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Tenure-track and post-doc hiring of Philosophy PhDs, 2013-14

MOVING TO FRONT FOR THE LAST TIME THIS SEASON–ORIGINALLY POSTED FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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 2014 (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. Four 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, 2013-14”

  1. Eric Hagedorn (Notre Dame) hired by St. Norbert College (De Pere, WI). AOS: Medieval Philosophy. Formerly a Teaching Fellow at St. Norbert College.

  2. Heidi Savage (University of Maryland) hired by SUNY Geneseo. AOS: Philosophy of Language/Metaphysics. Formerly a Visiting Professor at SUNY Geneseo.

  3. Tobey Scharding (Stanford) hired by Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. AOS: business ethics. Previously Assistant Professor at High Point University.

  4. Kevin Connolly (University of Toronto) Mellon Post-Doc at the University of Pennsylvania. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. Currently a post-doc with the Network for Sensory Research, and also a Lecturer in Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College.

  5. Rachel McKinnon (University of Waterloo) hired by College of Charleston. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language. Previously SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary.

  6. Corey Maley (Princeton) hired by The University of Kansas. AOS: Moral Psychology

  7. Kristina Gehrman (UCLA) hired by University of Tennessee. AOS: Moral Philosophy, Action Theory. Previously Assistant Professor at Miami University (Ohio).

  8. Ericka Tucker (Emory) Hired by Marquette University. AOS: Early Modern. Previously Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pamona.

  9. Irina Meketa (Boston University) McDonnell Post-Doc at Washington University in St. Louis. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Biology. Previously Full-time Lecturer at Boston University.

  10. Bradley Rettler (Notre Dame) 3-year postdoc at Baylor University. AOS: Metaphysics.

  11. Anna Mahtani (Sheffield) hired by London School of Economics and Political Science. AOS: Philosophy of Logic and Language, Formal Epistemology. Previously British Academy Postdoctoral Research Officer at Oxford and Research Fellow at the LSE.

    Jonathan Birch (Cambridge) hired by London School of Economics and Political Science. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. Previously Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge.

  12. Krista Karbowski Thomason (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) hired by Swarthmore College. AOS: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Kant’s Moral Theory. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College.

    Aaron Harper (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) hired by West Liberty University. AOS: 19th Century Philosophy, Ethics. Previously Visiting Instructor at West Liberty University.

  13. Thomas Feeney (Yale University) hired by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. AOS: Early Modern.

  14. William MacAskill (Oxford), three-year Junior Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. AOS: Ethics.

  15. Elizabeth Miller (Harvard) hired by University of Birmingham. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science.

  16. Beckett Sterner (University of Chicago, Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science), three-year postdoc at University of Michigan Society of Fellows. Previously a postdoc at the Field Museum. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science.

  17. Christian Loew (UNC) Post-Doc at the University of Cologne. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science.

  18. Justin Khoo (Yale University) hired by MIT. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics. Previously a Post-Doc at MIT.

  19. Sam Baron (Sydney) hired by the University of Western Australia. Previously (and until 2015) a postdoc at the University of Sydney. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science.

  20. Meghan Dupree (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy) hired by Loyola University Maryland. One year postdoc at Baylor University (2014-15). AOS: History and Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics.

  21. Charles H. Pence (University of Notre Dame) hired by Louisiana State University. AOS: Philosophy and History of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Digital Humanities.

  22. Jeremy Wyatt (UCONN) 2 year postdoc as part of the Global Research Network on Pluralisms (logic, truth and ontology) at Yonsei University, South Korea. AOS: truth theory.

  23. Michael Rosenthal

    Conor Mayo-Wilson (Carnegie Mellon University) hired by the University of Washington, Seattle. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic. Previously Assistant Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.

  24. Dean Chapman (NYU) hired by the University of Cape Town. AOS: Epistemology.

    Hyunseop Kim (NYU) hired by Seoul National University. Previously a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. AOS: Ethics, political philosophy.

  25. Jacob Berger (CUNY Graduate Center) hired by Idaho State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science. Previously a postdoc at the University of Antwerp.

  26. Daniel Harris (CUNY Graduate Center) hired by Hunter College. AOS: Philosophy of Language and History of Analytic Philosophy.

  27. s-goldberg@northwestern.edu

    Debbie Goldgaber (Northwestern) hired by LSU. AOS Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy.

  28. Chelsea Haramia (University of Colorado, Boulder) hired by Spring Hill College. AOS: Applied Ethics.

  29. Stephen Nayak-Young

    Stephen Nayak-Young (Michigan) Law and Philosophy Postdoc at UCLA. AOS: Philosophy of Law, Moral and Political Philosophy.

  30. Ashley Graham Kennedy (University of Virginia) hired by the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. AOS: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Medicine. Previously a post-doc at the University of South Carolina.

  31. Justin Horn (University of Wisconsin-Madison) hired by Oklahoma State University. AOS: Ethics.

  32. Holly Kantin (University of Wisconsin, Madison), 2 year postdoc at the National Institutes of Health. AOS: Bioethics

  33. Lucy Schultz (University of Oregon) hired by Midwestern State University. AOS: Comparative Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Aesthetics.

  34. Rebecca Tuvel (Vanderbilt) hired by Rhodes College. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy.

  35. Trenton Merricks

    Evan Keeling (University of Virginia) hired by the University of São Paulo. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. Previously a post-doc at the University of São Paulo.

  36. Ashley Dressel

    Ashley Dressel (UC Irvine) hired by the College of St. Scholastica. AOS: History of Ethics, Medieval.

  37. Stephanie Rivera Berruz (University at Buffalo, SUNY) hired by William Paterson University of New Jersey. AOS: Latin American Philosophy and Social Political Philosophy.

  38. Kelly McCormick (Syracuse) hired by Texas Christian University. AOS: Ethics. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington & Jefferson College.

  39. Karin Nisenbaum

    Karin Nisenbaum (University of Toronto) Mandel Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University. Currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Denver, and also a Lecturer in Philosophy at Colorado College. AOS: Kant & German Idealism; 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy; Modern Jewish Thought.

  40. Alexus McLeod (University of Connecticut) hired by Colorado State University. AOS: Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, Comparative Philosophy. Previously Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton.

  41. Jonathan Schaffer

    Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers) hired by University of Pennsylvania. Also postdoc at NYU (Bersoff Fellowship) for 2014-15. AOS: Epistemology, Mind.

  42. Simon van Rysewyk

    Simon van Rysewyk (University of Tasmania) a Taiwan National Science Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. AOS: Pain, Mind, Consciousness.

  43. Amy Reed-Sandoval (University of Washington) hired by the University of Texas, El Paso. AOS: Latin American Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy for Children.

  44. Russ Shafer-Landau

    Anat Schechtman (Yale) hired by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy; previously Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
    Farid Masrour (Arizona) hired by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science; previous post-docs at Harvard University and NYU.

  45. Matt Carlson (Indiana University) hired by Wabash College. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic. Previously a Visiting Lecturer at the University of New Mexico.

  46. Mor Segev (Princeton University) hired by the University of South Florida. AOS: Ancient Philosophy.

  47. Theron Pummer (UCSD), Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Metaphysics.

  48. Kwok Tung Cheung

    Kwok Tung Cheung (Indiana University) hired by University of Dayton. AOS: Business ethics, epistemology. Previously a lecturer at University of Dayton.

  49. Kenneth L. Pearce (USC), post-doc at Valparaiso University. AOS: early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion.

  50. Macalester Bell (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill), hired by Franklin & Marshall College. Ethics, moral psychology, social/political philosophy.

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