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Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008

MOVING TO FRONT (originally posted February 8)

It’s that time of year again…I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in fall 2008 (or thereafter).  (For schools outside the US, please list new Lecturers who are on presumptively permanent appointments–not temporary lecturers.)  Like last year, you may also post information about post-doc appointments, since there are an increasing number of those in philosophy, many quite attractive.  No anonymous posts will be allowed. The candidates themselves, dissertation advisors, placement directors, department chairs, or faculty members involved with the hiring or the placement of the candidate may all post information.  No hearsay, however:  you must have first-hand knowledge of the placement.  (Please e-mail me about any errors.)

The format of the postings should be as follows:  candidate’s name (name of PhD-granting school) hired by [name of school].  AOS: ________; any prior positions (e.g., a postdoc, a lectureship, a visiting asst prof position).  In the case of a post-doc, it should say not ‘hired by’ but ‘post-doc at’ [name of school].

Here’s an example (fictional):

John Smith (Chicago) hired by Kenyon College.   AOS:  19th-Century Philosophy.  Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University.

Remember:  tenure-track jobs and postdocs only.  I’ll move this thread to the front at various intervals until it looks like the hiring season has wound down.  Please post only once; postings should appear within 24 hours

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50 responses to “Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008”

  1. Jason Turner (Rutgers) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action / Free Will, Philosophy of Language / Philosophical Logic.

    Juha Saatsi (Leeds) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: Philosophy of Science. Previously fixed-term lecturer University of Manchester, University of Leeds.

    Sophie Weeks (Leeds) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: History of Early Modern Science. Currently Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (appointment deferred until 2009).

  2. T. Allan Hillman (Purdue) hired by University of South Alabama. AOS: History of Early Modern / Metaphysics

  3. Robert Thompson (Washington University St. Louis) Hired by Mississippi State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Wabash College and Rice University.

  4. Bart Moffatt (Minnesota) hired by Mississippi State University. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science.

  5. Tushar Irani (Northwestern) hired by Wesleyan University (joint appointment: Philosophy Department, and the College of Letters). AOS: Ancient Philosophy and Virtue Ethics.

  6. J.S. Swindell (Michigan State) hired by Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. AOS: Bioethics, Ethics (esp. moral psychology and action theory).

  7. Fiona Leigh (Monash) post-doc at King's College London. AOS: Ancient

    Angela Ballantyne (Monash) post-doc at Yale. AOS: Bioethics. Previously lecturer at Flinders.

    Jill Craigie (Monash) post-doc at King's College London. AOS: Cog Sci/Moral Psych.

  8. Stephan Blatti (Oxford) hired by University of Memphis. AOS: Metaphysics; philosophy of mind.

  9. Justin Fisher (Arizona) hired by Southern Methodist University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/CogSci/Language

  10. Samir Haddad (Northwestern) hired by Fordham University. AOS: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy. Previously post-doc at Fordham.

  11. Mason Marshall (Vanderbilt) hired by Pepperdine University. AOS: Ancient, Plato.

    Robert Sharp (Vanderbilt) hired by Muskingum College. AOS: Ethics

  12. Daniel Breyer (Fordham) hired by Illinois State University. AOS: Epistemology, Moral Philosophy.

  13. Stephen Grimm (Notre Dame) hired by Fordham University. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Value Theory. Previously tenure-track at University of Montana.

  14. Catherine Sutton (Virginia) hired by Virginia Commonwealth University. AOS: Metaphysics

  15. Elizabeth Fenton (Virginia) two-year post-doc at Harvard University (Program in Ethics and Health). AOS: Ethics and Bioethics

  16. John Whipple (UC, Irvine) hired by University of Illinois at Chicago. AOS: Early Modern

  17. Jonathan Jacobs (Indiana) hired by Saint Louis University. AOS: Metaphysics. Previously tenure-track at University of St. Thomas.

  18. Nathaniel Goldberg (Georgetown) hired by Washington and Lee University. AOS: Epistemology, Early Modern, Philosophy of Language. Previously tenure-track at Ohio University.

    Florentien Verhage (McGill) hired by Washington and Lee University. AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind.

  19. Bharath Vallabha (Harvard) hired by Byrn Mawr College. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action.

  20. Jane Dryden (Fordham) hired by Mount Allison University. AOS: German Idealism, Feminist philosophy.

  21. Anne Ozar (Fordham) hired by Creighton University. AOS: Phenomenology.

  22. Chloe Taylor (Toronto) hired by the University of North Florida. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Race and Gender. Previously post-doc at McGill.

  23. Glen Pettigrove (UC, Riverside) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

    Matheson Russell (New South Wales) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Phenomenology, Critical Theory

    Patrick Girard (Stanford) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Logic

  24. Esa Diaz-Leon (Sheffield) hired by University of Manitoba. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

  25. Andrew Spear (SUNY Buffalo) hired by Grand Valley State University. AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics/Ontology.

    Dwayne Tunstall (SIU Carbondale) hired by Grand Valley State University. AOS: Continental Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion.

  26. Scott Senn (UMass Amherst) hired by Longwood University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics. Previously tenure-track at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

  27. Gregory Velazco y Trianosky

    Robert Gressis (University of Michigan) hired by California State University, Northridge. AOS: Kant, Philosophy of Religion. Previously Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame.

  28. Paul Symington (SUNY Buffalo) hired by Franciscan University of Steubenville. AOS: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics. Previously Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco (term position).

  29. Matthew Lockard (UCLA) hired by Southern Methodist University, AOS: Epistemology

  30. Douglas Young (Cornell University) hired by Lycoming College. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. Previously Bowdoin College (06-07) and Davidson College (07-08).

  31. Justin Jeffrey (UNC Chapel Hill) hired by University of Idaho. AOS: Metaethics, Ethics, Applied Ethics. Previously Duke University (one year visiting professor).

  32. Kate Moran (University of Pennsylvania) hired by Brandeis University. AOS: Kant, Moral/Political.

  33. Eiho Baba (University of Hawaii, Manoa) hired by Furman University. AOS: Chinese Philosophy

  34. Matt MacKenzie (University of Hawaii, Manoa) hired by Colorado State University. AOS: Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind. Previously at Muhlenberg College.

  35. Justin McBrayer

    Justin McBrayer (University of Missouri, Columbia) hired by Fort Lewis College. AOS: Metaphysics/Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion.

  36. Avram Hiller (Duke) hired by Portland State University. AOS: M&E, Philosophy of Language, Ethics (esp. environmental). Previously Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University.

    Hagop Sarkissian (Duke) hired by Baruch College, CUNY. AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Chinese philosophy.

  37. Jonathan Weinberg

    Joshua Alexander (Indiana) hired by Siena College. AOS: Epistemology

  38. Joseph Hwang (UCLA) hired by California State University, Chico. AOS: Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant.

  39. Tamler Sommers (Duke) hired by University of Houston. AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Free Will. Previously Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris.

  40. Sergio Tenenbaum

    Kirstin Borgerson (Toronto) hired by Dalhousie University. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Bioethics.

    Danielle Bromwich (Toronto) Post-Doc at NIH. AOS: Ethics

    Sari Kisilevsky (Toronto) Post-Doc in Law and Philosophy at UCLA. AOS: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy.

    Kara Richardson (Toronto) hired by Syracuse University. AOS: Early Modern, Medieval.

    Tim Stock (Toronto) hired by University of Salisbury. AOS: 19th and 20th Century Continental.

    Chloe Taylor (Toronto) hired by University of North Florida. AOS: 20th Century Continental, Social and Political Philosophy. Previously SSHRC Post-Doc at McGill University.

  41. Louis-Philippe Hodgson

    Christopher Campbell (Pittsburgh) hired by Glendon College, York University. AOS: Philosophy of Logic and Language, History of Analytic Philosophy.

  42. Julian Cole (Ohio State) hired by Buffalo State. AOS: Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic. Previously Assistant Professor at University of Texas-Pan American

  43. David Baker (Princeton) hired by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. AOS: Philosophy of Physics. Also had tenure-track offers from NYU and University of Wisconsin.

  44. Sergio Tenenbaum

    Joe Millum (Toronto) hired on a joint Faculty appointment as a bioethicist with the Fogarty International Center and the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. AOS: Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics. Previously on a Post-Doc at the NIH.

    Margaret Cameron (Toronto) hired by University of Victoria as the Canada Research Council Chair Candidate in the Aristotelian Tradition. AOS: Medieval Philosophy. Previously Assistant Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York (tenure-track) and a Research Fellow at Cambridge University.

  45. Douglas Parvin (Rutgers) hired by Augustana College. AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind.

  46. Marcus Rossberg (St. Andrews) hired by the University of Connecticut. AOS: Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics.

  47. Bart Moffatt (Minnesota) hired by Mississippi State University. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science.
    Alicia Hall (Minnesota) hired by California State University, Fresno. AOS: Ethics.

  48. Tristram McPherson (Princeton) hired by University of Minnesota Duluth. AOS: Ethical Theory

  49. Jeremiah Hackett

    Michael Stoltzner (Bielefeld, Germany) hired by the University of South Carolina, AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Physics. Previously Visiting Professor, University of Wuppertal, Germany

  50. Paisley Livingston

    Zizi Zhang (California Institute of Technology) hired by Lingnan University, Hong Kong. AOS: Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science.

    Rafael De Clercq (Catholic University of Leuven) hired by Lingnan University, Hong Kong. AOS: Aesthetics, metaphysics.

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