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Tenure-track and post-doc hiring of philosophy PhDs, 2012-13

MOVING TO FRONT ONE MORE TIME, SINCE THERE WERE SOME LATE HIRES REPORTED SINCE MAY 19–ORIGINALLY POSTED FEBRUARY 15, 2013 (Please note the spam filter mysteriously ate several postings, which I've now restored.  Because I am on the road, please wait at least 72 hours after posting before contacting me about missing information.  I will continue to check the spam filter regularly.)

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 or of philosophy PhDs, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in summer or fall 2013 (or thereafter). (For schools outside the US, please list new Lecturers who are on presumptively permanent appointments–not temporary lecturers.) As in prior years, 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. (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 a fictional example:

Jane M. Jones (Rutgers) hired by University of California, Santa Barbara. AOS: Philosophy of Language.  Previously a post-doc at Yale.  

"Hired by" means a tenure-track or permanent position; a post-doc should be listed as "John Smith (Harvard) post-doc at University of Michigan."

Remember: tenure-track jobs and postdocs only. Please submit information only once; postings should appear within 24 hours.

THE ONLY PERSONS ELIGIBLE TO POST INFORMATION ARE: the candidates themselves; the chair of the hiring department; or the placement chair of the candidate's department. Three years ago, however, a placement chair jumped the gun in posting, so please, placement chairs, make sure it is OK with your students that the information appear!

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50 responses to “Tenure-track and post-doc hiring of philosophy PhDs, 2012-13”

  1. John Schwenkler (U.C. Berkeley) hired by Florida State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Action, Epistemology, Cognitive Science. Previously an assistant professor at Mount St. Mary's University.

  2. Sam Cowling (UMass, Amherst) hired by Denison University. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University.

  3. Tomas Bogardus (University of Texas at Austin) hired by Pepperdine University. AOS: Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind. Previous Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN).

  4. Nicole Vincent (University of Adelaide) hired by Georgia State University as an Associate Professor, tenure-track. AOS: Neurolaw. Previously a research fellow at Macquarie University (Australia) and Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands).

  5. Kevin McCain (University of Rochester) hired by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. AOS: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

  6. David Miguel Gray

    David Miguel Gray (Harvard University) hired by Colgate University. AOS: Philosophy of Psychology and Mind, Philosophy of Race and Racism. Previously Mellon Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.

  7. Brendan Shea (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) hired by Rochester Community and Technical College. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Winona State University.

  8. Yashar Saghai (Georgetown University) post-doc at the Berman Institute of Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University). AOS: Normative and Applied Ethics, Political and Social Philosophy.

  9. Wesley Buckwalter (CUNY) post-doc at the University of Waterloo. AOS: Epistemology and Cognitive Science.

  10. Reid Blackman (UT Austin) hired by Colgate University. AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Nietzsche. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

  11. Emanuel Viebahn (Oxford), post-doc at Humboldt University Berlin (6 year post as wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter). AOS: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics.

  12. Bryan Roberts (University of Pittsburgh) hired by London School of Economics and Political Science. AOS: History and Philosophy of Physics. AOC: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics, Bioethics. Currently on a postdoc in University of Southern California.

  13. Adrienne Prettyman

    Adrienne Prettyman (University of Toronto) hired by Bryn Mawr College. AOS: Philosophy of Mind.

  14. Carlotta Pavese (Rutgers) hired by Duke University. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind.

  15. James Sias (University of North Carolina) hired by
    Dickinson College. AOS: Ethics

  16. Serife Tekin (York, Canada) hired by Daemen College, NY. AOS: Philosophy of Psychiatry, Neuroethics. Currently a postdoc at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

  17. Joshua Wilburn (Princeton) hired by Wayne State University, Detroit MI. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. Previously Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria.

  18. Julia Staffel (University of Southern California) hired by Washington University, St. Louis (starting Jan 2014). Post-doc at Australian National University during fall semester of 2013. AOS: Epistemology, Formal Epistemology.

  19. Daniel Silvermint (University of Arizona) hired by University of Connecticut. AOS: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy. Previously GRIPP/RGCS postdoc at McGill University (Autonomy and Oppression project).

  20. Sarah Jansen (UCLA) hired by Carleton College. AOS: Ancient Greek Philosophy. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Carleton College.

  21. Katharine Schweitzer

    Katharine Schweitzer (Emory University) hired by the University of Nevada, Reno. AOS: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethics.

  22. Ben Burgis (University of Miami), post-doc at Underwood International College at Yonsei University in Seoul. AOS: Philosophy of Logic

  23. Blake Roeber (Rutgers) hired by the University of Notre Dame. AOS: Epistemology (traditional, formal, and social).

  24. Yi Deng (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) hired by the University of North Georgia. AOS: Political and Social Philosophy; Ethics; Chinese Philosophy.

  25. Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen

    Ben Burgis (University of Miami), post-doc at Underwood International College, Yonsei University. AOS: Philosophy of Logic.

    Manuel Cabrera (University of California, Los Angeles), post-doc at Underwood International College, Yonsei University. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action. Previously Instructor at Auburn University.

    Colin Caret (University of Connecticut) hired by Underwood International College, Yonsei University. AOS: Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science.

    Timothy Fuller (Ohio State University) hired by Underwood International College, Yonsei University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science/Psychology.

  26. Helen Yetter-Chappell (Princeton) hired by Bowling Green State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. Previously Bersoff Fellow; Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Philosophy at NYU.

  27. Kelly Trogdon (UMass, Amherst) hired by Virginia Tech. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics. Previously Assistant Professor at Lingnan University.

  28. Andrew Platt (UMass, Amherst) hired by SUNY Stony Brook. AOS: History of Early Modern. Previously Instructor at Central Michigan University.

  29. William Mark Goodwin (Berkeley) hired by University of South Florida. AOS: Philosophy of Science. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at University of South Florida.

  30. Heather Demarest (Rutgers) hired by the University of Oklahoma. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Physics.

  31. Zachary Miller (Rutgers) hired by the University of Oklahoma. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, and Formal Semantics.

  32. Will Small (University of Chicago) hired by the University of Illinois at Chicago (starting Aug 2014). AOS: Philosophy of Action, Ethics. Currently a post-doc at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo.

  33. Lauren Freeman

    Lauren Freeman (Boston University) hired by the University of Louisville. AOS: Phenomenology, Ethics, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy. Previously Assistant Professor (Limited Term) at Concordia University (Montreal) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Duquesne University.

  34. Brannon McDaniel

    Brannon McDaniel (Virginia) hired by the University of Richmond. AOS: Metaphysics. Previously Visiting Lecturer at the University of Richmond.

  35. Trenton Merricks

    Stewart Braun (University of Virginia) hired by Australian Catholic University. AOS: Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics.

  36. Carrie Swanson (Rutgers) hired by the University of Iowa, Iowa City. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. Previously Ruth Norman Halls Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington.

  37. Jennifer Wang (Rutgers) hired by the University of Georgia. AOS: Metaphysics.

  38. Universita' di Udine

    Marilena Di Bucchianico (LSE) hired by University of Udine (Italy). AOS: Philosophy of Experimentation, Neuroscience and Spirituality; previously postdoc-lecturer at San Francisco State University.

  39. James Dow (CUNY Graduate Center) hired by Hendrix College. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Hendrix College. AOS: Philosophy of Mind

  40. Julia von Bodelschwingh (Yale University) hired by Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. AOS: History of Modern Philosophy.

  41. Ole Koksvik (ANU), 4 year post-doc at University of Bergen. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. Previously post-doc at the ANU.

  42. Alex Morgan (Rutgers) post-doc at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen. AOS: Philosophy of Science (Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology) and Philosophy of Mind.

  43. Daniel Moseley

    Daniel Moseley (University of Virginia), post-doc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. AOS: Moral Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Bioethics, and Social/Political. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at UNC-CH.

  44. Leandro De Brasi

    Leandro De Brasi (King´s College London) hired by Universidad Alberto Hurtado. AOS: Epistemology.

  45. Rachael Briggs

    Brian Rabern (ANU) hired by the University of Edinburgh. AOS: Philosophy of Language and Philosophical Logic. Previously visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois.

    Holly Lawford-Smith, hired by the University of Sheffield. AOS: Political Philosophy & Ethics.

    Jens Christian Bjerring (ANU), hired by Aarhus University. AOS: Epistemology and Philosophical Logic. Previously a Scientific Assistant at Aarhus University.

  46. Jonathan Cottrell (New York University) hired by Wayne State University, Detroit MI. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy.

  47. Kaija Mortensen

    Kaija Mortensen (University of California, Santa Cruz) hired by Randolph College. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College and Teaching Fellow at St. Norbert College. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphilosophy

  48. Corwin Aragon (University of Colorado at Boulder) hired by Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Race; previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Dickinson College.

  49. Barry Maguire (Princeton) postdoc at NYU (Bersoff Faculty Fellow / Assistant Professor). AOS: Ethics, Metaethics.

  50. Alexandra Newton (University of Pittsburgh) hired by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AOS: Kant, History of Modern Philosophy; previously Assistant Professor at Universität Leipzig.

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