rodgers (PhD 2013), Full-time Instructor of Philosophy, Houston Community College.
     
  • 2015, Andrea Houchard (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor of Practice, Northern Arizona University.
     
  • 2013, Joshua Lott (PhD 2012), Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans.
     
  • 2011, Shawn Welnak (PhD 2011), Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, C. W. Post College.
     
  • 2009, Bill Glod (PhD 2008), Philosophy Program Officer, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University.
     
  • 2007, Drew Chastain (PhD 2003) Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Xavier Univ., N.O.
     
  • 2006, Julinna Oxley (PhD 2006), Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University.
     
  • 2005, Paul Haught (PhD 2004), Associate Professor and Dean of Rose School of Arts, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN.
     
  • 2004, Matthew Oberrieder (PhD 2004), Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Villanova University.
     
  • 2003, Andrew Pavelich (PhD 1999), University of Houston.
     
  • 2002, Jason Tipton (PhD 2003), St. John's College, Annapolis.
     
  • 2002, Desheng Zong (PhD 1998), Utica College.
     
  • 2000, Michael Golluber (PhD 1998), St. John's College, Santa Fe

 

Recent Dissertations

A complete list of Tulane Philosophy PhD dissertations and MA theses.

Author Title Advisor
Allen Ray

 

Political Rhetoric and Socratic Philosophy: A Study of Plato's Crito and Menexenus

Ronna Burger

Siobhain Lash

"Popular Environmental Justice Questions: A Philosophical Evaluation"

Chad Van Schoelandt

Kelly Martin

"Hume's Passion for Philosophy: The Role of Curiosity in A Treatise of Human Nature"

Richard Velkley

Gabrielle Stanton Ray

"Appealing to Heaven: Conscience, Authority, and Moral Knowledge in the Political Philosophy of John Locke"

Richard Velkley

Keir Willett

"The Intertwining of Being and Non-Being: Plato's Sophist and Heidegger"

Ronna Burger &
Richard Velkley

Chara Kokkiou

"The Value of Compassion: A Comparative Study of Emotions in Aristotle and Rousseau"

Richard Velkley

Jonathan Eng

"Plato's Alcibades: An Education Towards Self-Knowledge"

Ronna Burger

Aidan Watson

"Prudence and Law: on Plato's Minos, Laws, and Statesman"

Ronna Burger

Caner Turan

"Kantian Constitutivism as an Alternative to Moral Realism"

Oliver Sensen

Daniel Dzah

"Immigration and New Philosophies of Inclusion"

Chad Van Schoelandt

Franklin Worrell

"Peeking Through Our Fingers: Theorizing Horror and Its Appeal Through Its Genres"

Alison Denham

Aidan Watson

"Prudence and Law: Plato's Minos, Laws, and Statesman"

Ronna Burger

Eric Brown

"The Offness of Blame: In Defense of Universal Standing"

Dave Shoemaker

Marcus Hunt

"Axiological and Normative Questions about Parenthood"

Dave Shoemaker

Nicholas Sars

"Revisiting ‘Freedom and Resentment’: Or, Responsibility without a Moral"

Dave Shoemaker

Julian Katz

"From the Just State to the Kingdom of Ends: Balancing Love and Respect in Kant"

Richard Velkley

Zachary Calhoun

"Metaphysica Naturalis: Kant on History and the Discipline of Reason"

Richard Velkley

Keith Silverman

"Phenomenology and the Return of Philosophy to Life"

Richard Velkley

Daniel DeFranco

"A History of Human Physiology and 17th -Century Philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza and the Current State of Neuroscience"

Richard Velkley

Christopher Boom

"Rules, Rights, and the Rule of Law"

Eric Mack

Daniel Tigard

"The Nature and Value of Moral Distress in Medical Practice"

Dave Shoemaker

Alexander Shaeffer

"Socratic Philosophy and the Aporia of Virtue: A Commentary on Plato's Meno"

Ronna Burger

Alex Limanowski

"Beyond Epicurus: A reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura"

Ronna Burger

Nathan Biebel

"The Justification Thesis: A Theory of Culpable Ignorance"

Dave Shoemaker

Jesse Hill

"On the Nature of Luck"

Dave Shoemaker

Derek Duplessie

"Cross-Examining Aristophanes: Plato's Defense of Socrates"

Ronna Burger

Charlie Gustafson-Barrett

"The Idiot Soul of Wit: On the Genius of Hamlet and Ion"

Ronna Burger

Paul Wilford

"The Duality of Geist: Political and Theological Intersubjectivity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit"

Richard Velkley

Nathan Stout

"Moral Agency and Responsibility: Lessons from Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Dave Shoemaker

Travis Mulroy

"Delusions of Grandeur: The Interpretation of Plato's Hippias Major"

Ronna Burger

Daniel Davenport

"On the Good of Justice in Plato's Republic"

Ronna Burger

Mary Townsend

"Plato's Republic V: The Problem of Women and Philosophy"

Ronna Burger

Seth Appelbaum

"Divine Law in Plato and Maimonides"

Ronna Burger

Tom Mulligan

"The Just and Meritocratic State"

Eric Mack

Sam Stoner

"On Kant's Philosophical Authorship"

Richard Velkley

Shane Gassaway

"Socrates the Citizen Philosopher in Plato and in Xenophon"

Ronna Burger

Andrea Houchard

"A Place for Public Philosophy: Reviving a Practice"

Eric Mack

Alexandre Priou

"The Genesis of Political Philosophy: On Plato's Parmenides"

Ronna Burger

Gilberto Vargas-Gonzalez

"On Philosophical Counseling as a Philosophical Caretaking Practice"

Ronna Burger

Lamont Rodgers

"Self-Ownership an Historical Entitlement: An Examination of G.A. Cohen's Critique"

Eric Mack

Christopher Meredith

"Global Kleptocracy and the Sovereign State: an Anti-Statist Response to Thomas Pogge on the Injustice of the Present World Order"

Eric Mack

Jean-Paul Orgeron

“Language, Perception, and Space”

Radu Bogdan

Michael Falgoust

“Freeing the Culture, Freeing the Self: An Intellectual Property Rights Argument”

Bruce Brower

Joshua Lott

"The Rationality of Teleology: Purposiveness and the Concept of the Human in Kant, Rousseau, and Hume"

Richard Velkley

Shawn Welnak

"Philosophy and The Cave of Opinion: The Graeco-Arabic Tradition"

Ronna Burger

Jennifer Beers

"Socrates Confronts Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium"

Ronna Burger

Gwenda-lin Grewal

"On Plato's Euthydemus"

Ronna Burger

Hans Gruenig

"Heidegger, Death, and Personal Transformation"

Michael Zimmerman

Shane Courtland

"Hobbesian Public Reason"

Eric Mack

William Glod

"Liberalism's Case against Legal Paternalism"

Eric Mack

Quian (Sophy) Wang

"John Rawls on Human Rights"

Bruce Brower

Michael Madary

"The Perspectival Content of Perception"

Radu Bogdan

Julinna Oxley

"A Theory of Benevolence"

Jerry Gaus

Jonny Anomaly

"An Internalist Theory of Practical Reason"

Jerry Gaus

Matthew Oberrieder

"The Significance of Socrates' Quotations of Homer in Plato's Protagoras"

Ronna Burger

Drew Chastain

"Interpreting Metaphor"

Graeme Forbes