Graduate Student Placement Since 2000
- 2024, Trevor Griffith (PhD 2024), Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University.
- 2024, Nicolas Allmaier (PhD 2024), Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University.
- 2024, April Olsen (PhD 2024), Visiting Faculty, St. John's College, Santa Fe.
- 2024, Allen Ray (PhD 2023), Ogden Honor's College Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, LSU.
- 2023, Gabrielle Stanton Ray (PhD 2022), Ogden Honors College Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, LSU (Previous: Religious Studies Post-Doctorial Fellow, Tulane University)
- 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, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trevor Griffith | "Phenomenological Perspectices on Scientific Rationalism and Its Consequences for Contemporary Thought" | Richard Velkley |
| April Olsen | "How to Divide an Audience: Reading Plato's Apology of Socrates with Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric" | Ronna Burger |
| Nicolas Allmaier | "Hamann: Analogy, Enlightenment, and Faith" | Richard Velkley |
| 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 |