Placement for Duquesne Ph.D. Recipients
Spring 2013
Jacob Graham
Dissertation: The Flourishing Self in Aristotle and the Authentic Self in Heidegger
Director: Michael Harrington
Hired as Assistant Professor (starting August 2013) by Bridgewater College.
Spring 2012
James Taylor
Dissertation: Techno-Racism: Heidegger's philosophy of technology and critical philosophies of race
Director: George Yancy
Hired as Lecturer by Kilgore College
Chelsea Harry
Dissertation: Time (Chronos) in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy and of its Place in Early Naturphilosohie (1750-1800)
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor (TT) at Southern Connecticut State University
Summer 2011
Grant Julin
Dissertation: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Repetition: A Re-examining of the Ethical in the
1843 Authorship
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor at St. Francis University
Spring 2011
Frank Scalambrino
Dissertation: Non-being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Deleuze and Derrida
Director: Dan Selcer
Current Position: Adjunct Professor at Kent State University
Jonathan Mounts
Dissertation: The Salvation of the Damned within the Periphyseon
Director: Michael Harrington
Fall 2010
James Stover
Dissertation: Aristotle's Ethics: A Viable System for Today's Business Ethics
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wheeling Jesuit University
Michael Kilivris
Dissertation: Elective Affinities: Heidegger and Adorno on Subjectivity
Director: James Swindal
Current Position: Instructor at Hunter College CUNY and at Fordham University
Spring 2010
Geoff Bagwell
Dissertation: A Study of Plato's Cratylus
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Xavier University (Ohio)
Taine Duncan
Dissertation: Habermas and the Feminist Engagement with Communicative Ethics
Director: James Swindal
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Central Arkansas University
Fall 2009
Melanie Walton
Dissertation: Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-Francois Lyotard and
Pseudo-Dionysius
Director: Lanei Rodemeyer
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Belmont University
Tom Sparrow
Dissertation: Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
Director: Fred Evans
Current Position: Full-time Instructor, Slippery Rock University
Spring 2009
Rev. Doug Peduti SJ
Dissertation; Sprache als Be-wëgen: The Unfolding of Language and Being in Heidegger's
Later Work, 1949-1976
Director: James Swindal
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University
Fall 2008
Eric Duffy
Dissertation: Mounting the State of the World: Theory of the Subject as Actor in the Parallel
Positions of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Jean-Paul Sartre
Director: Tom Rockmore
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Saint Vincent College
Rev. Kenneth Agede CSSp
Dissertation: The Transformation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre
Director: Tom Rockmore
Spring 2008
Joshua Miller
Dissertation: The Human Person as Embodied Spirit: St. Thomas Aquinas & Merleau-Ponty’s
Integral Anthropology
Director: James Swindal
Current Position: Managing Director at SIMA International
Clifford Lee
Dissertation: Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the
Communication of Possibility
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Troy University
Michael Ivins
Dissertation: The Problem of Substantial Generation in Aristotle’s Physical Writings
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Instructor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2007
Emily Katz
Dissertation: A Question of Numbers: Aristotle’s Critique of Platonic Mathematical
Objects, Form-Numbers, and First Principles in Metaphysics M-N
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Spring 2007
Wade Roberts
Dissertation: Re-Reading the Imagery of the Body Politic
Director: Diane Perpich
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Juniata College
Patrick Macfarlane
Dissertation: A Philosophical Commentary On Aristotle’s De Espiritu
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Providence College
Fall 2006
Matthew Morgan
Dissertation: Attending Intending: Meaning and Making Sense in Husserl and Wittgenstein
Director: Lanei Rodemeyer
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Thiel College
Rev. Casimir L. Nyaki, CSSp
Dissertation: Julius K. Nyerere: Radical Equality and Socialism (Ujama)
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University
Spring 2006
Faith Bjalobok
Dissertation: Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the Categorical Imperative
Director: Fred Evans
Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy: Duquesne University, West Virginia University
Antonis Coumoundouros
Dissertation: Plato’s View of Tyranny
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Adrian College
Rev. Thomas Akpen CSSp
Dissertation: Authentic Da-sein as Pathway to Heideggarianism as a PoliticalPhilosophy—A
Political Vibration of Being and Time
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Spiritan School of Philosophy, Isienu,
Nsukka, Nigeria
Fall 2005
George Yancy
Dissertation: Whiteness and Return of the “Black Body”
Director: Fred Evans
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University
Sister Judith K. Parsons, IHM
Dissertation: Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility
Director: Lanei Rodemeyer
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department,
Immaculata University
Matthew C. Eshleman
Dissertation: Power, Subjectivity, and Freedom in the French Context: Sartre and
Foucault on a ‘Post-Modern’ Problem of Agency
Director: Tom Rockmore
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina- Wilmington
Rev. Pachomius Okogie
Dissertation: An Adequate Account of the Sensible World: Aristotle and
Merleau-Ponty, A Comparative Study
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, San Anselmo College, Rome Italy.
Spring 2005
Joseph Campisi
Dissertation: Morals of Language: Habermas, Levinas and Discourse Ethics
Director: Fred Evans
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marist College
Daniel Collins-Cavanaugh
Dissertation: Bergson’s Aristotelian Theory of Duration & The History of Temporality
Director: Tom Rockmore
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Prince George’s Community College
Rev. Felix Charles Owino
Dissertation: Play and Language in Gadamer: An Ontological Interpretation of Nuptial Union
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Sr. Theresa Wambui
Dissertation: Recasting Hegel’s Ethical Theory
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Mark Brouwer
Dissertation: The Limits of Philosophy: Plato’s Sophist and Statesman
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wabash College
Fall 2004
Mary Ann Fenicato
Dissertation: Thinking Outside Pandora’s Box: Now That the Idea of God Has Been
Declared Dead, Has All Hope Been Lost for Philosophy and Humankind?
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Rev. Joseph Penlong Nietlong
Dissertation: Feuerbach in Context: A Philosophical Reassessment
Director: Tom Rockmore
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Mary of the Lake
J. Baynard Woods
Dissertation: Plato’s Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato’s Portrayal of Alcibiades
and Critias
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Chair of History and Politics, Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School
for Public Policy
Diane Bowser
Dissertation: Being-in-the-Web: A Philosophical Investigation of Digital Existence in the
Virtual Age
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Current Position: Instructor, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Clarion University of
Pennsylvania
Spring 2004
Agnieszka Patkowkska
Dissertation: The Language Economy: Literature, Violence, Ethics in Sartre, Blanchot and
Edward Said
Director: Eleanore Holveck
Spring 2003
Robert Johnson
Dissertation: Bodies of Knowledge: Perception in Spinoza and Whitehead
Co-Directors: Wilhelm Wurzer and Stephen Ross
Current Position: Fine Art Handling/ Freelance Art Ecology and Philosophy, Pittsburgh
James Snyder
Dissertation: Time and Eternity in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
Director: Fred Evans
Current Position: Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Mercyhurst College
Fall 2003
Andre Archie
Dissertation: Socratic Encounters: Plato’s Alcibiades
Director: Ron Polansky
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University
Paul Kinsman
Dissertation: Figuring Zarathustra
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Fall 2002
Hulya Guney-Durudogan
Dissertation: Truth, Assumption, and the Subject
Director: Wilhelm Wurzer
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey