Job market success

June 1, 2024

2023-2024 was a bumper year for Department of Philosophy graduate students on the academic job market.  In the face of a highly competitive market, the Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the following seven grads received academic placements this year:

  • Haley Brennan has received a New York University Bersoff Fellowship. Brennan works on Kantian, Early Modern, and Post-Kantian philosophy with other research interests in contemporary philosophy of mind and ethics.
  • Claudia Dumitru has accepted a tenure track position at Yale. Dumitru’s research is mainly focused on early modern philosophy. She’s also interested in political philosophy, philosophy of science and ancient philosophy.
  • Samuel Fullhart will be a post-doctoral associate at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Fullhart works primarily in the areas of ethics, the philosophy of action, and the theory of rationality, particularly where those topics overlap.
  • Alice van’t Hoff has accepted a tenure track position at Texas A&M. Van’t Hoff works mainly in the areas of metaphysics and social philosophy, with a particular focus on ontological questions.  
  • Thomas Lambert was appointed to a tenure track position at Pitzer College. Lambert’s interests lie at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of action.
  • Margaret Shea accepted a tenure track position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Shea mainly works in the area of moral philosophy, although she is also interested aesthetics, particularly philosophy of literature. 
  • Christen Zimecki was appointed to a tenure track position at Wayne State. Zimecki specializes in ancient Greek and Roman moral psychology and political thought.

Congratulations to all!