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Placement for PhDs Dec. 2002- Jan. 2007

Fall 2002

Hulya Guney-Durudogan

Dissertation: Truth, Assumption and the Subject

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, KOC University , Istanbul, Turkey

Spring 2003

Robert Johnson

Dissertation: Bodies of Knowledge: Perception in Spinoza and Whitehead

Co-Directors: Wilhelm Wurzer and Stephen Ross

Current Position: Fine Art Handling/ Freelance Art Ecology and Philosophy, Pittsburgh

James Snyder

Dissertation: Time and Eternity in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

Director: Fred Evans

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Mercyhurst College

Fall 2003

Andre Archie

Dissertation: Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University

Paul Kinsman

Dissertation: Figuring Zarathustra

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Spring 2004

Agnieszka Patkowkska

Dissertation: The Language Economy: Literature, Violence, Ethics in Sartre, Blanchot and Said

Director: Eleanore Holveck

Fall 2004

Mary Ann Fenicato

Dissertation: Thinking Outside Pandora's Box: Now That the Idea of God Has Been Declared Dead, Has All Hope Been Lost for Philosophy and Humankind?

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Rev. Joseph Penlong Nietlong

Dissertation: Feuerbach in Context: A Philosophical Reassessment

Director: Tom Rockmore

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Mary of the Lake

J. Baynard Woods

Dissertation: Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Chair of History and Politics, Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy

Diane Bowser

Dissertation: Being-in-the-Web: A Philosophical Investigation of Digital Existence in the Virtual Age

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Current Position: Instructor, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2005

Joseph Campisi

Dissertation: Morals of Language: Habermas, Levinas and Discourse Ethics

Director: Fred Evans

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marist College

Daniel Collins-Cavanaugh

Dissertation: Bergson's Aristotelian Theory of Duration & The History of Temporality

Director: Tom Rockmore

Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Prince George 's Community College

Rev. Felix Charles Owino

Dissertation: Play and Language in Gadamer: An Ontological Interpretation of Nuptial Union

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Current Position: Chaplain and Tutor, Magdalen College

Sr. Theresa Wambui

Dissertation: Recasting Hegel's Ethical Theory

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Mark Brouwer

Dissertation: The Limits of Philosophy: Plato's Sophist and Statesman

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Lilly Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wabash College

Fall 2005

George Yancy

Dissertation: Whiteness and Return of the “Black Body”

Director: Fred Evans

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University

Sister Judith K. Parsons, IHM

Dissertation: Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility

Director: Lanei Rodemeyer

Current Position: Assistant Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Immaculata University

Matthew C. Eshleman


Dissertation: Power, Subjectivity, and Freedom in the French Context:
Sartre and Foucault on a ‘Post-Modern' Problem of Agency

Director: Tom Rockmore

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

Rev. Pachomius Okogie

Dissertation: An Adequate Account of the Sensible World: Aristotle and Merleau-Ponty, A Comparative Study

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Current Position: Priest in Residence at St. Maurice Parish, Forest Hills , PA

Spring 2006

Faith Bjalobok

Dissertation: Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the
Categorical Imperative

Director: Fred Evans

Current Position: Part-time Instructor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; West Virginia University ; Mercy Hospital , Pittsburgh , PA

Antonis Coumoundorous

Dissertation: Plato's View of Tyranny

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Warren Wilson College

Rev. Thomas Akpen

Dissertation: Authentic Da-sein as Pathway to Heideggarianism as a Political Philosophy—A Political Vibration of Being and Time

Director: Wilhelm Wurzer

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Spiritan School of Philosophy, Isienu, Nsukka, Nigeria

Fall 2006

Matthew Morgan

Dissertation: Attending Intending: Meaning and Making Sense in Husserl and Wittgenstein

Director: Lanei Rodemeyer

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Thiel College

Rev. Casimir L. Nyaki

Dissertation: Julius K. Nyerere: Radical Equality and Socialism (Ujama)

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University

Spring 2007

Wade Roberts

Dissertation: Re-Reading the Imagery of the Body Politic

Director: Diane Perpich

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Juniata College

Fall 2007

Patrick Macfarlane

Dissertation: A Philosophical Commentary on Aristotle's De Spiritu

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Providence College

Spring 2008

Clifford Lee

Dissertation: Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Communication of Possibility

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Troy University

Emily Katz

Dissertation: A Question of Numbers: Aristotle's Critique of Platonic Mathematical Objects, Form-Numbers, and First Principles in Metaphysics M-N."

Director: Ron Polansky

Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, University of Colorado - Boulder

   
 
 
 
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