DISSERTATIONS AND PLACEMENTS

Laura McMahon, PhD, 2015, Eastern Michigan University, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) "Vulnerability and Security: Perception and Politics in Merleau-Ponty"

Christopher Davidson, PhD 2014, Mount St. Joseph University Professor (tenure-track) & co-editor of the Radical Philosophy Review "Ethics After the Genealogy of the Subject"

John-Patrick Schultz, PhD 2014, Peirce College, Associate Professor of General Studies full-time, (non-tenure), “Revolutionary Temporality: Marx, Bloch, Benjamin"

Michael Vendsel, PhD 2014, Tarrant County College, Associate Professor  "Beyond Immanence and Critique: A Renewed Reading of the Ontological Argument"

Liam Kavanagh, PhD 2014, Villanova University, Augustine & Culture Seminar Program, Assistant Professor "Principles of Reason: Alasdair MacIntyre and Jacques Derrida"

Lee Cole, PhD, 2014, Hillsdale College, Associate Professor, (tenured) "At the Limits of Realism: St. Thomas Aquinas and the Intellectual Knowledge of Singulars"

Sarah Vitale, PhD, 2014, Ball State University, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) "Marx and the Metaphysics of Production"

Neil Brophy, PhD, 2014, Towson University, (lecturer, one year renewable)
"Power, Life and the Art of Government:  Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Politics"

Erika Kidd, PhD, 2014, Assistant Professor and Director of the Graduate Program of Catholic Studies at University of St. Thomas, Minn. (tenure-track) "Verbum et Vita: A Reading of Augustine's De magistro"

Timothy Jussaume, PhD, 2014, Saint Leo University, Assistant Professor (tenure track) "Heidegger and the Nothing:  Transcendence After Metaphysics"

Jeffrey Gower, PhD, 2014, Wabash College, Assistant Professor, (tenured) "The Sovereign Living Law:  Onto-theology and Normativity in Aristotle's Metaphysics"

John Garner, PhD, 2014, University of West Georgia, Assistant Professor (tenured) "The Good that Comes to Be:  The Truth of Pleasure and the Experience of Learning in Plato's Philebus"

James Butler, PhD, 2013 "Aristotle and the Science of Perception"

Michael Olson, PhD, 2013, Marquette University, (tenured) Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Marquette Core Curriculum.
"Kant's Transcendental and Metaphysical Idealism"

Rebecca Steiner Goldner, PhD, 2013, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. (tenure-track) "Lived Flesh: Touch and Embodiment in Aristotle's de Anima"

Jacob Wortman, PhD, 2013 "The Ecstatic Character of Being: The Intricate Interrelationship Between the Later Heidegger and the Later Merleau-Ponty"

Christopher Ruth, PhD, 2012, Ocean County College, NJ (full-time, fixed term renewable) "Sheltering Singularity: Marx, Heidegger and the Question of Alienation"

Raoni Padui, PhD, 2012, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (tenure-track) "From the Transcendental to the Ontological: Hegel, Heidegger and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism"

Geoffrey Karabin, PhD, 2012, Neumann University, Assistant Professor, (full-time) “The Afterlife and Aggression: Creating Hell to Attain Heaven?”

Snezhina Gabova, PhD, 2011, Risk Monitor: Public Policy Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria "Hegel and Heidegger and the question of the work of art (focusing on Hegel's Aesthetics and Phenomenology and Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art)"

Michael Norton, PhD, 2011, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Assistant Professor and Chair (tenured) “Thinking Religion as More than One:  A Deconstructive Appeal for Pluralism”

Alexi Kukuljevic, PhD, 2009, Artist & Lecturer, at the Kunsttheorie at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Berlin (University of Applied Arts Vienna) "The Renaissance of Ontology: Kant, Heidegger, Deleuze"

Nazareth Pantaloni, PhD, 2010, Indiana University, Assistant Director for Copyright and Administration at the Cook Music Library "The Im/Possibility of Democracy: Derrida and Habermas"

P. Taylor Trussell, PhD, 2009 "The Gift of Power: Foucault, Derrida, and Normalization"

Edward Kazarian, PhD, 2009, Rowan University (adjunct) "The Science of Events: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis"

Andrew Davis, PhD, 2009, Belmont University, Associate Professor (tenured) "Living Method: From the Regulative to the Constitutive Idea in Hegel's Logic"

Ashley Vaught, PhD, 2008, Villanova University, (adjunct) Augustine and Culture Seminar Department “The Specter of Spinoza in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift”

Adriel M. Trott, PhD, 2008, Wabash College, Professor,  Department Chair and the Andrew T. and Anne Ford Chair (tenured)
"The Challenge of Physis: Reconcilling Nature and Reason in Aristotle's Politics"

Michael Brogan (†), PhD, 2007, St. John's College - Annapolis, tutor (tenured) "The Good Against Being: Ethics and Ontology in Emmanuel Levinas"

Daniel Greenspan, PhD, 2006, Adjunct Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills "Kierkegaard and the Rebirth of Tragedy: Philosophy, Poetry and the Problem of the Irrational (with constant reference to Aristotle and Sophocles)"

Joshua Alan Ramey, PhD, 2006, Grinnell College, Assistant Professor (tenure track) "Gilles Deleuze and the Powers of Art"

Matthew Groe, PhD, 2006, Jacksonville University, Associate Professor, (tenured) "Ethical Coexistence Beyond Dualism: The Converging Visions of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty"

Judd Seth Wright, PhD, 2006, St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, Director of Adult Faith Formation "The Foundations of Productive History in Mimesis and Narrative Identity"

Michael Marx Shaw, PhD, 2006, Utah Valley University, Professor, (tenured) "The Role of Desire in Aristotle's Ontology"

Andrea Margaret Hurst, PhD, 2006, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, (tenured) "Derrida or Lacan: The Revolutionary's Choice On the 'Plural Logic Of the Aporia' in Deconstruction and Lacanian Psychoanalysis"

Gregory Hoskins, PhD, 2005, Villanova University, Teaching Professor, Assistant Director of the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program (ACSP) "The Politics of Memory: A Philosophical Investigation"

Adam Miller, PhD, 2005, Collin College (tenure track) "Immanent Grace: Badiou, Marion, & Saint Paul"

John Whitmire, PhD, 2005, Western Carolina University - Associate Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair (tenured) "On the Subject of Autobiography: Finding a Self in the Works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Derrida"

Timothy Kirk, PhD, 2004, City University of New York-York College, Professor & Department Chair (tenured) "The Moral Significance of Intimacy in Nurse-Patient Relationships"

Ammon Allred, PhD, 2004, University of Toledo, Associate Professor (tenured) "The Lyrical Age: Reconfiguring Metaphysics, Modernity, and Poetry in the Thought of Martin Heidegger"

Lucio Privitello, PhD, 2003, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department (tenured) "Animality and Laughter: Contributions to a Theory at the Borders of Philosophical Discourse (Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille)"

Farhang Erfani, PhD, 2003, American University, Associate Professor  (tenured), Research Associate, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa "Left on the Road to Utopia: Social Imaginary in the Age of Democracy"

Dana S. Belu, PhD, 2003, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Associate Professor and Chair, (tenured)  "Thinking Again: Heidegger on Technology and the Place of Freedom"

Michael Andrews, PhD, 2002, Director of the John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, located in Rome, Italy "Contributions to the Phenomenology of Empathy: Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Emmanuel Levinas"

Jamey Findling, PhD, 2002, Newman University, Associate Professor (tenured) "The Dialectic of Being: Gadamer's Reading of Plato"

Shannon Mussett, PhD, 2002, Utah Valley University, Professor (tenured)  "Binding Nature and Freedom: Hegelian Themes of Liberation and Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir"

Sarah Donovan, PhD, 2002, Wagner College, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Interim Dean of Integrated Learning (tenured) "Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray: Feminist Resources for Overcoming Oppressive Exclusions"

Joseph Berendzen, PhD, 2002, Loyola, New Orleans, Associate Professor (tenured) "Toward an Existential Critical Theory of Deliberative Democracy"

Stephen Finn, PhD, 2002, United States Military Academy, Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence "The Political Influence: Hobbes's Politics and Natural Philosophy"

Christian Diehm, PhD, 2001, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Associate Professor (tenured) "The Gravity of Nature: Other-than-human Others in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas"

Darin Crawford Gates, PhD, 2001, Brigham Young University (one-year renewable) "The Ontological Disclosure and Ethical Exposure of Meaning in Heidegger and Levinas"

Theodore D. George, PhD, 2000, Texas A&M University, Professor, (tenured) "Hegel's Speculative Theory of Political Life: Community and Tragedy in the Phenomenology of Spirit"

Matthias Fritsch, PhD, 1999, Concordia University, Professor, (tenured)  "Benjamin, Derrida, and the Politics of Memory: The Promise of History Reconsidered"

James K.A. Smith, PhD, 1999, Calvin College, Professor, (tenured) and the Endowed Chair of The Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview "How to Avoid Not Speaking: On the Phenomenological Possibility of Theology"

Jennifer Anna Gosetti, PhD, 1999, Fordham University, Professor, (tenured) "Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Languages