BU Philosophy has an exceptionally strong placement record and works hard to place students in academic jobs even in this difficult job market. According to Academic Placement Data, 68% of graduates find a permanent academic position, which is why BU is tied for fourth highest placement worldwide (150 departments surveyed).
Our dedicated Director of Graduate Placement, Victor Kumar, works one-on-one with our graduate students progressing towards the job placement phase and offers a collaborative, supportive Graduate Placement Seminar each semester. Our students develop and critique each others’ materials, practice interviewing, and learn about different job markets (e.g. international, teaching-focused, and more). The records below are maintained to celebrate the incredible placements our graduate students have achieved in the past, and function as a networking infrastructure for current graduate students to benefit from.
If you have questions, or if you are a BU alumnus of our doctoral program and would like to share an update on your job placement, please contact our DGP, Victor Kumar, at vckumar@bu.edu.
2024
Marie Kerguelen Feldblyum Le Blevennec (2024 PhD)
2024: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the University of Alabama.
Paul Goldberg (2022 PhD)
2024: Tutor (tenure track) at St John’s College in Annapolis
Jack Harris (2024 PhD)
2024: Teaching Assistant Professor (non tenure track) at North Carolina State
Irina Mikhalevich
Micah Trautmann (2024 PhD)
2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Forced Displacement, Boston University
2023
Zara Amdur (2023 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor of the Practice, Texas Tech University
Federica Bocchi (2023 PhD)
2023: Postdoctoral Fellow (28 month term), University of Copenhagen
Cansu Hepcaglayan (2023 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Thomas Jefferson University
James Kinkaid (2019 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Bilkent University
Jordan Kokot (2022 PhD)
2023: Visiting Assistant Professor (non tenure track), Brandeis University
Rebeccah Leiby (2022 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Elon University.
2022: Hoffberger Ethics Fellow, University of Baltimore
Joshua Lo (2023 PhD)
2023: Tutor (tenure track), Thomas Aquinas University
Ben Roth
2023: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Emerson College
Erin Seeba
2023: Visiting Lecturer, Trinity College
Joel Van Fossen (2023 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor, Hosei University
Aja Watkins (2023 PhD)
2023: Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022
Zachary Joachim (2021 PhD)
2022: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Denison University
2021: Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University
Getty Lustila (2020 PhD)
2022: Assistant Teaching Professor (tenure track), Northeastern University
2021: Visiting Lecturer, Instructor, Northeastern University and Clemente Course for the Humanities;
2020: Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stonehill College
2021
Brian Julian
2021: Tutor, Gutenberg College
Previous Position: Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston University MET
Dissertation: The Source of Life: Activity, Capacity, and Biology in Aristotle’s Account of Soul
Zachary Joachim
2021: Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University
Dissertation: Logic and Real Presence in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Susan Kennedy (2020 PhD)
2021: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Santa Clara University
2020: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Embedded Ethics), Harvard University
Guy Schuh (2017 PhD)
2021: Assistant Professor (tenure track) University of Alabama, Honors College
2018-21: Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University
2017-2018: Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University
2020
Ian Dunkle (2018 PhD)
2020: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi (tenure-track)
2018-20: Lecturer (non tenure track): Boston University, Emerson College, Merrimack College
Joseph Frigault (2020 PhD)
2020: Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont-McKenna
David Jennings
2020: Associate Teaching Professor (tenured), University of California-Merced.
Previous Position: Lecturer, University of California-Merced; Adjunct Lecturer, Suffolk University.
Dissertation: Friendship as Philosophy in Plato’s Lysis
Eric Scarffe (2020 PhD)
2020: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Florida International University
Maité Cruz Tleugabulova (2019 PhD)
2020: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Union College
2019-20: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Iowa
2019
Kuei-Chen Chen (2019 PhD)
2019: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Tunghai University
Kurt Blankschaen (2019 PhD)
2019: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Daemen College
Katherine Valde (2019 PhD)
2019: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Wofford College
2018
Joseph Gamache (2018 PhD)
2018: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Marian University (Indianapolis)
James Kinkaid
2018: Lecturer, Boston University, Boston College
Dissertation: Heidegger’s Science of Being, 1919-1930
Anandita Mukherji (2018 PhD)
2018: Assistant Professor (tenure track; now tenured), Regis University (Denver)
Valerie Williams (2018 PhD)
2018: Assistant Professor, (tenure-track) Emmanuel College
2017: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Weber State University
2017
I-Kai Jeng (2017 PhD)
2017: Assistant Professor (tenure track; now tenured), National University of Taiwan.
Irina Mikhalevich
2017: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Rochester Institute of Technology
Previous Position: McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation: Experiment and Bias: The Case of Parsimony in Comparative Cognition
2016
Stacey Goguen
2016: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Northeastern Illinois University
Dissertation: Stereotype Threat, Epistemic Agency, and Self-Identity
Mary Catherine McDonald
2016: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Old Dominion University
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Dissertation: Trauma & Adaptation: A Scientifically Informed Phenomenological Account
2015
Ian Blaustein
2015: Lecturer, Tufts University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Northeastern University
Dissertation: Conscience, Moral Motivation, and Self-Deception
2014
Maren Behrensen
2014: Faculty Member, Linköping University
Dissertation: Justifying Exclusion: Political Membership and the Nation-State
Benjamin Roth
2014: Preceptor, Harvard University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Boston University
Dissertation: Narrative, Understanding, and the Self: Heidegger and the Interpretation of the Lived Experience
2013
Brian Marrin
2013: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Dissertation: The Law of Nature in Plato
Mark Pickering
2013: Instructor, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Lynn University
Dissertation: A Phenomenalist Interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason
2012
Shai Biderman
2012: Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University
Dissertation: Philosofilm: Towards a Cinematic Philosophy
Candice Delmas
2012: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Northeastern University
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Dissertation: The Duty to Disobey
Andreas Elpidorou
2012: Associate Professor (tenured), University of Louisville
Previous Position: Lecturer, University of Louisville
Dissertation: On Sensible Matters: A Defense of Conceptual Dualis
Sarah Farkas
2012: Student Support Specialist, Boston University
Previous Position: Adjunct Instructor, Emmanuel College
Dissertation: Uniting Right and Duty: Hegel’s Critical Appropriation of Kant’s
Hege Finholt
2012: Senior Lecturer, University of Oslo
Previous Position: Visiting Researcher, Free University in Brussels
Dissertation: The Sovereign Nation-State: A Reconsideration in Light of European Integration
John Grey
2012: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Boston University
Dissertation: Spinoza’s Account of Composition
Carolyn Jennings
2012: Professor and Chair of Philosophy at University of California, Merced
Previous Position: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Antwerp
Dissertation: Attention, Subject, and World
Karolina Lewestam
2012: Lecturer, Warsaw University
Dissertation: The Hare and the Tortoise: Problems with the Notion of Action in Ethics
Monica Link
2012: Lecturer, Tufts University
Dissertation: What’s Wrong with the Problem of Moral Luck
2011
Andrew German
2011: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Ben Gurion University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University
Dissertation: Subjectivity as a Philosophical Problem: The Case of Hegel and Plato
David Jennings
2011: Lecturer, University of California Merced
Previous Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Suffolk University
Dissertation: Friendship as Philosophy in Plato’s Lysis
John McHugh
2011: Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College
Dissertation: Sympathy, Self, and Society: Smith’s Response to Hume
Matt Meyer
2011: Associate Professor (tenured), University of Scranton
Previous Position: Visiting Lecturer, Brandeis University
Dissertation: Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients: An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
Benjamin Sherman
2011: Lecturer, Brandeis University
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University
Dissertation: Epistemically Responsible Disagreement and the Moral Non-Conformist
Joshua Wood
2011: Lecturer, University of California Riverside
Previous Position: Visiting Lecturer, Wellesley College
Dissertation: Hume’s Analysis of Human Agency
2010
Lauren Freeman
2010: Professor (tenured), University of Louisville
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
Dissertation: Ethical Dimensions in Martin Heidegger’s Early Thinking
Luciana Garbayo
2010: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Central Florida
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Dissertation: Empathy Revisited: Game Theory, Dialogue & Morality
Gal Kober
2010: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Bridgewater State University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Tufts University
Dissertation: Biology Without Species: A Solution to the Species Problem
Mahon O’Brien
2010: Senior Lecturer (tenured), University of Sussex
Previous Position: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University College Dublin
Dissertation: Authenticity: From Resolutement to Releasement
Orla Richardson
2010: Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland
Previous Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Bridgewater State University
Dissertation: Success and Reliability: Methodological Issues in Scientific Inquiry
Alessandro Torza
2010: Associate Research Fellow (tenure-track), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Boston University
Dissertation: Models for Counterparts: A Revisionary Study of the Ontology and Semantics of Modal Logic
2009
Martin Black
2009: Part-Time Faculty, Boston College
Previous Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Suffolk University
Dissertation: Socrates on Dialogue, the Forms, and Eros: Plato’s Decision of to Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium
Iskra Fileva
2009: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Dissertation: Behind Action
Keren Gorodeisky
2009: Associate Professor (tenured), Auburn University
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Auburn University
Dissertation: The Romantic Structure of Kant’s Conception of the Judgment of Beauty
Anthony Reeves
2009: Associate Professor (tenured), Binghamton University
Dissertation: How Ought Judges Decide? A Moral Theory of Adjudication
Chris Surprenant
2009: Associate Professor (tenured), University of New Orleans
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Dissertation: Kantian Virtue and Civil Society
2008
Bill Devlin
2008: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Bridgewater State University
Dissertation: Defending the Enterprise: A Theory of Truth for Thomas Kuhn
Jonathan Hansen
2008: Senior Lecturer, Harvard University
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Cambridge College
Dissertation: Self-Knowledge and the Art of Politics in Plato’s Alcibiades Major
Alice MacLachlan
2008: Associate Professor (tenured), York University
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, York University
Dissertation: The Nature and Limits of Forgiveness
Ingvild Torsen
2008: Associate Professor (tenured), University of Oslo
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Florida International University
Dissertation: After Aesthetics: Martin Heidegger and the End of Art
Franco Trivigno
2008: Professor (tenure-track), University of Oslo
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Dissertation: The Philosophical Muse: On Comedy in the Platonic Dialogues
2007
Timothy Brownlee
2007: Associate Professor (tenured), Xavier University
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Xavier University
Dissertation: Freedom of Conscience and Subjective Right in Hegel’s Political Philosophy
Silvia Carli
2007: Associate Professor (tenured), Skidmore College
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Xavier University
Dissertation: Aristotle and the Nature of the ‘Who’
Jamie Kelly
2007: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Vasser College
Dissertation: Cognitive Bias and Democracy: A Behavioral Approach to Normative Democratic Theory
Constantinos Mekios
2007: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Stonehill College
Previous Position: Adjunct Professor, Stonehill College
Dissertation: Approaching Organisms as Systems: A Critical Study of the Method of ‘Systems Biology’
Regan Penaluna
2007: Assistant Professor, St. John’s College
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Luther College
Dissertation: Women’s Place? Moral Philosophy and Feminist Thought in Astell, Marsham, and Cockburn
Justin Steinberg
2007: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Brooklyn College
Dissertation: Liberty, Action, and the State in Spinoza
Charles Wolfe
2007: Fellow: History and Philosophy of Science Unit, University of Sydney
Dissertation: Locating Mind in Causal Work
Tyler Wunder
2007: Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dissertation: Warrant and Religious Epistemology: Critique of Plantinga
2006
Bret Doyle
2006: Instructor, Boston University
Previous Position: Visiting Professor, Skidmore College
Dissertation: The Legitimate Fruits of Descartes’ Rules
Barry Gilbert
2006: Managing Director, School of Business, Northeastern University
Previous Position: Instructor, Harvard University
Dissertation: The Morality of Knowledge in Nietzsche’s Geneaology
Khalil Habib
2006: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Salve Regina University
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University
Dissertation: Hobbes’ Science of Politics
Montgomery Link
2006: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Suffolk University
Dissertation: Wittgenstein and Infinity
Edward Richards
2006: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Previous Position: Instructor, University of Tennessee
Dissertation: Is Rotation Absolute? A Historical Examination
Mary Troxell
2006: Associate Professor of the Practice of Philosophy (tenured), Boston College
Dissertation: The Will in Schopenhauer’s System
James Wood
2006: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Xavier University
Previous Position: Lecturer, Boston University
Dissertation: The Dialectic of Good in Plato’s Philebus
2005
Nir Eisikovits
2005: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Suffolk University
Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Suffolk University
Dissertation: Sympathizing with the Enemy: A Theory of Political Reconciliation
Charles Lowney
2005: Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University
Dissertation: Frege and Wittgenstein on the Distinction Between Language as a Calculus and Language as the Universal Medium
Mark Nyvlt
2005: Associate Professor, Dominican University College
Dissertation: Aristotle and Plotinus on the Simplicity of Nous
David Shikiar
2005: Adjunct Faculty, Providence College
Dissertation: Being and Substance in Aristotle
2003
Bernard Prusak
2003: Professor (tenured), King’s College (PA)
Dissertation: The Laughing Body: Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology Revisited
2001
Nicolas De Warren
2001: Associate Professor (tenured), Pennsylvania State University