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Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2008-2009

MOVING TO FRONT FOR THE LAST TIME THIS HIRING SEASON (ORIGINALLY POSTED FEBRUARY 2)

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 2009 (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 Continental 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.

ADDENDUM (2/26):  Some readers have expressed concern at the relative dearth of postings on this thread.  Obviously this is a bad year on the job market, though I should mention that I know of at least a half-dozen jobs that have been accepted that have not yet appeared here.   I imagine some of them will before long.   ANOTHER (3/3):   Another reader points out that as of March 1, the total number of postings to this thread wasn't much different than at this time last year.

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50 responses to “Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2008-2009”

  1. Shane J. Ralston

    Shane J. Ralston (Ottawa) hired by Pennsylvania State University-Hazleton. AOS: American Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Maine-Orono and Postdoc at Center for Research on Ethics-Universite de Montreal.

  2. Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania) post-doc at Joseph L. Rotman Institute of Science and Values, University of Western Ontario. AOS: Social and political philosophy, philosophy of science.

  3. Jeroen van Bouwel

    Maarten Van Dyck hired by Ghent University (Belgium). AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics
    and Natural Philosophy. Previously Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation –
    Flanders.

  4. Thomas Nadelhoffer (FSU) will be a MacArthur Post-Doc Fellow in Neuroscience and Law next year at UCSB's SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. AOS: Action Theory, Moral Psychology, and the Philosophy of Law. Currently a tenure track assistant professor at Dickinson College.

  5. Carlos Montemayor (Rutgers) hired by San Francisco State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, and Metaphysics.

  6. Alexus McLeod (University of Connecticut) hired by University of Dayton. AOS: Chinese Philosophy, Ethics.

  7. Steven French (Head of Dept., Leeds)

    Heather Logue (MIT) hired by University of Leeds, UK. AOS: epistemology, philosophy of mind.

  8. Clayton Littlejohn

    Clayton Littlejohn (Nebraska) hired by University of Texas at San Antonio. AOS: Epistemology and Ethical Theory. Previously Lecturer at Southern Methodist University.

  9. Meghan Masto (UMass) hired by Lafayette College. AOS: epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind.

    Dan Doviak (UMass) hired by Muhlenberg College. AOS: Ethics.

  10. Giovanni Valente (University of Maryland, College Park) hired by University of Pittsburgh. AOS: Philosophy of Physics. Start date 2010. Until then: postdocs at UC Irvine and in Paris.

  11. Simon Rippon (Harvard), hired by the
    Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford and the Program in
    Ethics and Health at Harvard, 4-year postdoctoral fellowship.

  12. John Manchak (UC Irvine) hired by the University of Washingto in Seattle. AOS: philosophy of physics.

    Kevin Zollman (UC Irvine) hired by Carnegie Mellon University. AOS: evolutionary game theory and philosophy of science. Previously post-doc at CMU.

  13. Peter A. Gildenhuys (Pitt, Department of History and Philosophy of Science) hired by Lafayette College. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science

  14. David Liebesman (Cornell) hired by Boston University. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics.

  15. Patrick McGivern (Alberta) hired as Lecturer (tt equivalent) by the University of Wollongong, Australia. AOS: Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind. Previously sessional at Alberta.

  16. Peter Langland-Hassan (CUNY) post-doc at Washington University, St. Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) program. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science.

  17. Kate Withy (Chicago) hired by Georgetown University, AOS: Heidegger, 20th c German and French philosophy

  18. Kelly Trogdon (UMass) hired by Lingnan University, Hong Kong. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics.

  19. Kristoffer Ahlstrom (UMass): Wenner-Gren Foundation postdoc for 2009-10 to be held at Rutgers; Research Fellowship for 2010-2012 to be held at University of Copenhagen. AOS: epistemology

  20. Kendy Hess (Univ of Colorado at Boulder, JD Harvard) hired by the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA to be the Brake-Smith Assistant Professor of Social Philosophy and Ethics.

  21. Leanne Kent (Bowling Green State University) hired by St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI. AOS: virtue ethics.

  22. Stefan Sciaraffa (Arizona) hired by McMaster University. AOS: Philosophy of Law, Social and Political, Moral Philosophy. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University.

  23. James T. Bednar (Vanderbilt) hired by Wofford College. AOS: Epistemology, Early Modern.

  24. Syd M Johnson (SUNY Albany) 2 year postdoc fellowship at Novel Tech Ethics / Dalhousie University. AOS: bioethics, ethics. Previously adjunct lecturer at SUNY New Paltz.

  25. Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh, HPS) hired by Simon Fraser University. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology/Metaphysics

  26. Lauren Hartzell (Stanford) hired by the University of Cincinnati, start deferred to Sept. 2011; until then, postdoctoral research associate at the Program on Values in Society, University of Washington. AOS: Environmental Philosophy.

  27. Dan Weiskopf (Washington University St. Louis PNP) hired by Georgia State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cog Sci, Philosophy of Language. Previously Assistant Professor at University of South Florida.

  28. Jesse Alama (Stanford): post-doc in the Dialogical Foundations of Semantics project, Lisbon, Portugal. AOS: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics.

  29. Bryce Huebner (UNC) hired by Georgetown University. AOS: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology. Previously at Tufts Center for Cognitive Studies and Harvard Cognitive Evolution Laboratory.

  30. David Landy (UNC) hired by San Francisco State University. AOS: History of Modern Philosophy.

  31. Pia Antolic-Piper

    Pia Antolic-Piper (Goethe-University) hired by Western Kentucky University. AOS: Medieval Philosophy. Previously Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, St. Louis University.

  32. Vanessa Carbonell (Michigan) hired by University of Cincinnati. AOS: Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology.

  33. Joshue Orozco (Rutgers) hired by Whitworth University. AOS: Epistemology.

  34. Andrew Roche (Harvard) hired by Centre College. AOS: Kant's theoretical philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind.

  35. David Finkelstein

    Daniel Groll (University of Chicago) hired by Carleton College. AOS: Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Biomedical Ethics, Social/Political Philosophy.

  36. David Finkelstein

    Katherine Withy (University of Chicago) hired by Georgetown University. AOS: Heidegger, History of 20th Century German and French Philosophy.

  37. Christopher Yeomans (University of California, Riverside) hired by Purdue University. AOS: 18th and 19th Century European Philosophy, Philosophy of Action. Previously Assistant Professor at Kenyon College.

  38. Eugene Marshall

    Eugene Marshall (University of Wisconsin, Madison) hired by Wellesley College. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy. Previously visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College.

  39. Christopher Menzel

    Robert Garcia (University of Notre Dame) hired by Texas A&M University. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

  40. Dustin Locke (Michigan) hired by Claremont McKenna College. AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics.

  41. Ahmed Alwishah (UCLA) hired by Pitzer College. AOS: Arabic and Medieval Philosophy. Previously Postdoctoral Fellow in the IHUM Program at Stanford University.

  42. Saba Bazargan (Rutgers) hired by University of California, San Diego. AOS: Normative Ethics, Practical Ethics.

  43. Leigh M. Johnson

    Kyle Grady (Penn State University) hired by Rhodes College. AOS: Kant, Metaphysics.

  44. Aaron Bronfman (Michigan) hired by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. AOS: Ethics, Epistemology.

  45. Trent Dougherty (University of Rochester) hired by Baylor University. AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics.

  46. Margaret Cameron

    Michael Raven (NYU) hired by the University of Victoria. AOS: Metaphysics.

  47. Andrew Blom (University of Illinois at Chicago) hired by Central Michigan University. AOS: Ethics and Political Philosophy (and history thereof).

  48. Andrew Sepielli (Rutgers) hired by the University of Toronto. AOS: Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Law.

  49. Clinton Tolley

    Lisa Damm (University of California, San Diego) post-doc at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science (especially emotion and reason), Moral Psychology.

  50. Clinton Tolley

    Matthew Brown (University of California, San Diego) hired by the University of Texas at Dallas. AOS: Philosophy of Science, American Pragmatism.

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