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Placement

The School's recent placement record is shown below, with Ph.D. recipients grouped by the year their degrees were awarded. Only those with current academic positions are listed, with the percentage of each graduating class. Two thirds of Ph.D.s awarded since 1998 are currently in full-time academic employment. (T=tenured, TT=tenure-track, FT=fixed-term).

2011 (83%)

Ryan Hay (metaethics)

Lewis Powell (early modern)

Sam Shpall (practical reason)

Robert Shanklin (moral semantics)

Jonathan Weil (metaphysics)

Occidental College (FT)

Wayne State University (TT)

USC (Postdoc)

Santa Clara University (FT)

Stanford University High School (FT)

2010 (0%, 2 awarded)

 

 

2009 (60%)

Brian Talbot (epistemology)

Shlomo Sher (ethics)


Sherri Zhu (Free Will)

University of Colorado, Boulder (FT)

USC Levan Institute of Humanities and Ethics (Associate) & CSU Fullerton (FT)

Antelope Valley College (T)

2008 (50%)

Daniel Considine (early modern)  

Metropolitan State College of Denver(FT)

Maryam Qudrat (political phil.)

CSU-Long Beach (FT)
UC-Irvine Center for Ethics & Morality (Fellow)

2007 (100%)

Amanda Printz (early modern)

Albert Chan (applied ethics)

St. John's College (TT)

St. Ambrose University (TT)

Brian Glenney (cog. sci., early modern)

Esther Kroeker (early modern)

Gordon College (TT)

Institute of Philosophy, Center for Logic & Analytic Philosophy,
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (Postdoc)

2006 (0%, 1 awarded)

 

 

2005   (100%)

Walter Hopp (epist., phenom.)    Boston University (T)

2004   (100%)

Victoria Rogers (phil. science, physics)

Indiana University Purdue (FT)
Neil McArthur (early modern) University of Manitoba (TT)

2003   (60%)

Steve Porter
 Biola University (T)
Amy Peikoff (political phil., phil. law) U.S. Airforce (T)
(prev. FT at UNC-Chapel Hill, UT-Austin)
Daniel Yim

 Bethel University (TT)

(prev. FT at Biola)

2002   (50%)

Aaron Preston Valparaiso University (T)

2001   (no PhDs awarded)

2000   (100%)

Greggory Ten-Elshof Biola University (T)

1999   (100%)

Simon Cushing (political phil.) U. of Michigan - Flint (T)

1998   (100%)

Donald Wilson (ethics)

 Kansas State (T)
James Stramel Santa Monica College (T)