Placement Record

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, PD=postdoc).

2011

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Ryan Hay (metaethics)	Occidental College (FT)	University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (FT)
Lewis Powell (early modern)	Wayne State University (TT)	University of Buffalo, SUNY (TT)
Sam Shpall (practical reason)	USC (PD)	USC (PD)
Robert Shanklin (moral semantics)	Santa Clara University (FT)	Santa Clara University (FT)
Jonathan Weil (metaphysics)	Stanford University High School (FT)	Stanford University High School (FT)
Placement Rate: 83%

 

2010

Placement Rate: 0%, 2 awarded

 

2009

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Brian Talbot (epistemology)	University of Colorado, Boulder (FT)	University of Colorado, Boulder (FT)
Shlomo Sher (ethics)	USC Levan Institute of Humanities and Ethics (Associate) & CSU, Fullerton (FT)	CSU, Fullerton
Sherri Zhu (Free Will)	Antelope Valley College	Antelope Valley College
Placement Rate: 60%

 

2008

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Daniel Considine (early modern)	Metropolitan State College of Denver (FT)	Metropolitan State College of Denver (FT)
Maryam Qudrat (political phil)	CSU-Long Beach (FT), UC-Irvine Center for Ethics & Morality (Fellow)	CSU-Long Beach (FT)
Placement Rate: 50%

 

2007

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Amanda Printz (early modern)	St. John's College (TT)	University of West Georgia (Part-Time)
Albert Chan (applied ethics)	St. Ambrose University (TT)	St. Ambrose University (TT)
Brian Glenney (cog. sci., early modern)	Gordon College (TT)	Gordon College (TT)
Esther Kroeker (early modern)	Institute of Philosophy, Center for Logic & Analytic Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (PD)	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Netherlands)
Placement Rate: 50%

 

2006

Placement Rate: 0%, 1 awarded

 

2005

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Walter Hopp (epistemology, phenomenology)	Boston University (TT)	Boston University (T)
Placement Rate: 100%

 

2004

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Victoria Rogers (philosophy of science, physics)	Indiana University - Purdue University (FT)	Indiana University - Purdue University and University of Nevada, Reno
Neil McArthur (early modern)	University of Manitoba (TT)	University of Manitoba (T)
Placement Rate: 100%

 

2003

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Steve Porter	Biola University (TT)	Biola University (T)
Amy Peikoff (political philosophy, philosophy of law)	UNC-Chapel Hill (FT), UT-Austin, U.S. Airforce (TT)	Independent Writer
Daniel Yim	Biola University (FT)	Bethel University (TT)
Placement Rate: 60%

 

2002

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Aaron Preston	Malone College (TT)	Valparaiso University (T)
Placement Rate: 50%

 

2001

No PhDs Awarded

 

2000

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Greggory Ten-Elshof	Biola University (TT)	Biola University (T)
Placement Rate: 100%

 

1999

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Simon Cushing (political philosophy)	U. of Michigan - Flint (TT)	U. of Michigan - Flint (T)
Placement Rate: 100%

 

1998

Name & Specialty	Placement	Current
Donald Wilson (ethics)	Kansas State (TT)	Kansas State (T)
James Stramel	Santa Monica College (TT)	Santa Monica College (T)
Placement Rate: 100%