Recent Job Placements
Blaine Swen, 2013
Creator and Director, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: "The Logic of Divine-Human Reconciliation: A Critical Analysis of Penal Substitution as an Explanatory Feature of Atonement"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser
Stacy Bautista, 2012
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Oakton Community College, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Ontology in Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Adriaan T. Peperzak
Alberto Bertozzi, 2012
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Oakton Community College, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Eros in Plotinus: Attempt at a Systematic Reconstruction (with a Preliminary Chapter on Plato)”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Adriaan T. Peperzak
Won Choi, 2012
N/A
Dissertation Title: "A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello
Justin Marquis, 2012
One year full-time Position, Philosophy Department, American University, Washington, D.C.
Dissertation Title: “Nietzsche’s Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Jaqueline Scott
Kyle Thomsen, 2012
Tenure Track Professor, Philosophy Department, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
Dissertation Title: "Giving Voice to the Vulnerable: Discourse Ethics and Amnesty for Undocumented Immigration"
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Timothy Weidel, 2012
Visiting Professor, Philosophy Department, DeVry University, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Beyond Utility, Rights, and Care: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Schweickart
Brian Buckley, 2011
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Dissertation Title: “Restoring the Balance: Setting Aside Naturalism in Favor of Personhood in Extreme Cases”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Mark Chakoian, 2011
Tenure Track Professor, Philosophy Department, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Dissertation Title: “Global Distributive Justice After Rawls: A Modified Poggean Argument for how much we Harm the World's Poorest”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Jeffrey M. Courtright, 2011
Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Dissertation Title: "Thinking Through the Phenomenon of Trust: A Philosophical Investigation"
Dissertation Director: Dr. Adriaan T. Peperzak
Peter Hudis, 2011
Part-time Professor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago,
Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Oakton Community College, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Marx's Concept of the Transcendence of Value Production”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Schweickart
Edyta Imai, 2011
Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Contemplation and Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Blake Dutton
Gregory Wolcott, 2011
Director of Seminars, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Dissertation Title: “On the Needs of Human Persons”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser
Peter Bergeron, 2010
Full-Time Instructor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “Apape and Personal Knowledge”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser
Alonso Villaran Contavalli, 2010
Professor, Universidad del Pacifico, Peru and Of Counsel, Barrios & Fuentes, Peru
Academic Program Coordinator - School of Education - Loyola University Chicago
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation Title: “An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Victoria Wike
John Garcia, 2010
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Dissertation Title: “Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship of the Moral Law to the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Victoria Wike
Justin Harrison, 2010
Chair of the Liberal Arts program, Ashford University, Clinton, IA
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Dissertation Title: “Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello
Kathryn King, 2010
N/A
Dissertation Title: “Corporations as Group Agents/Responsible Collectives in Theory and Practice”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ozar
Darin McGinnis, 2010
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
Dissertation Title: “Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello
Christopher McTavish, 2010
Contract Instructor, Philosophy Department, University of Alberta, Canada
Academic Coordinator, Philosophy Department, Athabasca University, Canada
Dissertation Title: “An Experimental Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to Dogmatism, Formalism and Rigorism”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Victoria Wike
Nicholas Mowad, 2010
Temporary Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of History, Geography, Philosophy, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
Dissertation Title: “The Soul and the Body in Hegel's Anthropology”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Adriaan T. Peperzak
Andrew Pierce, 2010
Instructor of Philosophy, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Dissertation Title: “Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Joseph Alava Kabari, 2009
Reverend at Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Dissertation Title: “John Rawls, Political, Liberalism and Moral Virtues”
Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Bradley Nelson Seeman, 2009
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Taylor University, Upland, IN
Dissertation Title: “Moral Reasons Arbitrariness”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser