DePaul's PhD program in philosophy has an exceptional placement record. During the last decade we have placed students in such institutions as St. Edwards University, University of Scranton, Chicago State University, Earlham College, Grinnell College, the Rhetoric Program at Berkeley, Xavier University in New Orleans, The American University in Cairo, Lewis University, Columbia College and The University of Memphis, Duquesne University and Laurentian University, University of San Diego, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Alumni
This section lists recent PhD alumni, the title of their dissertation and their place of current academic appointment, if known.
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| 2025 | Bryan Maddox | North Michigan University | "Psychic Life: The Freud-Bergson Convergence" | Elizabeth Rottenberg |
| 2024 | Joel Bock | Old Dominion University | "Work and Leisure in the Digital Age: Aristotle, Hegel, and Stiegler" | Peg Birmingham |
| 2024 | Gregory Convertito | University of North Carolina | "From the Forms of Appearance to Distributions of the Sensible: Marx, Ranciere, and the Sensuous Presentation of a Social Formation" | Richard A. Lee |
| 2024 | Maria Londono | Sciences Po (Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship) | "A 'Bastard Type of Reasoning': Philosophizing Architecture and Spatializing Thought" | Fanny Söderbäck |
| 2024 | Sara Simms | Loyola University, Marymount | "Through Winter into Spring Irigaray, Franciscan Theology, and the Longing for Transcendence" | Fanny Söderbäck & Richard A. Lee |
| 2023 | Jessica Jessen | Independent Scholar | "Nietzsche's Ariadne: A New Perspective on the Eternal Recurrence" | Will McNeill |
| 2023 | Julian Rios Acuña | Grinnell College | "Genealogy, Colonialism, Violence: Confronting Metaphysical Thinking Between and Beyond Santiago Castro-Gómez and Michel Foucault" | Peg Birmingham & Elizabeth Millán Brusslan |
| 2023 | Paula Landerreche Cardillo | University of North Carolina, Charlotte | "Her Organs Were A Question Of the State: Reading Adriana Cavarero From the Latin American Post-Colony" | Fanny Söderbäck |
| 2023 | Dan Perlman | Loyola University Chicago (adjunct) | "Foucault's Brain: Discourse, Matter, and the Possibility of a Plastic Genealogy" | Peter Steeves & Kevin Thompson |
| 2023 | Jacob Singer | Independent Scholar | "Hegel's critique of skepticism: concept, judgment, and syllogism" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2022 | Cameron Coates | The University of the South (Sewanee) | "Aristotle on the Concept of Life" | Sean Kirkland |
| 2022 | Mustafa (Kemal) Isik | Independent Scholar | "Eleusis contra Delphi: The Idea of Eternal Return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek Mystery Cults" | Sean Kirkland & Will McNeill |
| 2022 | Eric Aldieri | Bridgewater State University | "Loving without Memory: Immanent Soteriology from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2022 | Rachel Silverbloom | Vassar College | "Nonlinearity as Care: Black, Feminist, and Queer Temporalities of History" | Fanny Söderbäck |
| 2022 | Ryan Froese | University of Louisville | "Modality and Method in Hegel's Logic" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2022 | Evan Edwards | Grand Valley State University | "Autotrophy of the Other: On Food and Hospitality" | H. Peter Steeves |
| 2022 | Thomas Krell | Independent Scholar | "The Threat of Nihilism and the Prospect of non-Nihilistic Metaphysics in Jacobi and Hegel" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2022 | Owen Glyn-Williams | Independent Scholar | "Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2022 | Michael Peterson | Missouri University of Science and Technology | "Half-Lives of Responsibility: Gramsci, Derrida, and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics" | Michael Naas |
| 2022 | Vilde Lid Aavitsland | University of Louisville | “Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault’s Thought” | Kevin Thompson |
| 2021 | Paul Turner | Humanities Librarian, Haverford College | “The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi” | Will McNeill |
| 2021 | David Maruzzella | Independent Scholar | “Studies on Science and Ideology in Contemporary French Philosophy” | Michael Naas (Co-Director); Elizabeth Rottenberg (Co-Director) |
| 2021 | Bradley Ramos | Independent Scholar | “The Problem of Sexuality: Philosophy’s Weak Spot and the Inconsistent Nature of Nature" | Elizabeth Rottenberg |
| 2021 | Jeta Mulaj | Grinnell College (Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow, 2021-2022) Ryerson University | “Reclaiming Stability: The Dialectic of Stability and Instability in Capitalist Society” | Peg Birmingham |
2020 | Zhen Liang | Sweet Briar College | “On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems” | H. Peter Steeves |
2020 | Jonathan D. Singer | DePaul University | "Sharing 'the Flesh of the World': Alterity, Animality, and Radical Community in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy" | H.Peter Steeves |
| 2020 | Amelia Hruby | Author, Academic Software Designer | "Towards Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Provocations to German Idealist Aesthetics" | Maria Acosta |
| 2019 | Khafiz Kerimov | St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland | Prudence and Providence in Kant | Avery Goldman, Sean Kirkland |
| 2019 | Daniel Pepe | Loyola University | "The Fate of Universal History: On the Task of Philosophy of History between Kant and Benjamin" | Richard A. Lee |
| 2019 | Gilbert Morejon | Independent Scholar | Obscurity and Involvement, On the Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume | Peg Birmingham |
| 2019 | Daniel Rosiak | National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, The National Institute of Standards and Technology | "Towards a Classification of Continuity and on the Emergence of Generality" | Richard A. Lee |
| 2019 | Gucsal Pusar | Independent Scholar | "Critique and Indifference: Kant on the Human Need for Metaphysics" | Will McNeill |
| 2019 | Miguel Gualdron | University of Oregon | "Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Edouard Glissant's Early Thought" | Maria Acosta |
| 2018 | Kieran Aarons | University of Detroit Mercy | "The Political Logic of Destituent Power: Time, Subjectivity, and Revolutionary Violence" | Kevin Thompson, Peg Birmingham |
| 2018 | Neal Miller | Independent Scholar | "Critique and Neoliberalism in Michel Foucault" | Peg Birmingham |
| 2018 | Amanda Parris | University of San Francisco | "The Logic of Imagination: A Spinozan Critique of Imaginative Freedom" | Richard A. Lee |
| 2017 | Kristina Lebedeva | Independent Scholar | "In the Presence of Suffering: Toward a New Understanding of Evil" | H. Peter Steeves |
| 2017 | Ege Selin Islekel | Texas A&M | "Monstrous Visions: Mechanisms of Defense and Regimes of Visibility" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2017 | Thomas Floyd Wright | Freelance Software Engineer | "The Perversion of the Absolute: Religion and Representation in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit" | Kevin Thompson |
| 2016 | Ian Alexander Moore | Loyola Marymount University |
Being and Method in Eckhart and Heidegger | Will McNeill Richard A. Lee |
| 2016 | Christopher Turner | California State University, Stanislaus | Aristotle and the Cynics on Happiness and Misfortune | Sean D. Kirkland |
| 2016 | Karolin Mirzakhan | Kennesaw State University |
Humor and the Absolute: Comedy and Irony in the Philosophical Project of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schlegel | Elizabeth Millán |
| 2016 | Ashley Bohrer | University of Notre Dame |
The Janus-Face of Capitalist Labor: Gender, Race, and Work in the Early Modernity | Richard A. Lee |
| 2016 | Ben Frazer-Simser | North Central College |
A Discourse of the Non-Discursive: Plato and Pseudo-Dionysius | Sean D. Kirkland |
| 2015 | Don T. Deere | Texas A&M | The Invention of Order: Modern Spatial Concepts and the Emergence of the Americas |
Elizabeth Millán |
| 2015 | David Volfe | Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, Chicago, IL | Interpretation as Epieikeia: Aristotelian Ethics as a Paradigm for Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics | Will McNeill |
| 2015 | Sonya Ozbey | University of Michigan |
Discontinuities in Immanent Worlds: The Human - Nonhuman Animal Split in Spinoza and the Zhuangzi | Franklin Perkins Tina Chanter |
| 2015 | Rosalie Siemon | Founder, Michigan Support Circle |
Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing | Peg Birmingham |
| 2015 | Rohan Sikri | University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia | Therapeutic Methods in the Platonic Dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian 莊子内篇 | Michael Naas Franklin Perkins |
| 2015 | Imge Oranli | Arizona State University |
Reframing Theories of Evil: Ethics, Violence and the State | Tina Chanter |
| 2015 | Perry Zurn | American University |
Curiosity: Philosophy and the Politics of Difference | Kevin Thompson Michael Naas |
| 2015 | Marie Draz | San Diego State University, San Diego, CA | Transitional Subjects: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Temporality | Tina Chanter |
| 2014 | James Griffith | Middle Eastern Technical University |
"Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes" | Richard A. Lee |
| 2014 | Alicen Beheler | Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska | "Continuity, Constellation, and Unworking: An Exploration of Language in Nietzsche" | Tina Chanter Will McNeill |
| 2013 | Robin Weiss | American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt |
"The Stoics and the Practical: A Roman Reply to Aristotle." | Sean D. Kirkland |
| 2013 | Jana McAuliffe | University of Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas |
"Ethics and Affects: A Critique of Social Intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak." | Tina Chanter |
| 2013 | Joseph Weiss | Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina | "Mimetic Play and Critique in the Works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno." | Richard A. Lee |
| 2012 | Richard Elmore | Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina | "Critical Ecologies: Violence and Life in the Work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno." | Michael Naas Elizabeth Rottenberg |
| 2012 | Daw-Nay Evans | Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois | "Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy: Essays On Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, And Heraclitus." | Will McNeill |
| 2012 | Kristin McCartney | Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois | "Dissolute Pluralism: The Ethics of Queer Thought." | Darrell Moore |
| 2012 | Surti Singh | Villanova University | "The Problem of Experience in Adorno’s Philosophy and Aesthetics." | Richard A. Lee |
| 2012 | James Manos | Adler University, Chicago, Illinois | "A Critique of Political Self-Deception: Kant and Freud At The Edge of Political Theory." | Tina Chanter |
| 2012 | H. Rakes | Oregon State University |
"Becoming Identities: The Philosophical Subject, Intersectionality, and Assemblage." | Namita Goswami |
| 2011 | Dilek Huseyinzadegan | Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia | "Politics, History, Critique: An Interpretation of Kant’s Political Philosophy In Light Of His Critical-Regulative Method." | Avery Goldman |
| 2011 | Sina Kramer | Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California | "Constitutive Exclusion and the Work of Political Unintelligibility." | Kevin Thompson Tina Chanter |
| 2011 |
Cavin Robinson |
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York. |
"Social Contract Theory, African American Slave Narratives, and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Conceptions of Political Freedom." |
Jason Hill |
| 2010 | Andrew LaZella | University of Scranton, Pennsylvania | "Thomas Aquinas, the Real Distinction Between Esse and Essence, and Overcoming the Conceptual Imperialism of Metaphysics." | Richard A. Lee |
| 2010 | Jeremy Bell | Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia |
"The Ethics of Inquiry." | Michael Naas |
| 2010 | Stephanie Meinster | Unknown | Unknown | Patricia Werhane |
| 2009 | Holly Moore | Luther College, Decorah, Iowa |
"Plato's Analogical Thought." | Michael Naas |
| 2009 | Molly O'Donnell |
Freelance Editor, Writer |
"The Residence of Infinity in Finite Minds: The Role of Objective Reality in the Work of Descartes and Suarez." | Richard A. Lee |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Sikes | Seattle University, Seattle, Washington | “Intellectual Intuition after Kant: Katharsis and the Revolution of the Tragic in Friedrich Hölderlin.” | Will McNeill |
| 2009 | Kathleen League | Unknown | "Utopia in the Map of the World: Adorno, Radical Negativity, A Cultural Critique." | Peg Birmingham |
| 2008 | Samuel Talcott | St. Joseph's University |
“Anatomical Operations: The Modern Invention of the Living as Pathological, Or Contributions to a Genealogy of Michel Foucault’s Work.” | Darrell Moore |
| 2008 | Hernando Estevez | Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia |
"An Essential Transition in Latin American Nineteenth Century Political Thought." | Elizabeth Millán |
| 2007 | Julia Ireland |
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington | “The Poet as Destiny: The Inauguration of Heidegger’s Dialogue with Hölderlin.” | Will McNeill |
| 2007 | Wesley Swedlow | San Marin High School, California |
“Against the Personification of Democracy: Of the Causes, Generation, and Dissolution of the Person with Political Formations.” | Darrell Moore |
| 2007 | Lisa Tama Weisman | Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois | “From Totalitarianism to the Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx on History, Politics, and Philosophy.” | Peg Birmingham Bill Martin |
| 2007 | Robertus Wijanarko | Institute for Philosophy and Theology, Malang, Indonesia | “Exploring Indonesian Humanism: Revisiting Indonesian Nationalism, Humanism, and National Culture.” | Darrell Moore |
| 2007 | Peter Gratton | Southeastern Louisiana University |
“Freedom, Equality, but not Fraternity: Toward a Shared Sovereignty.” | Michael Naas |
| 2007 | Robert Tapia | Triton College, River Grove, IL |
“Cogito qui vivo: A Vitalistic Approach to the Problem of Man’s Being.” | Elizabeth Millán |
| 2007 | Robert Valgenti | Lebanon Valley University, Annville, Pennsylvania | “Critique and the Inheritance of Metaphysics: Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Kant.” | Will McNeill |
| 2007 | Sokthan Yeng | Adelphi University, New York | “Establishing Community Fitness through Michel Foucault’s Mechanisms of Power.” | Darrell Moore |
| 2006 | Brett Buchanan | Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. | “Onto-Ethologies: Relations Between Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze.” | Will McNeill |
| 2006 | William Behun | Adjunct, McHenry County College |
“The Historical Pivot: Philosophy of History in Hegel, Schelling, and Hölderlin.” | Will McNeill |
| 2006 | Gerard Kuperus |
University of San Francisco, California. | “Hegel’s Perspectivism.” | Kevin Thompson |
| 2006 | Robin James | University of North Carolina, Charlotte | The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race and the Philosophy of Music" | Tina Chanter |
| 2006 |
Pleshette de Armitt |
Deceased. Formerly: University of Memphis, Tennessee |
"Echoes of Narcissus: Aporias of Self-Relation in the Works of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida." | Peg Birmingham |
| 2006 | Nathan Ross | Assistant Director, Faculty Center for Professional Excellence, Adelphi University, New York |
"On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy." | Kevin Thompson |
| 2005 | Kenneth Burak | Northampton Community College, Pennsylvania | “Logic and Resistance: On Retroactive Constitution and Misrecognition in Hegel’s Science of Logic.” | Kevin Thompson |
| 2004 | Peter Wake | St. Edwards University, Texas. | “Tragedy, Speculation, and Ethicality in German Idealism.” | David Farrell Krell |
| 2004 | David Preiman | Poet |
"Care for the Whole: Some Scattered Remarks on the Introduction to Being and Time and Beyond." | Will McNeill |
| 2003 | Mark Walter | Aurora College, Illinois. | “Indications: Heidegger and Levinas on Language and Ethos after Husserl.” | Will McNeill |
| 2003 | Christina M. Gschwandtner | Fordham University, New York | "Sparks of Meaning at the Points of Friction: At the Boundary Between Philosophy and Theology in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion." | David Pellauer Michael Naas |
| 2003 | Christina Smerick | Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho |
“Between the Garden and the Gathering: The Intertwining of Philosophy with Theology in Walter Benjamin.” | Bill Martin |
| 2003 | Philip Cronce | Chicago State University, Chicago | “Max Scheler’s Typology of the Model Person: A Critique of Societal Role Models.” | David Pellauer |
| 2003 | Susanne Johansen-Trent | Independent scholar, Freelance Editor |
"Beyond Boundaries of Belonging: Transgressions of an Emigrant." | Mary Jeanne Larrabee |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Hoppe |
Loyola University Chicago |
"Looking for Eternity at Two O'Clock: Plato on Time and the Unknowable." | Michael Naas |
| 2002 | Ellen Cox | Transylvania University, Kentucky | "The Promise of Reading: Ethics, Narrativity, and the Law." | Michael Naas |
| 2002 | Kas Saghafi | University of Memphis, Tennessee | "Apparitions—Of the Other in Contemporary French Philosophy." | Michael Naas |
| 2002 | Daniel Selcer | Duquesne University, Pennsylvania | "Method and Repetition in Leibniz and Hegel." | Angelica Nuzzo |
| 2002 | Robert Vallier | Syracuse University in Florence |
"Institution: Of Nature, Life, and Meaning in Merleau-Ponty and Schelling." | David Farrell Krell |
| 2001 | Keith Peterson | Colby College, Waterville, Maine | "Problem and Construction: Kant, Schelling, Deleuze." | Angelica Nuzzo |
| 2000 | Matthew Pacholec | Unknown | "The Critical Aesthetics of Kant and Lyotard: Aesthetic Temporality, Sublime Subjectivity, and the Immaterial." | Peg Birmingham |
| 2000 | Susanna Pagliaro |
Office of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. | "Sensible Being: Sexual Difference, Air, and Other Universal Matters in the Thought of Luce Irigaray." | Peg Birmingham |
| 2000 | Madeleine Victoria | Unknown | "A Phenomenological Study of Dance: Dancing Bodies, A Celebration of Life!" | David Pellauer |
| 1999 | Daniel Price |
University of Houston Honors College, Texas. | "Difficult Abandon: The Shape of Singularity." | Michael Naas |
| 1999 | Kelly Coble | Baldwin Wallace College, Ohio | "Intelligible Character and Deed in Kant, Schelling and Musil." | David Farrell Krell |
| 1998 | Thomas Brugger |
Unknown | "Spinoza and Hegel on Ethical Individuals." | Stephen Houlgate |
| 1999 | Karen Feldman | University of California, Berkeley | "Rhetoric and Performativity." Department of Rhetoric" | Peg Birmingham |
| 1999 | Ferit Guven | Earlham College, Indiana | "The Death of Philosophy and the Beginning of Madness: Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and Foucault on Madness and Death." | Will McNeill |
| 1999 | Graham Harman |
SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, California |
"Tool-Being: Elements in a Theory of Objects." | Will McNeill |
| 1999 | Paul Schafer | Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana | "The Praxis of Philosophy: Nature, Reason, and Freedom in the Young Marx's Criticism of Hegelian Idealism." | Stephen Houlgate |
| 1999 | Anna Vaughn Clissold |
Humanities Center, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois | "The Generation of Creation: F.W.J. Schelling's Early Plato Studies." | David Farrell Krell |
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