Graduate Program Placement
The majority of our students choose to go on to doctoral study in philosophy or a related discipline, while the rest either pursue further graduate study in other areas, or they seek employment outside academe.
Since 2015, 26 of our 32 MA students who have chosen the thesis option have applied to PhD programs, and 25 of 26 (96.1%) have been accepted with funding. (No non-thesis students have applied to PhD programs during this time period.) The table below lists the placement results for all students who have chosen the thesis option in recent years.
| Year | MA Thesis Title | Applied to PhD Programs? | Placement (fully funded Philosophy PhD acceptances unless otherwise specified) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Phenomenological Investigation of Holy Anorexia: A Feminist Interjection on Incarnation | Yes | Stony Brook University (also accepted at DePaul, Villanova) |
| 2025 | Dwelling at the End of Nature: Ecological Heidegger in the Anthropocene | Yes | University of North Texas |
| 2025 | The Ideological Risk of Anti-Idealism | Yes | Brown University (also accepted at Binghamton, Georgetown, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina) |
| 2025 | Schelling's The Ages of the World as Existentialist Narrative | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2025 | Narrative Identity and the Implementation of Trauma-Informed Mental Health Care | No | |
| 2024 | The Necessary Inclusion of Care Ethics in the Treatment of Addicted Persons | Yes | University of South Carolina (also accepted at Temple, Tennessee) |
| 2024 | Deconstruction and Dialectics: Revisiting Derrida's Early Reading of Hegel | Yes | Duquesne (also accepted at Memphis, Villanova, Western Ontario) |
| 2024 | Authenticity as Being-in-the-World | Yes | Temple (also accepted at Hawai'i, USF) |
| 2024 | On Nature, Reason, and the Socio-Historical Dimension of Knowledge: A Conversation Between John McDowell and Hans-Georg Gadamer | Yes | University of Kentucky (also accepted at USF) |
| 2024 | The Crisis of the Geosciences: a Husserlian and Latourian Analysis of the Lack of Faith in Climate Science and our Responses to Climate Change | No | Masters in Counseling program |
| 2024 | Decoupling Edward Zalta's Intensional Logic from his Metaphysics of Intentionality | No | |
| 2023 | Misgivings About the Given: Externalist Elements in Bonjour's Internalist Foundationalism | Yes | University of Georgia (also accepted at Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina) |
| 2023 | The Necessity of Integrity and Stare Decisis in Anglo-American Judicial Systems | Yes (PhD & MLA) | Converse University (MLA) |
| 2023 | Approaching a Theory of Public Health Ethics | Yes | St. Louis University (Bioethics & Philosophy) |
| 2023 | Thinking the Interior: Supplementing Graham Harman's Weird Formalism with Spatial Intimacy | No | MBA program (fully funded) |
| 2022 | The Double-Bind of the Black Scholar: How Racial Embodiment Engages with Academia | Yes | Memphis (also accepted at Purdue) |
| 2022 | Painting, Intersubjectivity, and Ethics in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty | Yes | Buffalo (also accepted at University of South Florida) |
| 2021 | Benevolent Politics: A Proposal for Maternal Governance | Yes | University of Hawai'i |
| 2021 | Anxiety and Death in Being and Time: An Exercise in Formal Indication | Yes | Texas A&M (also accepted at Buffalo, Hawai'i, Memphis, New Mexico) |
| 2021 | Naming the Virtual: History through Hegel and Deleuze | Yes | Emory |
| 2020 | Nishitani Keiji's Solution to the Problem of Nihilism: The Way to Emptiness | Yes | University of Hawai'i |
| 2020 | Meliorism in the 21st Century | Yes | Texas A&M |
| 2020 | Phenomenology and Metaphysical Realism | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2020 | From One to All: The Evolution of Camus' Absurdism | Yes | employed outside academe (applied to only one (non-philosophy) program) |
| 2019 | Property Individuation | Yes | University of Nebraska |
| 2019 | On the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Rationality | Yes | University of Maryland |
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