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Placements

Your Success Story Is Waiting… From pursuing a job in higher education to working in human rights or research, our students enjoy a variety of career options upon graduation. According to a recent Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis blog, the placement rate for students graduating with a Vanderbilt philosophy Ph.D. (between 2019-2023) is well ahead (51% placement) of other schools represented (41% placement) in the report.

See below where our graduate students have ended up, along with their dissertation focus, and job placement.

Andrew Burnside
“Spinoza and Critical Theory”
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Lecturer

Kelly Cunningham
“Matters of Trust”
Bentley University, Lecturer (Permanent)

Eric MacPhail
“The Production of Ideology: Human Productive Activity in Hegel, Marx, and Márkus”
Tennessee State University, Instructor

Tempest Henning
“Argumentative and Epistemic Oppression: A Black Feminist Analysis Toward Argumentative Justice”
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington

Takunda Matose
“What’s the Point of Health Care?”
Harvard University, Safra Center for Ethics Postdoc (2021–2022); Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Sebastian Ramirez
“Racism’s Revenge: A Du Boisian Theory of White Supremacist Ideology”
Texas Tech University, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

Kelly Swope
“Sowing Fresh Seeds on Scorched Earth: G.W.F. Hegel’s Concept of Bildung,”
Xavier University, Visiting Professor

Sabeen Ahmed
“Coloniality and the Racial Ontopolitics of Law: Foucault’s Juridical Power Reconsidered”
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Institute Legal Humanities Cluster

Alyssa Lowery
“Complicating Religion in Public Reason”
Vanderbilt University, Lecturer

Sarah Gorman
“The Role of Waste in Modern Political Philosophy”
Vanderbilt University, Postdoc

Elizabeth Lanphier
“Complicit Care: Health Care in Community”
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Postdoc; University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Assistant Professor of UC Pediatrics and Philosophy (Tenure-Track)

Lyn Radke
“A Defense of Angry Blame”
Vanderbilt University, Postdoc and Lecturer

Eric Ritter
“Cavell, Skepticism, and the Ordinary Mind”
Vanderbilt University, Postdoc

Glenn Trujilo
“No Laughing Matter: Playfulness and a Good Life”
University of Louisville, Assistant Professor (Term)

Shannon Fyfe
“Responsibility and the Harm of Mass Sexual Slavery”
George Mason University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Amy McKiernan
“Blaming Ourselves and Others”
Dickinson College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Geoffrey Adelsberg
“Traumatic Loss and Responsibility”
Edgewood College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Alejandro Arango
“Social Enactive Perception: Practices, Experience, and Contents”
Tennessee State University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship; Gonzaga University, Lecturer of Philosophy (Permanent)

Mary Butterfield
“Deweyan Democracy and Reconciliation in Canada”
University of British Columbia, Research Facilitator

Luke Semrau
“In Defense of Kidney Sales”
Georgetown University, Junior Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics

Adam Burgos
“Political Resistance and the Constitution of Equality”
Bucknell University Postdoc; Bucknell University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Elizabeth Edenberg
“Political Liberalism and Its Feminist Potential”
Fordham University Postdoc; Georgetown University, Postdoc; Baruch College CUNY, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Andrew Forcheimes
“Putting Reasons First: A Defense of Normative Non-Naturalism”
Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Emily McGill
“Feminism, Liberalism, and Relational Autonomy”
Keene State College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Andrea Pitts
“Racial Interpellation and Second-Personhood: Understanding the Normative Dynamics of Race Talk”
University of North Carolina Charlotte, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Paul Morrow
“Social Norms in the Theory of Mass Atrocity and Transitional Justice”
University of Virginia, Postdoc; University of Dayton Ohio, John M. Meagher Human Rights Fellow, Human Rights Center

Jessica Polish
“Sexual Difference in Hegel’s Encyclopaedia in its Logical, Natural, and Spiritual Aspects”
Berea College, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; Queens College CUNY, Lecturer

Garrett Bredeson
University of Colorado Boulder
Teaching Assistant Professor

Rebecca Tuvel
“Epistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach”
Rhodes College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)