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.
2011-2012 Placement Committee
Naomi Zack, Chair
Rocío Zambrana, Director of Graduate Travel Awards
Peter Warnek (Winter & Spring 2012)
Lucy Schultz, Graduate Rep
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 last ten years of placement success is included at the bottom of this page.
- Travel Award Policy
- Placement Guide
- Placement Workshops
- Mock Interviews and Job Talks
- Preparing Teaching Portfolios
- Philosophy Ph.D. Placement Over the Last Twenty Years
Travel Award Policy and Procedures:
The department offers graduate students travel awards for professional conferences and job interviews at the APA (American Philosophical Association Conference). During 2011-2012, the department will offer a total of 12 Travel Awards (awards are reimbursements).
Policy:
Each PhD student is eligible for two reimbursements for expenses up to $400 each for conference travel, and one reimbursement of up to $400 for travel to the APA for an interview. Each MA student is eligible for one reimbursement for expenses up to $400 for conference travel.
Eligible students will be reimbursed for their travel as applications are submitted until May 15.
Students who have already received funding for two conferences and one job interview should nonetheless apply for funds, as their applications will be considered if there are funds remaining. Please submit any additional applications by May15. If you apply for an additional award before May 15, your application will be held until the deadline.
Students that are not invited to interview at the APA, but still decide to go to the APA, will be reimbursed for their travel, but it will use up their job interview award. If they cancel their tickets and don’t go to the APA, they must let the Director of Travel Awards know so that the funds are available for others.
Procedures:
1. To apply for a travel award, please submit the following to the Director of Travel Awards as soon as you recieve notice of acceptance or invitation to interview:
~ Travel Award Application Form
~ Confirmation of conference acceptance or invitation to interview at the APA.
The Director of Travel Awards will confirm your eligibility and availability of funds via email.
2. Reimbursements will be paid upon submission of receipts up to $400. Please submit receipts as soon as you return from your travel. Note the following receipt requirements:
~ Conference schedule or email confirming interview scheduling.
The conference schedule listing dates and places, hotel amounts, registration fees, and meals is required.
If you don't have one, check the web.
~ Travel Itinerary
Travel reimbursement information must contain:
• Date and time of departure and place
• Date and time of return and place
A copy of the airline itinerary will suffice.
Note that the airline itinerary must be purchased by the person requesting reimbursement and show payment received.
Also note that the airfares must be from Eugene, not Portland. If you use ground transportation to go to Portland, you must include a copy of a comparison fair to show that your flight from Portland with ground transport cost less than a flight from Eugene.
Separate quotes are required for any ticket that includes personal travel.
When combining personal travel with travel to be reimbursed, payment will be based on the least expensive and reasonable means of transportation to the business location.
Meal and lodging per diem is limited to the business portion of the trip. Generally, the dates of the conference or meeting and one travel day before and after are allowable for reimbursement. Any additional days paid by the UO must be documented with a business purpose.
~ Per Diem and Lodging
Meals are paid at a flat per diem rate, you do not need receipts for meals. Lodging receipts must be in the traveler’s name, and show payment received.
Note that you cannot be reimbursed for meals listed on the conference schedule, or conference t-shirt, included on registration forms.
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.
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 | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Sarah LaChance Adams | The Ethics of Ambivalence: Maternity, Intersubjectivity and Ethics in Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Superior |
| 2011 | Amrita Banerjee | Re-conceiving “Borders”: A Feminist Pragmatic Phenomenology for Postcolonial Feminist Ethics and Politics | Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 2011 | Elena Cuffari | Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition | 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 | Grant Writer, STAND! for Families Free of Violence |
| 2011 | Jason Jordan | Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity | Visiting Philosophy Instructor, Oregon State University |
| 2011 | Thomas Nail | Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo | three-year post-doctoral lectureship in continental philosophy at the University of Denver |
| 2011 | Paul Qualtere-Burcher | Rethinking the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Physician's Philosophical Perspective | 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 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York |
| 2010 | Sean Williams | Silence and Phenomenology: The Movement Between Nature and Language in Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Schelling | Instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School |
| 2010 | Mathew Alan Foust | Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina |
| 2010 | Carolyn Sue Culbertson | The Claim of Language: A Phenomenological Approach | Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine at Farmington |
| 2009 | Robin Lynn Zebrowski | We Are Plastic: Human Variability and the Myth of the Standard Body | Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Beloit College |
| 2009 | Jazmine Lily Gabriel | The Problem of Life: From Mechanism to Surprise | Adjunct Faculty, State University of New York at New Paltz |
| 2008 | Melissa Marie Shew | The Phenomenon of Chance in Ancient Greek Thought | Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University |
| 2008 | Rochelle Marie Green | The Self Overcoming: Hope, Relationality, and Politics | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas |
| 2008 | Alain Henry Beauclair | John Dewey's Ethics of Imagination | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Central Washington University |
| 2008 | Adam Charles Arola | The Movement of Philosophy: Freedom as Ecstatic Thinking in Schelling and Heidegger | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University |
| 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 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Baldwin-Wallace College |
| 2007 | John William Kaiser Ortiz | Paz's Theory of Self | Instructor of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University |
| 2007 | John Jacob Kaag | Thinking Through the Imagination: The Centrality of Aesthetic Creativity in Human Cognition | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| 2007 | Jonathan Brent Crouch | Josiah Royce's Science of Order | Assistant Coach for Women's Volleyball, St. Mary's College of California |
| 2007 | Matthew Russell Crom | Religious Pluralism: Josiah Royce's Communities of Interpretation | 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 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Towson University |
| 2006 | Lisa Michelle Yount | Remembrance, Representation, and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Memorial Curation | Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Critical Thinking, Savannah State University |
| 2006 | Jennifer Kristin McWeeny | Knowing Emotions: Emotional Intentionality and Epistemological Sense | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University |
| 2006 | Chaone L. Mallory | Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Representation, and the Politics of Subjectivity | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University |
| 2006 | Jena Grace Jolissaint | Receiving Socrates' Banquet: Plato, Schelling and Irigaray on Nature and Sexual Difference | 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 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University, Stark Campus |
| 2006 | John Salvatore Capaccio | Blood and Soil: An Examination of the Authority of Tradition | Instructor of Philosophy, Chemeketa Community College |
| 2005 | Dana Michelle Berthold | A Genealogy of Purity | Regional Representative, Pacific Crest Trail Association |
| 2004 | Benjamin Joseph Wooster | Solid Proof and Vulgar Bias: Hume's Theory of Causation | Instructor of Philosophy, Rockingham Community College |
| 2004 | Patricia Anne Halliday | Conceptions of Agency and Responsibility in the Language(s) of Incest | private business |
| 2004 | David Todd Butler-Ritchie | Shifting Foundations and Historical Contingencies: A Critique of Modern Constitutionalism | Associate Professor of Law, Mercer University |
| 2004 | Lorraine Florence Brundige | tansi taisinisitohtamahk kitaskino: Cree Philosophy awa kayaskiyacimowin | Assistant Professor of Native Studies, Brandon University |
| 2003 | Alexandra Lynn Stotts | Giving Birth to Feminist Pragmatism Inquiry: A Deweyan Alternative to Quinean Empiricism | private business |
| 2003 | Juan Ferret | Dynamic Pluralism: A Pluralist Framework for Science | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2003 | Steven Ravett Brown | Structural Phenomenology: An Empirically-Based Model of Consciousness | Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester |
| 2002 | Hollis Garrett Wright | Means, Ends and Medical Care | private business |
| 2002 | John Edward Martin Shuford | The "Gift" of Affirmative Action: Racial Redress Toward Racial Healing | Instructor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University |
| 2002 | Vincent Michel Mulier | Pragmatism in the Columbia Basin : Laws, Values, and the Emergence of a Regional River Ethic | Attorney, Law Office of Vincent Mulier |
| 2002 | Terrance Anthony MacMullan | Dewey and DuBois: The Meaning of Race and Whiteness | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Washington University |
| 2002 | Kenneth Alan Kirby | Fractured Vision: Myth and Discernment in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Western Oregon University |
| 2002 | Peter W. Esser | John Dewey's Art as Experience: A Treatise On the Art of Living | retired |
| 2002 | Timothy Lee Adamson | Measuring Flesh: A Phenomenology of Bodily Perception | Associate Professor of Philosophy, 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 | Lecturer in Philosophy, Yale University |
| 2001 | Jeffrey James Stolle | The Paradox of Ethical Immediacy: Levinas and Kant |
Instructor of Leadership and Communication, |
| 2001 | Stephen Jay Stern | Ethics After the Holocaust: The Time Before Genocide | Assistant Professor of Religion, Gettysburg College |
| 2001 | Maurice Francois Hamington | Embodied Care | Associate Professor of Women's Studies & Philosophy, Metropolitan State College of Denver |
| 2001 | Steven Barry Brence | Multiculturalism: The Refusal and Reconstruction of Recognition | Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 2000 | Cynthia Diane Coe | The Time of Subjectivity: Reconceiving History as Ethics in Foucault and Levinas | Associate Professor & Director of Women Studies, Central Washington University |
| 2000 | Donald J. Morse | Dewey's Ethics: Moral Value in the Natural World | Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1999 | Jada Z. Prane | Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociated Identity Disorder: the Client as Actor Model | Philosophical Marriage & Family Counselor, Springfield, Oregon |
| 1998 | Christopher J. Preston | Epistemology and Environment: the Greening of Belief | 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 | 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 | Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 1997 | Ajit K. Maan | Unbinding the Structures of Narrative Agency: Internarrative Subjectivity and the Classical Aesthetic Foundation of Ricoeurean Identity | author |
| 1996 | John William Schroeder | Nagarjuna's Unsurpassed Medicine: Emptiness and the Doctrine of Upaya | Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| 1996 | Joan Woolfrey | Refusing Evil: the Place of Acuity in Morality | Associate Professor and Director of Peace & Conflict Studies, West Chester University |
| 1996 | Josephine Trigilio | Death of the Armchair Activist: Pragmatic Understanding of Feminist Knowledge | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Simmons College |
| 1995 | Jamie P. Ross | Engendered Pragmatism | Assistant Professor of University Studies, Portland State University |
| 1995 | Thomas Charles Dewberry | Can We Diagnose the Health of Ecosystems? | 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 | Instructor of Philosophy, Portland Community College |
| 1994 | Jennifer Abbé Miller | The Truth about Fiction: Some Reflections on Philosophy and Literature | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Millersville University |
| 1994 | Michael Wayne Bollenbaugh | Faith and Fideism | 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 | 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 | Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary |
| 1993 | Leilani Anne Roberts | The Ontology of Privacy | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University |
| 1992 | John Alan Crabtree | Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology: Clarification and Critique | Director of McKenzie Study Center, Gutenberg College |
| 1991 | Philip Dean Smith | Learning to Love: Philosophy and Moral Progress | Professor of Philosophy and Department Head, George Fox University |
| Year | Masters Recipient | Thesis Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Vernon Carter | Towards Inquiry Based Education | |
| 2011 | Caitlin S Howlett | ||
| 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 & 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 & Scandinavian |
| 2006 | Ashwini Sangeeta Prasad | Gandhi: Hinduism, Non-Violence, and His Ethical Perspectives | Management Analyst, Oregon Health & 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 |