Placement Record

Temple University’s Department of Philosophy provides extensive placement support to its graduate students and places most of them into research or teaching positions in philosophy. Graduate students work closely with their advisors, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Placement Director to prepare for the academic job market. The Placement Director runs job market workshops every year, which all graduate students are encouraged to attend, and supports candidates who are on the job market. Our recent Ph.D.s, going back to 2014, are listed below with their current position, initial job placement after Temple, and dissertation title and advisor. Names include links to academic websites whenever available. To make updates, please email our current Placement Director, Prof. Eugene Chislenko, at [click-for-email].

2024

Brooke Sharpe
Adjunct Instructor, Temple University
Inside Out: Cavendish on Self-Knowledge, Perception, and Figure
Advisor: Colin Chamberlain

2023

Katherine Brelje 
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University
Initial placement: Adjunct Instructor, Bridgewater College 
Caring for Plants: Care Ethics in Relationships Between Human Carers and Plant Cared-Fors
Advisor: Miriam Solomon

Michael Glass 
Adjunct Instructor, Rowan University
Kierkegaard and Feuerbach on the Nature of Christianity
Advisor: Espen Hammer

James Taplin
Instructor and Program Manager, College of Business, Oregon State University
Nietzsche on Culture and Education
Advisor: Kristin Gjesdal

2022

Jackson Hoerth
Kant and the Dual Role of the Imagination: Content, Form, and Judgments of Beauty 
Advisor: Lara Ostaric

2021

Moonyoung Hwang
Research Collaborator V, Meta (via Tundra Technical Solutions)
Advisor: Gerald Vision

Ziqian Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University, Post-doctoral Fellow, 2022-2025
Malebranche’s Theodicy for Natural Evils
Advisor: Colin Chamberlain

2020

Dan DalMonte
Adjunct Professor (initial placement), Rowan University
Transcendental Idealism as a Framework for Agent-Causal Libertarianism
Advisor: Lara Ostaric

Jake Jackson
Lecturer (initial placement), University of Pennsylvania
Epistemically Adrift: Mood Disorders and Navigating Responsibility
Advisor: Miriam Solomon

2019

Katie Brennan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Salve Regina University
Initial placement: Morgan State University, Lecturer, 2019-2020
Nietzsche on Suffering, Affirmation, and Modern Tragedy
Advisor: Kristin Gjesdal

Brian Land
High School Math Teacher
Function and Goodness in the Work of Philippa Foot
Advisor: David Wolfsdorf

Julie Ragatz
Vice President, Carson Group
The Eclipse of Institutionalism? An Investigation into the Formation of Consensus Around Neoclassical Economies in the 1950s
Advisor: Miriam Solomon

2018

José Luis Fernández
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
Initial placement: Fairfield University and Metropolitan College, Adjunct Instructor
Kant’s Propletic Philosophy of History: The World Well-Hoped
Advisor: Espen Hammer

Carmen Fosner
Lecturer, Oakland University
Initial placement: Rowan University, Adjunct Instructor
Infinitism, Skepticism, and the Regress Problem
Advisor: Gerald Vision

Thomas Whaling
Non-academic career
Being Thought and Thinking Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic
Advisor: Espen Hammer

2017

Justin Fugo
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Dayton
Initial placement: Bryn Mawr College, Visiting Assistant Professor
Being ‘The Veil of Race-Neutrality’: Sharing Responsibility for Racial Justice and Cultivating Democratic Equality of Difference
Advisor: Espen Hammer

2016

Brad Elicker
Instructor, Rowan University
Initial placement: Saint Joseph’s University, Visiting Assistant Professor
The Mediated Nature of Literature: Exploring the Artistic Signifiance of the Visible Text
Advisor: Joseph Margolis

Rachel Falkenstern
Associate Professor (with tenure), St. Francis College, New York
Initial placement: St. Francis College, New York, Assistant Professor
Hegel’s Theory of Tragic Heroes: The Historical Progress of Subjectivity
Advisor: Kristin Gjesdal

Jeremy Millington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Portland
Initial placement: University of the Arts, Adjunct Instructor
An Ethics of Engaging with Art: From Criticism to Conversation
Advisor: Joseph Margolis

Ben White
Instructor, Oakland University
Initial placement: University College, Dublin, Assistant Professor
Mind-Body Dualism and Mental Causation
Advisor: Gerald Vision

2015

Oscar Barragán
Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Penn State: Berks
Initial placement: University of Southern California, Lecturer
The Puzzling Nature of Material Objects: A Study of Co-Location
Advisor: Gerald Vision

Erum Naqvi
Freelance social and cultural researcher
Initial placement: The Pratt Institute NY, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Comparative Ontology and Iranian Classical Music
Advisor: Philip Alperson

2014

Andrea Baldini
Professor of Philosophy, Alliance University
Initial placement: Nanjing University, International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellow
Public Art: A Critical Approach
Advisor: Joseph Margolis

Patrick Denehy
Instructor, West Chester University
Initial placement: Drexel University, Adjunct Instructor
The Space of Motivations
Advisor: Espen Hammer

Jina Fast
Assistant Professor of Ethics and the Common Good, Hampshire College
Initial Placement: West Chester University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies 
Engendering Subjectivity: A Study in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir
Advisor: Lewis Gordon

Qrescent Mason
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College
Initial Placement: Berea College, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies 
An Ethical Disposition Toward the Erotic: The Early Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Black Feminist Philosophy
Advisor: Lewis Gordon