{"id":50,"date":"2024-03-06T16:13:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","slug":"graduate-placements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/philosophy\/graduate-placements\/","title":{"rendered":"Placements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information on the placement records of recent graduates are listed below. The Vanderbilt Philosophy PhD program has an above average placement record, and more data on academic placement can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apda.ghost.io\/2024-data-collection-results-a-focus-on-recent-graduates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- NEW ACCORDION * AID 1721-->\n\n<div class=\"panel-group VUaccordion_1721\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\" aria-multiselectable=\"true\">\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10773-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10773\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10773\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10773\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2025<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10773\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10773\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Robert Engelman<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;Social Criticism and the Risk of Unreasonableness,&rdquo; University of the Incarnate Word, Lecturer<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sung Jun Han<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;Madisonian Lottocracy: Filtering, not Decisional&rdquo;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10773 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10085-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10085\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10085\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10085\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2024<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10085\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10085\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Andrew Burnside<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Spinoza and Critical Theory&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nNew Jersey Institute of Technology, Lecturer<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Kelly Cunningham<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Matters of Trust&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nBentley University, Lecturer (Permanent)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Eric MacPhail<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;The Production of Ideology: Human Productive Activity in Hegel, Marx, and M&aacute;rkus&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nTennessee State University, Instructor<br \/>\r\n&quot;Longwood University, Instructor&quot;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10085 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10372-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10372\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10372\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10372\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2023<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10372\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10372\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Lisa Madura<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Toward a Theory of Whiteness and Racial Habit&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUCLA, Post-Doctoral Fellow 2023-2025<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Emerson Bodde<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Emerson Bodde, &ldquo;A Philosophy of Class for the 21st Century,&rdquo; Clemson University, Lecturer; Duke Kunshan University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Adversariality, Grandstanding, and Gender in Argument&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nNorthern Arizona University, Part-Time Faculty; Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis Civil Society Initiative<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10372 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10371-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10371\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10371\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10371\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2022<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10371\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10371\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Sarah DiMaggio<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Rediscovering Kin: The Ethical Significance of Kinship with Nature&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nSarah Lawrence College, Two Year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Philosophy<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Holly Longair<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Cooperative Systems: Characterizing the Requirements of Relational Egalitarian Justice&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nKwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia, Canada, Full Time Regular Instructor<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10371 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10073-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10073\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10073\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10073\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2021<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10073\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10073\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Tempest Henning<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Argumentative and Epistemic Oppression: A Black Feminist Analysis Toward Argumentative Justice&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nAmerican Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington<br \/>\r\n&quot;Fisk University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Takunda Matose<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the Point of Health Care?&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nHarvard University, Safra Center for Ethics Postdoc (2021&ndash;2022); Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<br \/>\r\n&quot;University of Cincinnati Philosophy Department, Ethics Center at Cincinnati Children&rsquo;s Hospital and Medical Center, and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) (Fall 2024)&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sebastian Ramirez<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Racism&rsquo;s Revenge: A Du Boisian Theory of White Supremacist Ideology&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nTexas Tech University, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Kelly Swope<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Sowing Fresh Seeds on Scorched Earth: G.W.F. Hegel&rsquo;s Concept of Bildung,&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nXavier University, Visiting Professor<br \/>\r\n&quot;Miami University, Visiting Assistant Professor (2023-2024);Thomas More University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track, Fall 2024)&quot;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10073 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10074-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10074\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10074\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10074\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2020<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10074\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10074\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Sabeen Ahmed<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Coloniality and the Racial Ontopolitics of Law: Foucault&rsquo;s Juridical Power Reconsidered&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Institute Legal Humanities Cluster<br \/>\r\n&quot;Swarthmore College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Alyssa Lowery<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Complicating Religion in Public Reason&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nVanderbilt University, Lecturer<br \/>\r\n&quot;Assistant Professor, Longwood University (Tenure-Track)&quot;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10074 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10075-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10075\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10075\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10075\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2019<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10075\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10075\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Sarah Gorman<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;The Role of Waste in Modern Political Philosophy&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nVanderbilt University, Postdoc<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Lanphier<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Complicit Care: Health Care in Community&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nVanderbilt University Medical Center Postdoc; University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children&rsquo;s Hospital Medical Center, Assistant Professor of UC Pediatrics and Philosophy (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Lyn Radke<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;A Defense of Angry Blame&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nVanderbilt University, Postdoc and Lecturer<br \/>\r\n&quot;University of Louisville, Assistant Professor (Term)&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Eric Ritter<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Cavell, Skepticism, and the Ordinary Mind&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nVanderbilt University, Postdoc<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Glenn Trujilo<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;No Laughing Matter: Playfulness and a Good Life&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUniversity of Louisville, Assistant Professor (Term)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10075 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10076-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10076\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10076\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10076\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2018<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10076\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10076\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Shannon Fyfe<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Responsibility and the Harm of Mass Sexual Slavery&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nGeorge Mason University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10076 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10077-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10077\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10077\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10077\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2017<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10077\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10077\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Amy McKiernan<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Blaming Ourselves and Others&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nDickinson College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10077 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10078-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10078\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10078\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10078\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2016<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10078\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10078\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Geoffrey Adelsberg<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Traumatic Loss and Responsibility&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nEdgewood College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Alejandro Arango<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Social Enactive Perception: Practices, Experience, and Contents&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nTennessee State University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship; Gonzaga University, Lecturer of Philosophy (Permanent)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Mary Butterfield<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Deweyan Democracy and Reconciliation in Canada&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUniversity of British Columbia, Research Facilitator<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Luke Semrau<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;In Defense of Kidney Sales&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nGeorgetown University, Junior Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics<br \/>\r\n&quot;Bloomsburg University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)&quot;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10078 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10079-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10079\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10079\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10079\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2015<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10079\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10079\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Adam Burgos<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Political Resistance and the Constitution of Equality&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nBucknell University Postdoc; Bucknell University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Edenberg<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Political Liberalism and Its Feminist Potential&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nFordham University Postdoc; Georgetown University, Postdoc; Baruch College CUNY, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Andrew Forcheimes<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Putting Reasons First: A Defense of Normative Non-Naturalism&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nNanyang Technological University Singapore, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Emily McGill<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Feminism, Liberalism, and Relational Autonomy&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nKeene State College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Andrea Pitts<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Racial Interpellation and Second-Personhood: Understanding the Normative Dynamics of Race Talk&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUniversity of North Carolina Charlotte, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10079 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 10080-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading10080\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item10080\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item10080\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>2014<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item10080\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading10080\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><p><strong>Paul Morrow<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Social Norms in the Theory of Mass Atrocity and Transitional Justice&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nUniversity of Virginia, Postdoc; University of Dayton Ohio, John M. Meagher Human Rights Fellow, Human Rights Center<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Jessica Polish<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Sexual Difference in Hegel&rsquo;s Encyclopaedia in its Logical, Natural, and Spiritual Aspects&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nBerea College, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; Queens College CUNY, Lecturer<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Garrett Bredeson<\/strong><br \/>\r\nUniversity of Colorado Boulder<br \/>\r\nTeaching Assistant Professor<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Rebecca Tuvel<\/strong><br \/>\r\n&ldquo;Epistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach&rdquo;<br \/>\r\nRhodes College, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 10080 -->\n\n\n<\/div><!-- END ACCORDION * AID 10080 -->\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on the placement records of recent graduates are listed below. 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