Awarded PhDs and Placements

Degrees Listed by Academic Year

2004-2005 

PhDs 

  • Daniel Blair 
  • Timothy Nulty 

MAs 

  • Theodore Bach 
  • Kevin Boyle 
  • Robert Crum 
  • Aaron Exum 
  • Alexander Koutsares 
  • Jason Leppaluoto 
  • William Lovejoy 
  • Franklin Scott 
  • David Slutsky 

2003-2004 

MAs 

  • Daniel Blair 
  • Richard Brown 
  • Donovan Cox 
  • Sean Doherty 
  • Sarah Lisitano 
  • Douglas Osborne 
  • Lawrence Turmel 

2002-2003 

PhDs 

  • Lisa M. Cassidy 
    • Advisor: Diana Tietjens Meyers 
    • Dissertation: Different Bodies 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ramapo College of NJ 
    • Current Appointment: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ramapo College of NJ 
  • William D. Cornwell III 
    • Website: https://aue.academia.edu/WilliamCornwell
    • Advisor: Ruth Millikan 
    • Dissertation: Knowledge Without Justification 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point 
    • Current Appointment: Dean of the College of Education at the American University in the Emirates; Professor of Philosophy at Salem State University 
  • Weimin Sun 
    • Advisor: John Troyer 
    • Dissertation: Interpretations of Probability 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor, California State University Northridge (tenure track) 
    • Current Appointment: Professor, California State University Northridge 

MAs 

  • Veebha Bhatt 
  • Keith Hirokawa 
  • Andrew Magnusson 

 2001-2002 

PhDs 

  • Erik Anderson 
  • Chris Panza 
    • Advisor: Donald Baxter 
    • Dissertation: Locke's Theory of Abstraction 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Drury University 
    • Current Appointment: Professor of Philosophy and Director of Asian Studies, Drury College 
  • Gordon Stevenson 

MAs 

  • James Mullen 

2000-2001 

PhDs 

  • Paula Droege 
    • Website: http://philosophy.la.psu.edu/directory/pud10 
    • Advisor: Austen Clark 
    • Dissertation: Second Sense: A Theory of Consciousness 
    • First Appointment: Hartwick College 
    • Current Appointment: Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University 
  • Keya Maitra 
    • Advisor: Ruth Millikan 
    • Dissertation: Our knowledge about our own mental states: An externalist account 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Fall 1999 
    • Current Appointment: Professor of Philosophy and Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humantiies, University of North Carolina, Asheville 
  • Virgil Whitmyer 

MAs 

  • Richard Conny Anderson 
  • Florence Birudavol 
  • Justin Fisher 
  • Huiming Ren 

1999-2000 

PhDs 

  • Matthew Berry 
  • Elise Springer 

MAs 

  • Joel Hofstead 
  • Fabio Maldonado 

1998-1999 

PhDs 

  • Andrew Aavatsmark 
    • Advisor: Ruth Millikan 
    • Dissertation: Individuation and Explanation in Cognitive Psychology 
    • First Appointment: Connecticut College Visiting Assistant Prof--1 year 1999-2000 
    • Current Appointment: Teacher, Watkinson School, Hartford CT, Adjunct Professor University of Hartford 
  • Jessica Prata Miller 
  • Xinli Wang 

MAs 

  • Zhaohui Liu 
  • Ricardo Rozzi 
  • Jason Smith 
  • Christopher Yalanis 

1997-1998 

PhDs 

  • Shannon O'Rourke 

MAs 

  • Peter D'Alesandre 
  • Richard Fyffe 
  • Yanfeng Lu 
  • James Phelps 
  • Arena Simmons 
  • Karl Stocker 
  • Karen Storms 
  • Brett Vengroff 
  • James Welter 
  • Forrest Young 

1996-1997 

MAs 

  • Kevin Brodie 
  • Jason Hill 
  • Faith Ozturk 
  • Marla Rubenstein 
  • Sedat Yazici 

1995-1996 

PhDs 

  • Elizabeth A. Dobie 

MAs 

  • Robert Christopherson 
  • Gregory Gale 

1994-1995 

PhDs 

  • Andrew Beedle 
  • Stephen Lahey 
  • Matthew McKeon 

1993-1994 

PhDs 

  • Timothy Eves 
  • Peimin Ni 
    • Website: https://www.gvsu.edu/philosophy/ni-peimin-22.htm  
    • Advisor: Joel Kupperman 
    • Dissertation: Hume and the Definition of Cause 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor, Montana State University 
    • Current Appointment: Professor, Grand Valley State University 

1992-1993 

MAs 

  • Kevin Burstein 
  • Matthew Stordy 

1991-1992 

MAs 

  • Thomas Alexander 
  • George Collier Jr. 
  • David Dupuy 
  • Chenyang Li 
    • Website: https://nanyang.academia.edu/ChenyangLi  
    • Advisor: Joel Kupperman 
    • Dissertation: A Contextual Approach to the Question of Being 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Monmouth College 
    • Current Appointment: Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University 
  • Steven Madden 
  • Peimin Ni 
    • Website: https://www.gvsu.edu/philosophy/ni-peimin-22.htm  
    • Advisor: Joel Kupperman 
    • Dissertation: Hume and the Definition of Cause 
    • First Appointment: Assistant Professor, Montana State University
    • Current Appointment: Professor, Grand Valley State University 
    • Claudia Santelices 
    • Lisa Summa 

    1990-1991 

    PhDs 

    • David Schejbal 

    MAs 

    • Daniel Ginsberg 
    • Darrell Harrison 
    • Lisa Martucci-Thibault 
    • Richard Schubert 

    1989-1990 

    PhDs 

    • Stuart Cedrone 

    MAs 

    • Steven Bayne 
    • Sheela Ken 
    • Jost Muxfeldt 

    1988-1989 

    PhDs 

    • Roma Farion 

    MAs 

    • John Albanese 
    • Ira Israel 
    • Theresa McManus 

    1987-1988 

    MAs 

    • Gustaf Anderson III 
    • Jerome Radin 

    1986-1987 

    MAs 

    • Anne Burkholder 

    1985-1986 

    MAs 

    • Thomas Becker 
    • Martyn Berliner 
    • Timothy Eves 
    • Qian Gong 

    1984-1985 

    PhDs 

    • Ira Newman 

    MAs 

    • Daniel Bulinski 

    1982-1983 

    MAs 

    • Richard Collins 
    • Keith Frome 
    • Oliver Loewy 

    1981-1982 

    PhDs 

    • Joel Marks 
      • Website:  http://www.docsoc.com/  
      • Advisor: Joel Kupperman 
      • Dissertation: Dispassion and the Ethical Life: An Investigation of Causal and Conceptual Connections Among Belief, Desire, Emotion, and the Good (with Frequent References to Buddhism) 
      • First Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. John Fisher College 
      • Current Appointment: Professor Emeritus; University of New Haven; Bioethics Center Scholar, Yale University 
        • Kristin Waters 
        • Martin Wheeler 

        MAs 

        • Lois Gould 
        • Michael Wilcomb 

        1980-1981 

        MAs 

        • Howard Giskin 
        • Charles Kniffen 
        • Armando Sosa 

          1979-1980 

          PhDs 

          • Louis Mazzucco 
          • Mitchell Silver 

            1978-1979 

            PhDs 

            • William Kinnaman 

            MAs 

            • Mary Ruff 

            1977-1978 

            PhDs 

            • Jonathan Bakker 
            • Jonathan Lee 
            • Dorothy Mazzocca 

              MAs 

              • Karl Drochner-Karme 
              • Matthew Skellenger 

              1976-1977 

              PhDs 

              • Sandra Scott 

              MAs 

              • Robert Leary 
              • David Weinstein 

              1975-1976 

              PhDs 

              • Loren Lamasky 
                • Dissertation: Plantinga on God and Other Minds:  An Examination of Inductive Apologetics 
              • William Edward Tolhurst 

                  MAs 

                  • Pater Angeloff 
                  • Mark Aronson 
                  • Charles Giles 
                  • Thomas Gledhill 
                  • Jane Isherwood 
                  • Joan Kulikowski 
                  • Zygmunt Loin 
                  • Jennifer Rosenthal 
                  • Sarah Shaftman 
                  • Charles Summa 

                  1974-1975 

                  PhDs 

                  • George Munda Carew 

                  1973-1974 

                  PhDs 

                  • Richard Henry Reinkraut 

                  MAs 

                  • Richard Slayton 

                  1972-1973 

                  PhDs 

                  • Earnest Paul Anderson 
                  • Sue Perrott Stafford