See the chart below for a list of recent professional placements for our departmental PhDs, arranged by year of graduation. Here is the key to the types of academic placements listed:
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Sarale Ben Asher | "Immanence and Recollection" Agnes Callard, Gabriel Lear, John Proios, Elizabeth Asmis (Classics) |
University of New Mexico (TT) |
| Greg Brown | "The Use of Reason: An Essay on Practical Wisdom" Candace Vogler (chair), Jason Bridges, and Anselm Mueller (Trier) |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Kévin Irakóze | "Transfigurative Imagination: Reclaiming Meaning and Agency in African Political Life" Jonathan Lear (chair), Dan Brudney, Adom Getachew (Political Science) |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Amy Levine | "Anxiety and the Practical Point of View" Jonathan Lear (chair), Candace Vogler, and Matthew Boyle |
Harvard University, Society of Fellows, 3 years (P) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Laurenz Ramsauer | “Form and Therapy: Kant on the Purpose and Limits of Moral Philosophy" Candace Vogler (chair), Matthew Boyle, Matthias Haase |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob Butcher | "Justice and the Good: How Should We Think About Politics?" Dan Brudney (chair), Ben Laurence, Paul Weithman (Notre Dame) |
National Labor Relations Board, Field Attorney, Subregional Office 33, Peoria, IL (O) |
| Eamon Duede | “Epistemology of AI-Infused Science” Kevin Davey (chair), James Evans, Ian Foster, Tom Pashby |
Purdue University (TT); Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow (P) |
| Melina Garibovic | "The Reality of Persons" David Finkelstein (co-chair), Matthias Haase (co-chair), and Anubav Vasudevan |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Aaron Graham | "Theoretical Disagreements, Hard Cases, and the Positivist Theory of Legal Validity" Dan Brudney (chair), Brian Leiter, Malte Willer |
University of Mississippi, Assistant Professor (TT) |
| Mathis Koschel | "The Idea of Nature – Kant and Hegel on Nature, Freedom, and Philosophical Method" Robert Pippin (chair), James Conant, Matthew Boyle, Christian Martin (University of Stuttgart) |
University of Southern California, Postdoctoral Scholar (P) |
| Ermioni Prokopaki | "Understanding the Threat of Relativism in the Theaetetus of Plato" Gabriel Lear (chair), Agnes Callard, and Jason Bridges |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Joshua Trubowitz | "Spontaneous Activity and Truthfulness in Aristotle’s Theory of Perception" Gabriel Lear (chair), Agnes Callard, and Matthew Boyle |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (P) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Brewer | "Kant on Time and Human Cognition" Matthew Boyle (chair), Jim Conant, and Michael Kremer |
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| Molly Brown | "On Starting Points" Kevin Davey and Anubav Vasudevan (co-chairs), Michael Kremer, and Meghan Page (Loyola University, Maryland) |
Grand Rapids Community College (TT); University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Daniel Burnfin | “Greater than Itself: Value, Capital, and Involuntary Unemployment in Classical Political Economy” Anton Ford (co-chair; Eric Santner (Germanic Studies, co-chair); Matthias Haase |
University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Pirachula Chulanon | "Kant and the Origin of the Concept of Mind" Matthew Boyle (chair), Jim Conant, Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt Berlin), and Eric Watkins (UC San Diego) |
Ryerson University (TT) |
| Ryan Simonelli | "Meaning and the World" Michael Kremer (co-chair), Malte Willer (co-chair), James Conant, Jason Bridges, and Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh) |
Wuhan University, International Research Fellow, 2 years (P); University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Arnold Brooks | Change and Continuity in Aristotle's Physics 6 Gabriel Lear, Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Indiana, Bloomington), Benjamin Morrison (Princeton), Marko Malink (NYU) |
University of Chicago, Assistant Instructional Professor, Department of Philosophy (I) |
| Shana Crandell | Action and the Actuality of Reason: A Study of Hegel’s Idea of the Good Robert Pippin (chair), Matthias Haase, and Christian Martin (MLU--Munich) |
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| Lawrence Dallman | "Marx’s Naturalism: A Study in Philosophical Methodology" Committee: Robert Richards (co-chair), Brian Leiter (co-chair, Law School), Michael Forster (Bonn), Matthias Haase |
Bryn Mawr College (TT); University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Joshua Fox | Existential Pessimism and Aesthetic Experience: Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Life’s Value Martha Nussbaum (co-chair), Brian Leiter (co-chair, Law School), and Agnes Callard |
Bryn Mawr College (TT); University of Chicago, Teaching Fellow (P) |
| Andrew Pitel | "Kant's Critique of Rationalism: Substance, Essence, Noumenon" Matthew Boyle (chair), James Conant, Michael Kremer, Daniel Moerner, and Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois Chicago) |
Assistant Instructional Professor in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, the Department of Philosophy, and the College (L); University of Chicago, Lecturer, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (L) |
| Thomas Schulte | "The Transformation of "Self-Consciousness" in Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit" Robert Pippin (chair), James Conant, and Christopher Yeomans (Purdue) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Pascal Brixel | "Freedom" Ford (chair), Brudney, Laurence, and Julius (UCLA) |
Northwestern University (TT); Clemson University (TT) |
| Charlie Capps | "Accomplice Liability" Vogler (chair), Ford, Mueller (Trier), and Lakier (Law School) |
Arizona State Law School (TT); Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Judicial Law Clerk, 2 Years (O) |
| Skomantas Pocius | "Truthfulness: An Examination of Bernard Williams' Virtues of Truth" Pippin and J. Lear |
McKinsey, Management Consulting Associate (O) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Elena Comay del Junco | "Aristotle's Cosmological Ethics" Nussbaum and G. Lear (co-chairs) and Shields (Notre Dame) |
University of Connecticut (TT); University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics (P) |
| Roger Eichorn | "Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the Legacy of Skepticism" Conant (chair), Finkelstein, and Vasudevan |
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| Katie Howe | “Having a Body and Having a Perspective: An Account of Proprioceptive Awareness” Finkelstein (chair), Bridges, and Ford |
University of Chicago (Writing Specialist, University Writing Program); University of Chicago (I) |
| Claire Kirwin | "Value Realism and the First-Person Perspective" A. Callard and Finkelstein (co-chairs), Vogler, Leiter |
Northwestern University (TT); University of Chicago. Preceptor, Master of Arts in Humanities Program (I) |
| Josh Mendelsohn | "Aristotle on the Necessity of What We Know" Nussbaum (chair), A. Callard, Kremer, and Malink (NYU) |
Loyola University Chicago (TT) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Amichai Amit | "Intrinsically Rational Desires and Holism of Justifications" Vogler (Chair), Müller, Ford, A. Callard, and Haase |
Tel Aviv University (P) |
| Amos Browne | "Acting for a Reason: A Wittgensteinian Approach" Bridges (chair), Conant, and Finkelstein |
University of Chicago, Preceptor, Master of Arts in Humanities Program (I) |
| Dawn Chow | “Analogical Models of God: An Account of Religious Language” Stern (chair), Kremer, and Conant |
College of DuPage (TT); Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame University (P) |
| Michael Crema | "Love and Friendship in Early Plato" G. Lear (co-chair), Nussbaum (co-chair), and Ford |
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield (UX Researcher); University of Chicago (Researcher and Instructor) |
| Jaime Edwards | "The Concept of Ideology" Leiter (co-chair), Brudney (co-chair), Forster, and Nussbaum |
St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin (TT) |
| Simon Gurofsky | "Making Kant's Empirical Realism Possible" Pippin (chair), Kremer, and Brook (Carleton University) |
Carleton University (Canada) (L); Leipzig University (P) |
| Nethanel Lipshitz | "A Defense of Basic Equality" Nussbaum (co-chair), Leiter (co-chair), and Brudney |
Bar-Ilan University (TT); University of Chicago Law School (P) |
| Zachary Loveless | "Principled Virtue" Vogler (chair), Brudney, and Ford |
Hyde Park Institute, Director of Programming and Operations (O) |
| Rory O'Connell | “The Efficacy of the Good” Vogler (chair), Bridges, A. Callard, Ford, and Haase |
University of California, Irvine (TT); University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities (L) |
| Stephen Shortt | "Practical Beauty" Vogler (chair), Brudney, and Ford |
Auburn University (L) |
| Daniel Telech | "In Praise of Praise" A. Callard (co-chair), Leiter (co-chair), and Russell (University of British Columbia/Lund University) |
Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (P, 5-year) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Anastasia Artemyev Berg | "Freedom, Feeling and Character: The Unity of Reason and Sensibility in Kant's Practical Philosophy" Pippin (chair), Conant, Boyle, and Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh) |
University of California, Irvine (TT); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University (P, 3-year) |
| Dhananjay Jagannathan | "The Labors of Wisdom" G. Lear (co-chair), Nussbaum (co-chair), and Kraut (Northwestern University) |
Columbia University (TT); Dartmouth College (L) |
| Gilad Nir | "Wittgenstein on Inference" Kremer (co-chair), Conant (co-chair), Vasudevan, and Diamond (University of Virginia) |
University of Jena (P); Leipzig University (P) |
| Francey Russell | "Self-Opacity, Ethics, and Agency" Vogler (chair), Brudney, and J. Lear |
Barnard College (TT); Yale University, Humanities Program (L, 2-year) |
| Jessica Tizzard | "Sense-Dependent Rationalism: Finding the Unity in Kant's Practical Philosophy" Pippin (chair), Vogler, Brudney, and Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh) |
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Akademische Ratsstelle auf Zeit, 6 years); University of Connecticut (P, 3-year) |
| Andrew Werner | "Hegel's Speculative Method" Pippin, Bridges, Franks (Yale), and Gobsch (Leipzig University) |
Amherst College (V, 2018-); Yale University (L, 2017-18) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Santiago Mejia | "Ethical Development and the Varieties of Self-Knowledge" Nussbaum (chair), Finkelstein, and Sherman (Georgetown University) |
Fordham University (TT); Occidental College (P) |
| Daniel Rodriguez-Navas | "Foucault's Ethical Project and the Normativity of Ethical Claims" Davidson (chair), Benoist (Paris--Sorbonne), Ford, and Moati |
New School for Social Research (TT); Middlebury College (P, 2-year) |
| Tuomo Tiisala | "Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons" Davidson (chair), Pippin, and Harcourt (UChicago Political Science) |
Helsinki University (L); New York University (P, 2-year, 1 extra year at NYU Abu Dhabi) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Bell | "Elizabeth Anscombe's Wittgensteinian Third Way in Philosophy of Mind: A Thomist Critique" Pippin (chair), Vogler, and Mueller |
Campion College, Sydney, Australia (Lecturer and Tutor) |
| Nir Ben-Moshe | "Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons" Nussbaum (co-chair), Leiter (co-chair), Brudney, and Fleischacker (University of Illinois--Chicago) |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (TT) |
| Silver Bronzo | "Words, Sentences, and Speech Acts: An Interpretation and Defense of the Context Principle" Conant (chair), Kremer, Stern, and Diamond (University of Virginia) |
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (TT); Auburn University (L) |
| Judy Hensley | "Equity Strikes Back: The Lost Ideal of Aristotelian Equitable Justice in Contemporary Statutory Interpretation" Kremer (chair), Brudney, Ford, and Stone (New School for Social Research) |
Roberts & Holland, LLP, Partner (O) |
| David Holiday | "Moral Incapacity: The Shadows Cast by Character" Vogler (chair), Brudney, and Laurence (UChicago Human Rights) |
Jackson Center for Ethics and Values, Coastal Carolina University (P, 2015) |
| Nic Koziolek | "Representing Reason" Kremer (chair), Stern, Willer, and Malink (New York University) |
Washington University in St. Louis (L, 2018); Auburn University (L, 2015-16, renewable) |
| Peter Murray | "The Causal Efficacy of Contentful Mental States: Towards a Rational Naturalism" Conant (chair), Finkelstein, and Bridges |
Skidmore College (V, 2015-16) |
| Daniel Smyth | "Infinity and Givenness: Kant's Critical Theory of Sensibility" Pippin (chair), Conant, and Schechtmant (University of Wisconsin--Madison), and Sutherland (Illinois--Chicago) |
Wesleyan University (TT, 2017); Cornell University (P, 2015) |
| Matt Teichman | “Characterizing Kinds: A Semantics for a Generic Sentences” Bridges (co-chair), Kennedy (UChicago Linguistics, co-chair), and Willer |
University of Chicago Library (Programming Specialist, Digital Library Development Center); University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities (L, 2015-16, renewable) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Hopwood | "Love's Work: Eros and Moral Agency" Vogler (chair), J. Lear, Brudney, and A. Callard |
Sewanee: The University of the South (TT, 2014) |
| Alyssa Luboff | "On the Ground: Opening a Coherent Space for the Insights of Cultural Relativism" Forster, Vogler, Vasudevan, and Shweder (UChicago Comparative Human Development) |
Self-Employed (Healer and Counselor); Grand Valley State University (V, 2014-17) |
| Tucker McKinney | "Heidegger on Human Finitude and Normative Governance" Pippin (chair), J. Lear, and Blattner (Georgetown) |
Self-Employed (Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer); College of William and Mary (V, 2014) |
| Jennifer Rothschild | "Striving to Be Better: Incomplete Character and the Unity of the Virtues" Nussbaum (chair), Vogler, and Ford |
University of Florida (TT, 2014) |
| Joshua Schwartz | “Quine, Disquotation, and Truth” Kremer (Chair), Stern, and Davey |
University of Virginia (V); California State University, San Bernardino (L, 2014) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Stina Bäckström | "The Mind's Movement: A New Account of Expressive Action" Finkelstein (chair), Bridges, A. Callard, and Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) |
Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University, Stockholm (TT, tenured); Kone Foundation, Åbo Academy University in Finland (P, 2013) |
| Rachel Goodman | "Singular Thought: Making the Most of the Notion" Stern (Chair), Bridges, Conant, and Kremer |
University of Illinois Chicago (TT, 2019); University of Nebraska--Lincoln (TT, 2016) |
| Lisa Hicks | "The Ascetic Ideal and the Will to Power: A Reading of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Essay Three" Nussbaum (chair), Forster, and Larmore (Brown University) |
Stanford Online High School (Teacher); Structured Liberal Education Program, Stanford University (P, 2013, renewable) |
| Josef Lubenow | "On the Foundations of Human Rights" Nussbaum (chair), Laurence, Gooding-Williams (UChicago Political Science) |
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| Clark Remington | "Originary Temporality: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time and His Intepretation of Kant" Conant, Forster, Rödl (University of Basel), and Blattner (Georgetown University) |
Law Offices of Clark A. Remington (Lawyer); University of Chicago Law School (L, 2012-) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Aidan Gray | "Names and Name-Bearing: An Essay on the Predicate View of Names" Stern (chair), Kremer, and Kennedy (UChicago Linguistics) |
University of Illinois--Chicago (TT, 2012) |
| Rafeeq Hasan | "Obligation and Happiness in Rousseau" Pippin (chair), Brudney, and Nussbaum |
Amherst College (TT, 2015); University of Chicago (P, 2012) |
| Thomas Lockhart | "Frege, Singular Terms and Logical Objects" Kremer (chair), Conant, and Stern |
Auburn University (TT, 2012); Quinnipac University (TT, 2011) |
| Ryan Long | "Responsibility and Equality" Nussbaum, Brudney, and Deigh (University of Texas) |
Thomas Jefferson University (TT, 2012); University of Chicago Law School (P, 2011) |
| Colin Patrick | "Internalism, Practical Relations, and Psychologism" Vogler (chair), Pippin, and Larmore (Brown University) |
Portland State University (L, 2012) |
| Will Small | "Two Kinds of Practical Knowledge" Vogler (chair), Bridges, Conant, and Ford |
University of Illinois--Chicago (TT, 2014) |
| Nate Zuckerman | "Heidegger's Notion of Originary Temporality" Pippin (chair), J. Lear, and Carman (Columbia University) |
Highland School (High School Social Studies Teacher); University of Puget Sound (V, 2012) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Kristin Boyce | “Why Wander into Fiction? Analytic Philosophy and the Case Study of Henry James” Conant (co-chair), Kremer (co-chair), Brudney, and J. Lear |
Mississippi State University (TT, 2014) |
| John Hannon | "Aristotle's Conception of Science: The Case of On Youth and Old Age, and Life and Death, and Respiration" Nussbaum (chair), Asmis (UChicago Classics), and Richards |
Justkul (CEO); Research Pros (Executive Director of Client Services) |
| Erica Holberg | "Pleasure and the Nature of the Ethical Subject" Vogler (chair), G. Lear, and J. Lear |
Utah State University (TT, 2011) |
| Jennifer Lockhart | "Kierkegaard: Indirect Communication and Ignorant Knowledge" J. Lear (chair), Brudney, A. Callard, and Conant |
Auburn University (TT, 2012); Stanford University (P, 2011) |
| Micah Lott | "Human Form and Moral Goodness" Pippin (chair), G. Lear, Ford, and Müller |
Boston College (TT, 2012); Asian University for Women (TT, 2011) |
| Justin Shaddock | "Kant's Transcendental Methodology: An Essay on Justification, Objectivity, and Subjectivity in Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories" Pippin (chair), Forster, Ameriks (Notre Dame), and Franks (Toronto) |
Williams College (TT, 2017); Williams College (V, 2014) |
| Charles Todd | "Life Interrupted: Akrasia, Action, and Active Irrationality" Vogler (chair), Nussbaum, G. Lear, and A. Callard |
University of Chicago (Deputy Dean of Students, the College) |
| Julio Tuma | "Biological Boundaries" Wimsatt (chair), Richards, Perlman (UChicago Medical School), and Weil (Illinois Institute of Technology) |
University of Pennsylvania (L, Integrated Studies, 2012) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Elliott | "Prudent Virtues" Vogler (chair), Davidson, J. Lear, Brudney, and G. Lear |
Bard College (TT, 2013) |
| Daesuk Han | "Clarity and Silence, A Nonstandard Reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-philosophicus" Kremer (chair), Conant, and Stern |
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| Nathaniel Hansen | “Radical Contextualism” Stern (chair), Conant, Kremer, Bridges, and Finkelstein |
University of Reading, UK (L, 2012); Umeå University, Sweden (P, 2012) |
| Karolina Hübner | "Spinoza on Substance as Cause" Davidson (chair), Larmore (Brown University), Melamed (Johns Hopkins University), and Nadler (University of Wisconsin--Madison) |
Cornell University (Associate Professor, 2019); University of Toronto (TT, 2010; tenure 2016) |
| Thomas Land | "Kant's Theory of Synthesis" Conant (chair), Pippin, Kremer, and Sutherland (University of Illinois--Chicago) |
Ryerson University, Toronto (TT) |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Current / Previous Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Groll | "'It's My Life and I'll Do What I Want': Valuing Autonomy" Nussbaum (chair), Bridges, Brudney, Kraut (Northwestern University), and G. Lear |
Carleton College (TT, 2009; tenure 2015) |
| David Possen | "The Requirement Must Be Heard: Rigor in the Thought and Work of Søren Kierkegaard" J. Lear and Conant |
Yale University (P, 2009); University of Copenhagen (TT) |
| Irina Ruvinsky | "The Circle of Time: Hermeneutic Structure of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" Forster (chair), Larmore (Brown University), and Pavel (UChicago Social Thought) |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (L, 2008) |
| Daniel Wack | "The Gangster on the Couch: Forms of Artistic Explanation, Gotthold Lessing, and The Sopranos" Conant, Vogler, and Davidson |
Knox College (TT, 2009; tenure 2014) |
| Katherine Withy | “Heidegger on Being Uncanny” J. Lear (chair), Haugeland, Davidson, and Santner (UChicago Germanic Studies) |
Georgetown University (TT, 2009; tenure 2015) |
