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 |
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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 & |
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 |