Department of Philosophy

Recent Placement and Alumni News

  • Nicolas Allmaier (PhD 2024) will begin a position as Visiting Lyceum Scholar, Clemson University in Fall 2025 (Previous: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University)
  • April Olsen (PhD 2024) will begin a tenure track position at St. John's College, Santa Fe, in Fall 2025 (Previous: Visiting Faculty, St. John's College, Santa Fe)
  • Paul Wilford (PhD 2016) will begin a position as Associate Teaching Professor, Chase Center at Ohio State University, in Fall 2025 (Previous: Assistant Professor, Boston College Department of Political Science).
  • Cynthia Ma (ABD) will begin a position as Post-Doctorial Fellowship, UT-Austin in Fall 2025.
  • Evan Coulter (ABD) will begin a position as Post-Doctorial Fellowship, UT-Austin in Fall 2025.
  • Gabrielle Ray (PhD 2022), Ogden Honors College Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, LSU
  • Allen Ray (PhD 2023), Teaching classes in LSU Honors College
  • Jonathan Eng (PhD 2022), Visiting Instructor, Dept. of English & Philosophy, Arkansas State University
  • Maura Cowan (ABD), Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Civitas Institute, University of Texas, Austin
  • Caner Turan (PhD, 2022) begia a tenure-track position at the American University of Beirut in Fall 2023.
  • Siobhain Lash (PhD, 2022) began a position as Professor of Practice at West Virginia University in Fall 2023.
  • Daniel Tigard (PhD, 2018) began a tenure-track position at the University of San Diego.
  • Keith Silverman (PhD, 2020) was elected to the Danville, VA School Board.
  • Alex Priou (PhD, 2014) began conducting, with two colleagues, a political philosophy podcast, The New Thinkery.
  • Derek Duplessie (PhD, 2018) began a tenure track position at Assumption College in Fall 2022.
  • Gwenda-lin Grewal (PhD, 2010) began a position at the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language at the New School of Social Research.
  • Congratulations to Cynthia Ma and Trevor Griffith for receiving the Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2022! The award was previously received by Evan Coulter and Keir Willett for 2021 and by Alyssa Walker and Chara Kokkiou for 2020.
  • Sabrina Leeds (MA, 2019) taught an 8-week course in philosophy at Project Lazarus in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. Sabrina's work was featured in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts Magazine. The course was then taught by Jerome Romagosa (MA, 2019) in Fall 2019.
  • Jason Tipton (PhD, 2003) had three papers included in the Journal of the History of Biology's list of the top 25 papers on Aristotle's biology in the past 50 years.
  • Alex Priou (PhD, 2014) organized, with two others, a political philosophy podcast, The New Thinkery.
  • Charlie Gustafson-Barrett (PhD, 2018) began a tenure-track position at St. John's College, Santa Fe.
  • April Olsen (ABD) began a visition position at St. John's College, Santa Fe.
  • Samuel Stoner (PhD, 2014) and Paul Wilford (PhD, 2015) published an anthology dedicated to Richard Velkley, Kant and the Possibility of Progress (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), including essays by Stoner, Wilford, and Velkley, as well as Oliver Sensen.
  • Nathan Stout (PhD, 2016) began a position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program for Medical Ethics & Human Values, Tulane University School of Medicine.
  • Alexander Shaeffer (PhD, 2018) will begin teaching in Fall 2019 at Great Hearts Academy-Northern Oaks in San Antonio, TX, a high school with a classical liberal arts curriculum.
  • Shane Gassaway (PhD, 2014) is the author of "Just Silence in Plato's Cleitophon ," Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought , forthcoming.
  • Samuel Stoner (PhD, 2014), Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of Assumption College since 2016, has a paper, "Lessing and the Art of History," accepted for publication in The Journal of the History of Philosophy.
  • Seth Appelbaum (PhD, 2015), who began a tenure-track position at St. John's College Santa Fe in Spring 2018, was a faculty member in the 2019 Maimonides Scholars Program of the Tikvah Fund at Yale: https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/seth-appelbaum/
  • Travis Mulroy (PhD, 2016) is currently Religious Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tulane, after a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Xavier University, Cincinnati in Spring 2019. His paper, "On the Difficulty of Beautiful Things: Political Virtue and Wisdom in Plato's Hippias Major ," was published in the Spring 2019 issue of the journal Ancient Philosophy and a second paper, "Censuring Oneself: On Socrates' Rhetorical Device in Plato's Hippias Major ," has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of that journal.
  • Dan Tigard (PhD, 2018) published three papers: "The Positive Value of Moral Distress," Bioethics (2019);"Taking the Blame: Appropriate Responses to Medical Error,"Journal of Medical Ethics (2019); "Moral Distress as a Symptom of Dirty Hands," Res Publica (2018). He recently began a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the HumTec Center at RWTH Aachen University (Germany).
  • Mary Townsend (PhD, 2015) was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at St.John's University in Queens, NY. She was previously appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola University, New Orleans. Her book, The Woman Question in Plato's Republic, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2017.
  • Derek Duplessie (PhD, 2018) was appointed as a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. He was previously appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University for 2018-2019. His article "Erotic Revolutions in Ecclesiazusae and Republic V" will appear early next year as a chapter in an edition published by Mercer University Press, and his article "Socrates' Analysis of Comedy in Plato's Philebus" won the Review of Metaphysics Dissertation Essay Contest and will be published in their upcoming edition.
  • Charlie Gustasfson-Barrett (PhD, 2018) was appointed as Visiting Faculty at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Alexandre Priou (PhD, 2014) will begin a position as Instructor in the Herbst Program in the Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Fall 2019. He was previously appointed in 2016 as Visiting Assistant Professor at Kutztown University. His book, Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato's Parmenides, was published by University of Rochester Press in 2018.
  • Shane Courtland (PhD, 2008) was appointed as Director of the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University.
  • Tom Mulligan (PhD, 2015) was appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Economics and Ethics at the Georgetown University School of Business. His book, Justice and the Meritocratic State, was published by Routledge in 2017.
  • Paul Wilford (PhD, 2016) was appointed Assistant Professor at Boston College in the Department of Political Science. He co-edited and contributed to Athens, Arden, and Jerusalem (Lexington Books, 2017). He recently began a Research Fellowship in the James Madison Program at Princeton for 2019-20.
  • Michael Madary (PhD, 2007) published Visual Phenomenology with the MIT Press in 2016. He previously co-edited Perception, Action, and Consciousness (Oxford, 2010). He was recently appointed Assistant Professor at the University of the Pacific.
  • Mircea Dumitru (PhD, 1998) was elected Rector of the University of Bucharest in Romania and currently serves as Minister of Education and Scientific Research in the Romanian government.