Harvard University Department of Philosophy: Job Placements

Placement
Below is information regarding the placement record of the philosophy department over the last eleven years. Unless noted otherwise, the directory is organized by the academic year in which students received their PhDs. The right-hand column lists the person's current position and the title of his or her dissertation. All positions are tenure-track, or tenured, unless otherwise indicated. Please send any updates or corrections to the Web master. See below for important notes.
2007-2008
Jake Beck	Texas Tech University The Structure of Thought
Eli Chudnoff	University of Miami A Study of Rational Intuition
Melissa Frankel	Syracuse University In Defense of Phenomenalism: Why Berkeley is Not All Wrong
David Gray	University College Florida (Post-doctoral fellowship) What Lies Within: Essays on Phenomenology, Psychology, and Self-Knowledge
Paul Katsafanas	University of New Mexico-Albuquerque Practical Reason and the Structure of Reflective Agency
Japa Pallikkathayil	New York University Your Money or Your Life: Coercion in Personal and Political Contexts
Andrew Roche	Wheaton College (Non tenure-track position) University of Oklahoma (Non-tenure-track visiting assistant professor position) The Groundwork for Kant's Metaphysics of Experience
Bharath Vallabha	Bryn Mawr College Agency and the Mind-Body Problem
2006-2007
Tony Corsentino	Wellesley College (Non-tenure-track visiting assistant professor position) Columbia University (Core Curriculum lecturer) Vehicles of Meaning: Essays on Semantic Context-Dependence in Speech and Thought
Martin O'Neill	Centre for Political Theory, Department of Politics, University of Manchester (Post-doctoral fellowship -- to start Fall 2007) Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility
2005-2006
Anthony Coleman	Willamette University Contextualism and Skepticism
Kyla Ebels Duggan	Northwestern University Autonomy and Interpersonal Authority
Arata Hamawaki	University of Chicago, The Franke Institute for the Humanities (Post-doctoral fellowship) Moved to Auburn University in Fall 2007 Self-Imagination and Judgement
Sara Olack	Johns Hopkins University (Post-doctoral fellowship) Punishment as Negative Reciprocity
Thomas Teufel	Baruch College, CUNY Kant's Notion of Aesthetic Purposiveness
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2004-2005
Jinho Kang	SUNY New Paltz Moved to Seoul National University in 2006 The Road to the Tractatus: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy
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2003-2004
Øystein Linnebo (Ph.D. in '02)	University of Bristol Science with Numbers: A Naturalistic Defense of Mathematical Platonism
Patrick Shin	Suffolk University Law School A Conception of Equal Treatment
Abraham Stone (Ph.D. in '00)	University of California, Santa Cruz Husserl and Cavellian Skepticism, With Reference to the Thomistic Theory of Creation
Catherine Wearing (Ph.D. in '02)	Wellesley College Semantics and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Metaphor
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2002-2003
Louis-Philippe Hodgson (Ph.D. in '06)	Glendon College of York University The Demands of External Freedom: Kantian Social Contract Theory and International Right
Waheed Hussain (Ph.D. in '05)	Wharton Business School The Value of Freedom
Hilla Jacobson-Horowitz	Ben-Gurion University, Israel (Post-doctoral Fellowship) Evaluating Phenomenal Consciousness
Michael Rescorla	University of California, Santa Barbara Is Thought Explanatorily Prior to Language?
Sharon Street	New York University Evolution and the Nature of Reasons
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2001-2002
Mary Coleman	Bard College Intentional Explanation and Practical Reasoning
Brent Kalar	University of New Mexico Creating a Common Sense Beauty, Morality, and Community in Kant's Theory of Taste
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2000-2001
Luca Ferrero	University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Making Up One's Self: Commitments, Agency, and Identity
Aaron James	University of California, Irvine The Objectivity of Practical Reasons
Tom Kelly	University of Notre Dame Moved to Princeton in Fall 2004 The Practical Evaluation of Belief
Katalin Makkai	Barnard College, Columbia University Object, Subject, and the Other: Aesthetic Conditions of Judgment in Kant's Critique of Judgment
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1999-2000
Alyssa Bernstein	Ohio University Human Rights Reconceived: A Defense of Rawls' Law of Peoples
Sean Greenberg	John Hopkins University Moved to University of California, Irvine Hidden Folds of Freedom: Freedom and the Will in Leibniz and Malebranche
Pamela Hieronymi	UCLA Virtue and Its Imitation
Adam Leite	University of Indiana Skepticism, Reasonable Doubts, and the Fragility of Knowledge
Sophia Reibetanz Moreau	University of Toronto (Law and Philosophy, joint) Character, Freedom and Practical Reason
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1998-1999
William Bracken	University of California, Riverside Becoming Subjects: The Agency of Desire in Lacan's Return to Freud
David Macarthur	University of Sydney, Australia Skepitical Reason and Inner Experience
Lionel McPherson	Tufts University Special Concern and the Reach of Moral Principle
Faviola Rivera-Castro	National Autonomous University of Mexico Kant on Virtue and Justice
Sherrilyn Roush	Rice University Conditions of Knowledge
Ori Simchen	University of British Columbia Uses of Mention
Angela Smith	University of Washington, Seattle Attitudes, Agency, and Responsibility
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1997-1998
Talbot Brewer	University of Virginia Character, Desire, and Moral Commitment
Steven Gross	University College London Now at Johns Hopkins University Essays on Linguistic Context-Sensitivity and Its Philosophical Significance
Ian Proops	University of Michigan Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
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1996-1997
Nancy Bauer	Tufts University Recounting Women: Simone de Beauvoir and Feminist Philosophy
Scott Brewer	Harvard University Law School Valuing Reasons: Analogy and Epistemic Deference in Legal Argument
William Bristow	University of California, Irvine Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique
Emily Carson	McGill University Mathematics, Metaphysics and Intuition in Kant
Yuval Dolev	Bar-Ilan University, Israel Time From the Metaphysical and Anti-metaphysical Perspectives
Michael Glanzberg	University of Toronto Now at University of California, Davis The Paradox of the Liar and the Problem of Context
William Haines	Georgetown University (Visiting Assistant Professor) Practical Hedonic Sensibility and the Construction of Goodness
Agnieszka Jaworska	Stanford University Rescuing Oblomov
Tamar Schapiro	Stanford University Caring for Our Principles: Action Under Non-Ideal Conditions
Leif Wenar	University of Sheffield Private Property: Conceptual and Normative Analyses
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Notes
All and only students who currently have some form of academic employment are listed above. Therefore: 1. Students who sought jobs before finishing their degrees but have not yet secured a position and have not yet finished their degrees are not listed above. 2. Some of the students listed in the most recent years may not have received their degrees yet, and may not even have defended. 3. Students who finished their degrees in the years listed above but are still looking for their first tenure-track positions are listed above, so long as they have some form of academic employment.
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Harvard University

Department of Philosophy

Placement

2007-2008

Jake Beck

Eli Chudnoff

Melissa Frankel

David Gray

Paul Katsafanas

Japa Pallikkathayil

Bharath Vallabha

2006-2007

2005-2006

2004-2005

2003-2004

2002-2003

2001-2002

2000-2001

1999-2000

1998-1999

1997-1998

1996-1997

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