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Placement
& Alumni
Placement
DePaul's Ph.D. program in
philosophy has an exceptional placement record. During the last decade we
have placed students in such institutions as St.
Edwards University,
University of Scranton, Chicago
State University,
Miami University of Ohio, Earlham College, Grinnell
College, the
Rhetoric Program at Berkeley, Xavier University
in New Orleans, The American University in Cairo, Lewis University, Northern
Illinois University,
Columbia College,
and Villanova
University.
Current
Appointments
This section lists current appointments of
doctoral students who are ABD.
Heather Ross, Point Loma
Nazarene University
(tenure-track).
Recent Alumni
This section lists
recent Ph.D. alumni, the title of their dissertation, and their place of
current academic appointment, if known.
2007-08
Julia Davis, “The Poet as Destiny: The
Inauguration of Heidegger’s Dialogue with Hölderlin.” Whitman College, Walla
Walla, Washington.
Wesley Swedlow, “Against the Personification of
Democracy: Of the Causes, Generation, and Dissolution of the Person with
Political Formations.”
Samuel Talcott, “Anatomical Operations: The
Modern Invention of the Living as Pathological, Or Contributions to a
Genealogy of Michel Foucault’s Work.”
Lisa Tama Weisman, “From Totalitarianism to the
Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx on History, Politics, and Philosophy.”
Quincy University, Illinois.
Robertus Wijanarko, “Exploring Indonesian
Humanism: Revisiting Indonesian Nationalism, Humanism, and National
Culture.” Institute for Philosophy and Theology, Malang, Indonesia.
2006-07
Pleshette DeArmitt, “Echoes of Narcissus:
Aporias of Self-Relation in the Works of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.” University of Memphis, Tennessee.
Peter Gratton, “Freedom, Equality, but not
Fraternity: Toward a Shared Sovereignty.” University of San Diego.
Robert Tapia, “Cogito qui vivo: A Vitalistic
Approach to the Problem of Man’s Being.”
Robert Valgenti, “Critique and the Inheritance
of Metaphysics: Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Kant.” Lebanon Valley
University, Annville, Pennsylvania.
Sokthan Yeng, “Establishing Community Fitness through Michel
Foucault’s Mechanisms of Power.” DePaul University.
2005-06
Brett Buchanan, “Onto-Ethologies: Relations
Between Uexküll,
Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze.” Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada.
William
Behun, “The Historical Pivot: Philosophy of History in Hegel, Schelling,
and Hölderlin.”
The Pennsylvania
State University.
Gerard Kuperus, “Hegel’s Perspectivism.” University of San
Francisco.
Robin James, “The Conjectural Body: Gender,
Race, and the Philosophy of Music.” University of North
Carolina, Charlotte.
Elizabeth Sikes, “Intellectual Intuition after
Kant: Katharsis and the Revolution of the Tragic in Friedrich Hölderlin.”
Seattle University,
Washington.
2004-05
Kenneth Burak, “Logic and Resistance: On
Retroactive Constitution and Misrecognition in Hegel’s Science of Logic.” Northampton Community College, Pennsylvania.
2003-04
Peter Wake, “Tragedy, Speculation, and Ethicality in
German Idealism.” St. Edwards
University, Texas.
2002-03
Christina M.
Gschwandtner, "Sparks of Meaning at the Points of Friction: At the
Boundary Between Philosophy and Theology in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion."
University of Scranton,
Pennsylvania.
Christina Smerick,
“Between the Garden and the Gathering: The Intertwining of Philosophy with
Theology in Walter Benjamin.” Greenville
College, Illinois.
Mark Walter,
“Indications: Heidegger and Levinas on Language and Ethos after Husserl.” Aurora College,
Illinois.
Philip Cronce, “Max
Scheler’s Typology of the Model Person: A Critique of Societal Role
Models.” Chicago State University,
Chicago.
2001-02
Ellen Cox, "The Promise of Reading:
Ethics, Narrativity, and the Law." Transylvania University, Kentucky.
Susanne Johansen-Trent,
"Beyond Boundaries of Belonging: Transgressions of an Emigrant."
Kas Saghafi,
"Apparitions—Of the Other in Contemporary French Philosophy." University of Memphis.
Daniel Selcer, "Method
and Repetition in Leibniz and Hegel." Duquesne University, Pennsylvania.
2000-01
Keith Peterson, "Problem and Construction: Kant, Schelling, Deleuze." St.
Michael’s College &
Champlain College.
Robert Vallier,
"Institution: Of Nature, Life, and Meaning in Merleau-Ponty and
Schelling." George
Washington University.
DePaul University, Honors Program.
1999-2000
Matthew Pacholec, "The Critical Aesthetics of Kant and Lyotard:
Aesthetic Temporality, Sublime Subjectivity, and the Immaterial." Grinnell College, Iowa.
Susanna Pagliaro,
"Sensible Being: Sexual Difference, Air, and Other Universal Matters
in the Thought of Luce Irigaray." Office of Liberal Arts &
Sciences, DePaul
University.
David Preiman,
"Care for the Whole: Some Scattered Remarks on the Introduction to Being
and Time and Beyond."
Daniel Price,
"Difficult Abandon: The Shape of Singularity." University of Houston Honors College, Texas.
Madeleine Victoria, "A
Phenomenological Study of Dance: Dancing Bodies, A Celebration of
Life!"
1998-1999
Kelly Coble, "Intelligible Character and Deed in Kant, Schelling and
Musil." The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Currently Baldwin Wallace College,
Ohio.
Thomas Brugger,
"Spinoza and Hegel on Ethical Individuals."
Karen Feldman,
"Rhetoric and Performativity." Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.
Ferit Guven, "The
Death of Philosophy and the Beginning of Madness: Plato, Hegel, Heidegger,
and Foucault on Madness and Death." Earlham College, Indiana.
Graham Harman,
"Tool-Being: Elements in a Theory of Objects." The American University
in Cairo, Egypt.
Elizabeth Hoppe,
"Looking for Eternity at Two
O'Clock: Plato on Time and the Unknowable." Lewis University,
Illinois.
Paul Schafer, "The
Praxis of Philosophy: Nature, Reason, and Freedom in the Young Marx's
Criticism of Hegelian Idealism." Xavier
University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Anna Vaughn, "The
Generation of Creation: F.W.J. Schelling's Early Plato Studies." Humanities Center,
DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois.
1997-1998
Jason Drucker, "Semiotics, Scriptural Hermeneutics and Rhetoric in the
Works of St. Augustine."
Lyat Friedman, "Reading and Re-reading
Eros: An Examination of Desires." University of Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Ruman Ji,
"Freedom: The Unifying Thread of Sartre's Ethics."
Kevin Miles,
"Razing Ethical Stakes: Tragic Transgression in Aristotle's Conception
of Equity." Villanova
University, Pennsylvania.
Elaine Miller,
"Science as a Work of Art: The Construction of Nature and Culture in
Kant, Goethe, Holderlin, Hegel, and Nietzsche." Miami
University of Ohio.
1995-1996
Rod Coltman, "Dwelling in the Middle: Dialectical Hermeneutics and the
Topology of Being." Collin
County Community College, Texas.
David Gunkel, "The
Face of Janus: Encyclopedia and the
End(s) of Philosophy." Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Wendell Kisner,
"Life as Idea: The Irreducibility of Life to Mechanism in Hegel's Logic."
Mary O'Neill,
"Hegel's Theory of Poverty in the Philosophy of Right and its
Application to the Problem of Modern Poverty."
Joel Shapiro, "The
Life of Art: Kant as Genealogist and Diagnostician of Judgement and
Genius."
Kathleen Dow-Magnus,
"Hegel and the Symbolic Medium of Spirit." Mount St. Mary’s
University, Maryland.
David Ensign,
"Responding Before the Law: Toward an Ethics after Derrida."
Matthew Kallammakal,
"Presuppositions of the Scientific Ethics of John Dewey." Aquinas College,
Gopalur-on-sea, India.
1994-1995
Pedro Gonzalez, "Man as Radical Reality: The Dialectic of Lived
Experience in the Philosophy of Jose Ortega y Gasset." Barry University,
Miami.
Ron Nahser,
"Reclaiming the Pragmatism of Pierce and Royce for American Business:
Learning to Interpret the Signs." Board Member of Institute for Business
and Professional Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago,
Illinois.
1993-1994
Ann Gunkel, "Eros, Techne, and Woman in Plato's Timaeus." Carthage College, Wisconsin;
now at Columbia College, Chicago,
Illinois.
Randy Honold,
"Nietzsche's Discourse of Forgetting." Graduate Office, DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois.
Jeffrey Powell,
"Heidegger's Be-wegung into Language." Marshall
University, West Virginia.
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