Placement Services and Success
The Placement Committee assists graduate student with preparation for the job market. Current activities of the Placement Committee include administering Graduate Travel Awards, scheduling placement workshops, and facilitating mock interviews and job talks.
2012-2013 Placement Committee
Naomi Zack, Chair
Peter Warnek, Graduate Travel Awards Coordinator
Colin Koopman
Carolin Lundquist, Graduate Representative
Ted Toadvine, ex officio
Our graduates have an established track-record of successful placement in tenure-track positions at liberal arts colleges and research universities. A record of our most recent placement success is included at the bottom of this page.
- Placement Guide (2012-2013)
- Placement Workshops
- Mock Interviews and Job Talks
- Preparing Teaching Portfolios
- Philosophy Ph.D. Placement Over the Last Twenty Years
Placement Workshops
The Placement Committee Chair will meet with students on the job market early in the year to plan with them what kinds of workshops will be most useful. An initial workshop will review the three stages of the application process (assembling application materials, preparing for interviews, on-campus interviews, and job talks). Other workshops will be arranged as requested, and may include: publication, dissertation writing, interdisciplinary job searches, electronic CVs and teaching videos, etc.
The next Placement Workshop is scheduled for 4-6pm on Friday 31 May 2013 in 314 PLC. Contact Naomi Zack at nzack@uoregon.edu for additional information.
Mock Interviews and Job Talks
Upon request, the Placement Committee will schedule mock interviews and/or job talks with job candidates. You are highly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity.
Preparing Teaching Portfolios
The Teaching Effectiveness Program offers hints for the development of a teaching portfolio that can be effective for communicating teaching skills to prospective employers. Visit their Teaching Portfolio page here:
http://tep.uoregon.edu/services/portfolio/portfolio.html
Philosophy PhD Placement over the last twenty years
followed by MA Placement
| Year | Doctoral Recipient | Dissertation Title and Advisor | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Caroline Rebecca Lundquist | Impossible and Necessary: The Problem of Luck and the Promise of Kindness (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
TBA |
| 2012 | Kara Barnette | Necessary Error: Josiah Royce, Communal Inquiry, and Feminist Epistemology (Advisor: Scott L. Pratt) |
Visiting Instructor in Philosophy and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Anne Caldwell | Embodiment and Agency: The Concept of Growth in John Dewey's Philosophy of Education (Advisor: Scott L. Pratt) |
Adjunct Instructor, |
| 2012 | Alfred Frankowski | The Cassandra Complex: On Violence, Racism, and Mourning (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, |
| 2012 | José Jorge Mendoza | On Immigration Enforcement and Expulsion Strategies: A Moral and Political Defense of Immigrant Rights (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University |
| 2011 | Sarah LaChance Adams | The Ethics of Ambivalence: Maternity, Intersubjectivity and Ethics in Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir (Advisor: Beata Stawarska) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Superior |
| 2011 | Amrita Banerjee | Re-conceiving “Borders”: A Feminist Pragmatic Phenomenology for Postcolonial Feminist Ethics and Politics (Advisors: Scott Pratt and Bonnie Mann) | Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 2011 | Elena Cuffari | Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition (Advisor: Mark Johnson) | Post-doctoral fellowship as Experience Researcher with TESIS (Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity) project in San Sebastián, Spain. |
| 2011 | Emma Jones | Speaking at the Limit: The Ontology of Luce Irigaray's Ethics, In Dialogue with Lacan and Heidegger (Advisors: Alejandro Vallega and Beata Stawarska) | Grant Writer, STAND! for Families Free of Violence |
| 2011 | Jason Jordan | Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Visiting Philosophy Instructor, Linfield College |
| 2011 | Thomas Nail | Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Advisor: Ted Toadvine) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver (current) Postdoctoral Instructor in Continental Philosophy, University of Denver (initial) |
| 2011 | Paul Qualtere-Burcher | Rethinking the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Physician's Philosophical Perspective (Advisor: Naomi Zack) | Assistant Professor of Bioethics at the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| 2011 | Grant Silva | Thinking about Justice from "the Outside" of Nationality: Latin American Philosophical Reflections on Legal-Citizenship, Nationality, Race and Racism (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (current) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York (initial) |
| 2010 | Sean Williams | Silence and Phenomenology: The Movement Between Nature and Language in Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Schelling (Advisor: Peter Warnek) | Instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School |
| 2010 | Mathew Alan Foust | Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life (Advisor: Scott L. Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, |
| 2010 | Carolyn Sue Culbertson | The Claim of Language: A Phenomenological Approach (Advisors: John Lysaker and Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University (starting summer 2013) Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine at Farmington (current) Visiting Assistant Professor, Elon University (initial) |
| 2009 | Robin Lynn Zebrowski | We Are Plastic: Human Variability and the Myth of the Standard Body (Advisor: Mark Johnson) | Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Beloit College |
| 2009 | Jazmine Lily Gabriel | The Problem of Life: From Mechanism to Surprise (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy, Siena College (current) Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Willamette University (initial) |
| 2008 | Melissa Marie Shew | The Phenomenon of Chance in Ancient Greek Thought (Advisor: Peter Warnek) | Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University |
| 2008 | Rochelle Marie Green | The Self Overcoming: Hope, Relationality, and Politics (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas (current) Visiting Instructor of Philosophy and Religion, Goucher College (initial) |
| 2008 | Alain Henry Beauclair | John Dewey's Ethics of Imagination (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
Full-time Philosophy Faculty, MacEwan University (current) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Central Washington University (initial) |
| 2008 | Adam Charles Arola | The Movement of Philosophy: Freedom as Ecstatic Thinking in Schelling and Heidegger (Advisor: Peter Warnek) |
Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Department, |
| 2007 | Amy Eloise Story | Ethics and the Boundaries of Self: A Study of Beauvoir and Levinas and a Reading of Play It As It Lays and Beloved (Advisor: Bonnie Mann) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program, Baldwin Wallace University |
| 2007 | John William Kaiser Ortiz | Paz's Theory of Self (Advisor: Scott Pratt) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Millersville University, Pennsylvania (current) 2-year teaching position in the Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University in Ohio (initial) |
| 2007 | John Jacob Kaag | Thinking Through the Imagination: The Centrality of Aesthetic Creativity in Human Cognition (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| 2007 | Matthew Russell Crom | Religious Pluralism: Josiah Royce's Communities of Interpretation (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Revenue Agent, Compliance Division, Washington State Department of Revenue |
| 2007 | Celia Tagamolila Bardwell-Jones | Travel, Home and the Space-Between: A Feminist Pragmatist Approach to Transnational Identities (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii (current) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Towson University (initial) |
| 2006 | Jonathan Brent Crouch | Josiah Royce's Science of Order (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Coach for Women's Volleyball, St. Mary's College of California |
| 2006 | Lisa Michelle Yount | Remembrance, Representation, and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Memorial Curation (Advisor: Naomi Zack) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Critical Thinking, Savannah State University |
| 2006 | Jennifer Kristin McWeeny | Knowing Emotions: Emotional Intentionality and Epistemological Sense (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic University (current) Associate Professor in Philosophy, John Carroll University (initial) |
| 2006 | Chaone L. Mallory | Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Representation, and the Politics of Subjectivity (Advisor: John Lysaker) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University |
| 2006 | Jena Grace Jolissaint | Receiving Socrates' Banquet: Plato, Schelling and Irigaray on Nature and Sexual Difference (Advisor: Peter Warnek) |
Law student, Georgia State University College of Law |
| 2006 | Kimberly K. Garchar | A Dying Community: A Roycean Critique of the Medical Community at the End of Life (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University, Stark Campus |
| 2006 | John Salvatore Capaccio | Blood and Soil: An Examination of the Authority of Tradition (Advisor: John Lysaker) | Instructor of Philosophy, Chemeketa Community College |
| 2005 | Dana Michelle Berthold | A Genealogy of Purity (Advisor: John Lysaker) | Regional Representative, Pacific Crest Trail Association |
| 2004 | Benjamin Joseph Wooster | Solid Proof and Vulgar Bias: Hume's Theory of Causation (Advisor: Will Davie) | Instructor of Philosophy, Rockingham Community College |
| 2004 | Patricia Anne Halliday | Conceptions of Agency and Responsibility in the Language(s) of Incest (Advisors: Nancy Tuana and Scott Pratt) |
private business |
| 2004 | David Todd Butler-Ritchie | Shifting Foundations and Historical Contingencies: A Critique of Modern Constitutionalism (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Associate Professor of Law, Mercer University |
| 2004 | Lorraine Florence Brundige | tansi taisinisitohtamahk kitaskino: Cree Philosophy awa kayaskiyacimowin (Advisor: Scott Pratt) |
Assistant Professor of Native Studies, Brandon University |
| 2003 | Alexandra Lynn Stotts | Giving Birth to Feminist Pragmatism Inquiry: A Deweyan Alternative to Quinean Empiricism (Advisors: Scott Pratt and Nancy Tuana) |
private business |
| 2003 | Juan Ferret | Dynamic Pluralism: A Pluralist Framework for Science (Advisors: Scott Pratt and Nancy Tuana) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2003 | Steven Ravett Brown | Structural Phenomenology: An Empirically-Based Model of Consciousness (Advisor: Mark Johnson) | Analyst/Programmer and Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester |
| 2002 | Hollis Garrett Wright | Means, Ends and Medical Care (Advisor: Mark Johnson) | private business |
| 2002 | John Edward Martin Shuford | The "Gift" of Affirmative Action: Racial Redress Toward Racial Healing (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Director, Institute for Hate Studies, Gonzaga University |
| 2002 | Vincent Michel Mulier | Pragmatism in the Columbia Basin : Laws, Values, and the Emergence of a Regional River Ethic (Advisor: Scott Pratt) | Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University, and Lane County Public Defense Attorney |
| 2002 | Terrance Anthony MacMullan | Dewey and DuBois: The Meaning of Race and Whiteness (Advisor: Scott Pratt) | Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Washington University |
| 2002 | Kenneth Alan Kirby | Fractured Vision: Myth and Discernment in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy (Advisor: Will Davie) | Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Western Oregon University |
| 2002 | Peter W. Esser | John Dewey's Art as Experience: A Treatise On the Art of Living (Advisor: Scott Pratt) | retired |
| 2002 | Timothy Lee Adamson | Measuring Flesh: A Phenomenology of Bodily Perception (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Iowa Wesleyan College |
| 2001 | Quang Phu Van | Roaming the World and Wandering at Ease: Nguyen Cong Tru's Poetic Vision of Becoming a Fully Developed Human Being (Advisor: Don Levi) | Lecturer in Philosophy, Yale University |
| 2001 | Jeffrey James Stolle | The Paradox of Ethical Immediacy: Levinas and Kant (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Instructor of Leadership and Communication, |
| 2001 | Stephen Jay Stern | Ethics After the Holocaust: The Time Before Genocide (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Assistant Professor of Religion, Gettysburg College |
| 2001 | Maurice Francois Hamington | Embodied Care (Advisor: Nancy Tuana) | Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy, Metropolitan State College of Denver |
| 2001 | Steven Barry Brence | Multiculturalism: The Refusal and Reconstruction of Recognition (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 2000 | Cynthia Diane Coe | The Time of Subjectivity: Reconceiving History as Ethics in Foucault and Levinas (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Associate Professor and Director of Women Studies, Central Washington University |
| 2000 | Donald J. Morse | Dewey's Ethics: Moral Value in the Natural World (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1999 | Jada Z. Prane | Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociated Identity Disorder: the Client as Actor Model (Advisor: Don Levi) |
Philosophical Marriage and Family Counselor, Springfield, Oregon |
| 1998 | Christopher J. Preston | Epistemology and Environment: the Greening of Belief (Advisor: Nancy Tuana) |
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana |
| 1998 | Timothy Charles Rohrer | When Metaphors Bewitch, Analogies Illustrate, and Logic Fails: Controversies Over the Use of Metaphoric Reasoning in Philosophy and Science (Advisor: Mark Johnson) |
Fulbright Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 1998 | Kenneth Pendleton | Unreasonable Expectations: a Phenomenological Defense of Taking a Group-rights Based Perspective Towards the Adjudication of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Adjunct Instructor, UO Law School |
| 1997 | Ajit K. Maan | Unbinding the Structures of Narrative Agency: Internarrative Subjectivity and the Classical Aesthetic Foundation of Ricoeurean Identity (Advisors: Mark Johnson and Nancy Tuana) |
author |
| 1996 | John William Schroeder | Nagarjuna's Unsurpassed Medicine: Emptiness and the Doctrine of Upaya (Advisor: Don Levi) | Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| 1996 | Joan Woolfrey | Refusing Evil: the Place of Acuity in Morality (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Associate Professor and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, West Chester University |
| 1996 | Josephine Trigilio | Death of the Armchair Activist: Pragmatic Understanding of Feminist Knowledge (Advisor: Nancy Tuana) | Senior Lecturer of Women's and Gender Studies and Philosophy; Director of the Graduate Program in Gender and Cultural Studies, Simmons College |
| 1995 | Jamie P. Ross | Engendered Pragmatism (Advisor: John Stuhr) | Assistant Professor of University Studies, Portland State University |
| 1995 | Thomas Charles Dewberry | Can We Diagnose the Health of Ecosystems? (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Instructor, Gutenberg College |
| 1995 | Michael Charles Warwick | The Metaphysics and Phenomenology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: an Interpretive Investigation into the Nature and Function of Simple Objects in Wittgenstein's Early Theory of Meaning (Advisor: William Davie) | Instructor of Philosophy, Portland Community College |
| 1994 | Jennifer Abbé Miller | The Truth about Fiction: Some Reflections on Philosophy and Literature (Advisor: Henry Alexander) | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Millersville University |
| 1993 | Michael Wayne Bollenbaugh | Faith and Fideism (Advisor: Robert Herbert) | Professor of Philosophy and Biblical Studies, Northwest Christian University |
| 1993 | Robert Jarvis Gould | Hera, Not Hero: Centering the Moral Life on Moral Commitment, Rather Than Heroic Courage (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) |
Co-founder and Chair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Portland State University |
| 1993 | Douglas Richard Groothuis | To Prove or Not to Prove: Pascal on Natural Theology (Advisor: Robert Herbert) | Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary |
| 1993 | Leilani Anne Roberts | The Ontology of Privacy (Advisor: Cheyney Ryan) | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| Year | Masters Recipient | Thesis Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Patrick John Taylor | A Pragmatic Realism: Events, Powers, and Relations in the Metaphysics of Objective Relativism | Electronic Resources Technician for the UO Knight Library |
| 2012 | Matthew Jacobs | Communal Agency in Josiah Royce | PhD program in Philosophy at Penn State |
| 2012 | Mindy Kay Young-Lawson | Research Associate for a law firm that handles cases in environmental contamination and occupational disease | |
| 2012 | Aaron Pratt | Sin and Liberation in Community: A Philosophical Analysis of Liberation Theology and the Ideas of Josiah Royce | PhD program in Philosophy at Emory |
| 2011 | Vernon Carter | Towards Inquiry Based Education | |
| 2011 | Caitlin S Howlett | Doctoral Program in Philosophy of Education, University of Indiana | |
| 2011 | Christian Matheis | MA not awarded--student received funded fellowship before completing degree | Doctoral Program, Virginia Tech Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) |
| 2010 | Miles Martin Hentrup | Toward A Critique of Crisis Consciousness | Doctoral Program, Stony Brook University |
| 2010 | Derek Harley Moyer | The Priority of the Human in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas | Adjunct Faculty, Humanities Department, Warner Pacific College |
| 2010 | Justin Neville Kaushall | Kant on the Imagination and Schematization in the Critique of Pure Reason and The Critique of Judgment | |
| 2010 | Andrew James Thomson | Educating for the Future: A Freirean Response to Accountability in Higher Education | |
| 2009 | Jessica Sims | Questioning Technology: Heidegger and the History of Truth | Doctoral Program, Stony Brook University |
| 2008 | Lori Jean Brown | Enslaved to the Species: The Confluence of Animality, Immanence, and the Female Body in Simone De Beavoir's The Second Sex | |
| 2008 | Beckey Diane Sukovaty | A Feminist Philosophical Critique of Domestic Mediation (ADR) Practices in the United States: Realizing Mary Parker Follett's Theory of Empowerment |
Adjunct Faculty, Conflict Resolution, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Portland State University |
| 2007 | Aaron Morgan Bell | Reclaiming Ethical Responsibility: An Urgent Case for Authentic, Psychological Work | |
| 2007 | Jeremy Blair Bensman | Enlightenment and Catastrophe: Prophetic Connections in the Work of Michel Foucault | |
| 2007 | Christopher J. Emmick | Educational Praxis In Plato and Aristotle | |
| 2007 | Spencer Gwartney-Gibbs | Revisiting Mathematics Without Foundations: Putnam's Mathematical Realism and the Quine/Putnam Indispensability Argument | Doctoral Program, Georgetown Law School |
| 2007 | Nicholas Carroll Reynolds | Intersubjectivity in the Work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Buber | Doctoral Program, University of Oregon, German and Scandinavian |
| 2006 | Ashwini Sangeeta Prasad | Gandhi: Hinduism, Non-Violence, and His Ethical Perspectives | Management Analyst, Oregon Health and Science University |
| 2005 | Jeffrey Alan Kaplan | Toward an Ethos of the Environment: Communal Flourishing in Aristotle, Hinduism, Emerson, and Deep Ecology | U.S. Probation Officer, El Paso, Texas |
| 2004 | Christopher B Ruth | Heidegger and the Question of Human Freedom | Doctoral Program, Villanova |