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2022-2023

Mare McLevey, PhD
Dissertation Title: An Argument for a Cartographic Approach to Technology
Advisor: Nicolae Morar

Juan Sebastián Ospina, PhD
Dissertation Title: Living Legality: Law and Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation
Advisor: Alejandro Vallega
Initial Position: Core Lecturer in Philosophy at Smith College

Valérie Simon, PhD
Dissertation Title: Making Sense of the Practical Lesbian Past: Towards a Rethinking of Untimely Uses of History Through the Temporality of Cultural Techniques
Advisor: Colin Koopman

2021-2022

Devin Fitzpatrick
Dissertation Title: Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement
Advisor: Mark Johnson

Maggie Newton
Dissertation Title: Place-In-Being: A Decolonial Phenomenology of Place in Conversation with Philosophies of the Americas
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Degree Completion and Interdisciplinary Studies Coordinator/Advisor at Western Oregon University

Paul Showler
Dissertation Title: Pragmatism, Genealogy, and Moral Status
Advisor: Colin Koopman
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, SD

Harris Smith
Dissertation Title: Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato’s Meno
Advisor: Peter Warnek

Reese Haller
Thesis Title: Demystifying Racial Monopoly
Advisor: Camisha Russell

2020-2021

Joshua Kerr
Dissertation Title: The Hybris of Plants: Reinterpreting Philosophy through Vegetal Life
Advisor: Daniela Vallega-Neu and Alejandro Vallega
Initial Position: Full Time Lecturer, California State University, Stanislaus

Martina Ferrari
Dissertation Title: Decolonizing Silences: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Deep Silences with Gloria Anzaldua and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Advisor: Beata Stawarska
Initial Position: Coordinator of Student Outreach and Recruitment for College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villa Nova University in Villanova, PA

Eli Portella
Dissertation Title: Universal History as Global Critique: From German Critical Theory to the Anti-Colonial Tradition
Advisor: Rocío Zambrana    
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University

Rebekah Sinclair
Dissertation Title: Species Trouble: From ‘Settled Species Discourse’ to Decolonial Pluralism
Co-Advisors: Colin Koopman and Nicolae Morar    
Initial Position: Full-time Instructor in Philosophy at Oregon State University

Amie Zimmer
Dissertation Title: Mere Appearance: Redressing the History of Philosophy
Advisor: Beata Stawarska
Initial Position: Full-time Instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University

2019-2020

No dissertations defended this AY

2018-2019

Paria Akbar Akhgari
Dissertation Title: Feminism, Secularism, and the (Im)possibilities of an Islamic Feminism
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Missouri State University

Amy Marvin
Dissertation Title: Humorwork, Feminist Philosophy, and Unstable Politics
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Librarian and Events Coordinator at West Chester Public Library
Former Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College
Current Position: Louise M. Olmsted Fellow in Ethics at Lafayette College

Larry Busk
Dissertation Title: Democracy in Spite of the Demos: Arendt, the Democratic Turn, and Critical Theory
Advisor: Rocío Zambrana
Initial Position: Full Time Lecturer, California State University, Stanislaus

Tim C Christion
Dissertation Title: Motivating Collective Action in Response to an Existential Threat: Critical Phenomenology in a Climate-Changing World
Advisor: Ted Toadvine

Lauren Eichler
Dissertation Title: Dehumanization and the Metaphysics of Genocide: A New Theory for Genocide Prevention
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Full-time lecturer, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Old Dominion University

Billy Goehring
Dissertation Title: Repurposing Deleuze and Design
Advisor: Nicolae Morar
Initial Position: Translator for the NEH Project “The Deleuze Seminars”

Paul J Guernsey
Dissertation Title: Towards an Anticolonial Philosophy of Land in the West
Advisor: Ted Toadvine
Initial Position: Two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Penn State’s Humanities Institute
Current Position: Visiting position in Environmental Studies at University of Montana in Missoula, MT

Shannon Hayes
Dissertation Title: To Write the Body: Lost Time and the Work of Melancholy
Advisor: Alejandro Vallega
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Language, Literature, and Philosophy at Tennessee State University

Claire Pickard (Mairead)
Dissertation Title: Pro-X: A Historical Approach to the Philosophical Problems of the Life/Choice Binary in American Abortion Discourse
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Current Position: Adjunct in Philosophy at University of Mary Washington

Bonnie Sheehey
Dissertation Title: Reparative Critique
Advisor: Colin Koopman
Initial Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and History, Montana State University

Celena Simpson
Dissertation Title: The Mixed-Race W.E.B. Du Bois: Historical and Contemporary Insights
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: PathwayOregon Advisor, University of Oregon
Current Position: Associate Director of PathwayOregon

2017-2018

Anna Cook
Dissertation Title: Unable to Hear: Settler Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Fraser Valley

Russell J. Duvernoy
Dissertation Title: From Individuality to Ecological Attunement in Whitehead and Deleuze
Advisor: Ted Toadvine
Initial Position: Full-time Instructor, Seattle University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, King’s University College at Western University of Ontario

Dana Lauren Rognlie
Dissertation Title: The Love of Nike: On the Denials of Racialized Patriarchy and the Philosophy of Courageous Overcoming
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Portland State University; and Organizer with the New Mexico Higher Education Organizing Project
Former Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University
Current Position: Visiting position in Philosophy at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN

Gus Skorburg
Dissertation Title: Extended Virtues
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Post-doc at Duke University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Guelph University

2016-2017

David Craig Baumeister
Dissertation Title: Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Nature
Advisor: Ted Toadvine
Initial Position: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA

2015-2016

Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Paranoia: Affect, Temporality, and the Epistemology of Securitization
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Lecturer at Middle East Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey

Justin Pack
Dissertation Title: Academics No Longer Think: How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Stanislaus

Kimberley Parzuchowski
Dissertation Title: The Enchantment of Ethics: Narrative, Character & the Cultivation of Empathic Moral Perception
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Community Philosophy Institute Coordinator, University of Oregon
Current Position: Pro Tem Instructor, University of Oregon Robert Donald Clark Honors College

2014-2015

Megan Mae Burke
Dissertation Title: Gender and Time
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Philosophy at Oklahoma State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University

Alan Preston Reynolds
Dissertation Title: The Perils of Pluralism: An Exploration of the Nature of Political Disagreement Surrounding Economic Justice
Advisor: Colin Koopman
Initial Position: Full-time instructor and adviser at Coastal Carolina University

2013-2014

George Fourlas
Dissertation Title: Justice As Reconciliation: Political Theory in a World of Difference
Co-Advisors: Naomi Zack and Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Visiting Instructor of Philosophy, Worcester State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics at Hampshire College (Ethics and the Common Good)

Elizabeth McManaman Grosz
Dissertation Title:The Vulnerability of the Relational Self: G. W. F. Hegel, Simone de Beauvoir, and Nishida Kitaro Meet Patty Hearst
Co-Advisors: Beata Stawarska and Mark Unno
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of East Asian Philosophy at McDaniel College
Current Position: Assistant Professor of East Asian Philosophy at McDaniel College

Aaron Rodriguez
Dissertation Title: The Echo of God’s Laughter: Aesthetic Experience and the Virtue of Openness within a Pragmatist Ethics
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University

Lucy Schultz
Dissertation Title: Creative Climate: East-West Perspectives on Art, Nature, and the Expressive Body
Advisor: Ted Toadvine
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Midwestern State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Edgar I. Temam
Dissertation Title: The “Might Makes Right” Fallacy: On a Tacit Justification for Violence
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Adjunct Instructor for the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master’s Program at the University of Oregon School of Law
Current Position: Pro-Tem Instructor of English at the University of Oregon English Department

2012-2013

Caroline Rebecca Lundquist
Dissertation Title: Impossible and Necessary: The Problem of Luck and the Promise of Kindness
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Social Science Instructor at Lane Community College
Current Position: Pro Tem Instructor, University of Oregon Robert Donald Clark Honors College

Johanna Cathleen Luttrell
Dissertation Title: Gender, Alienation, and DIgnity in Global Slums
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Houston
Current Position: Tenure-track position, University of Houston

2011-2012

Kara Barnette
Dissertation Title: Necessary Error: Josiah Royce, Communal Inquiry, and Feminist Epistemology
Advisor: Scott L. Pratt
Initial Position: Visiting Instructor of Philosophy, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah

Elizabeth Anne Caldwell
Dissertation Title: Embodiment and Agency: The Concept of Growth in John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education
Advisor: Scott L. Pratt
Initial Position: Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Current Position: Academic Advisor at the University of Iowa

Alfred Frankowski
Dissertation Title: The Cassandra Complex: On Violence, Racism, and Mourning
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Jason Jordan
Dissertation Title: Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity
Advisor:  Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Visiting Philosophy Instructor, Oregon State University
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

José Jorge Mendoza
Dissertation Title: On Immigration Enforcement and Expulsion Strategies: A Moral and Political Defense of Immigrant Rights
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington

Paul Qualtere-Burcher
Dissertation Title: Rethinking the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Physician’s Philosophical Perspective
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Current Position: Associate Professor in the Alden March Bioethics Institute in Albany, New York

2010-2011

Sarah LaChance Adams
Dissertation Title: The Ethics of Ambivalence: Maternity, Intersubjectivity and Ethics in Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir
Advisor: Beata Stawarska
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Social Inquiry, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Amrita Banerjee
Dissertation Title: Re-conceiving “Borders”: A Feminist Pragmatic Phenomenology for Postcolonial Feminist Ethics and Politics
Advisor: Scott Pratt and Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay

Elena Cuffari
Dissertation Title: Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Logic and Philosophy and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University

Emma Jones
Dissertation Title: Speaking at the Limit: The Ontology of Luce Irigaray’s Ethics, In Dialogue with Lacan and Heidegger
Advisor:  Alejandro Vallega and Beata Stawarska
Initial Position: Grant Writer, STAND! for Families Free of Violence
Current Position: Grants Manager at STAND! For Families Free of Violence, Freelance Writer, Copy-Editor, and Fundraising Consultant

Thomas Nail
Dissertation Title and Advisor: Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo
Advisor: Ted Toadvine
Initial Position: Postdoctoral Instructor in Continental Philosophy, University of Denver
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver

Grant Silva
Dissertation Title: Thinking about Justice from “the Outside” of Nationality: Latin American Philosophical Reflections on Legal-Citizenship, Nationality, Race and Racism
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2009-2010

Sean Williams
Dissertation Title: Silence and Phenomenology: The Movement Between Nature and Language in Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Schelling
Advisor: Peter Warnek
Initial Position: Lecturer, National Outdoor Leadership School
Current Position: Field Instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School

Mathew Alan Foust
Dissertation Title: Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life
Advisor: Scott L. Pratt
Initial Position: 2010-11 position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the General Education Office at BNU-HKBU United International College, in Zhuhai
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of East Asian Studies, Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT

Carolyn Sue Culbertson
Dissertation Title: The Claim of Language: A Phenomenological Approach
Advisor: John Lysaker and Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Elon University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University

2008-2009

Robin Lynn Zebrowski
Dissertation Title: We Are Plastic: Human Variability and the Myth of the Standard Body
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Beloit College
Current Position: Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Beloit College

Jazmine Lily Gabriel
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Life: From Mechanism to Surprise
Advisor: Namoi Zack
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Willamette University
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy, Siena College

2007-2008

Adam Charles Arola
Dissertation Title: The Movement of Philosophy: Freedom as Ecstatic Thinking in Schelling and Heidegger
Advisor: Peter Warnek
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University
Current Position: Senior Strategic Planner at Wieden+Kennedy

Celia Tagamolila Bardwell-Jones
Dissertation Title: Travel, Home and the Space-Between: A Feminist Pragmatist Approach to Transnational Identities
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Towson University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies Program Coordinator, and Affiliate Faculty in the Filipino Studies Certificate Program at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo

Alain Henry Beauclair
Dissertation Title: John Dewey’s Ethics of Imagination
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Central Washington University
Current Position: Full-time Philosophy Faculty, MacEwan University

Rochelle Marie Green
Dissertation Title: The Self Overcoming: Hope, Relationality, and Politics
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Visiting Instructor of Philosophy and Religion, Goucher College
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, ESWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award Secretary, and Executive Secretary for the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy

Melissa Marie Shew
Dissertation Title: The Phenomenon of Chance in Ancient Greek Thought
Advisor: Peter Warnek
Initial Position: Faculty member in English and Communications at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School in Milwaukee, WI, and Moderator of the Creative Writing Club and Divine Savior Holy Angels-Marquette University High School Philosophy Club
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University

2006-2007

Jonathan Brent Crouch
Dissertation Title: Josiah Royce’s Science of Order
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Current Position: Head Coach for the University of Southern California’s women’s volleyball program

Amy Eloise Story
Dissertation Title: Ethics and the Boundaries of Self: A Study of Beauvoir and Levinas and a Reading of Play It As It Lays and Beloved
Advisor: Bonnie Mann
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program, Baldwin Wallace University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program, Baldwin Wallace University

John William Kaiser Ortiz
Dissertation Title: Paz’s Theory of Self
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: 2-year teaching position in the Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University in Ohio
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Millersville University, Pennsylvania

John Jacob Kaag
Dissertation Title: Thinking Through the Imagination: The Centrality of Aesthetic Creativity in Human Cognition
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Post doc/Researcher, Harvard University, Humanities Center
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Matthew Russell Crom
Dissertation Title: Religious Pluralism: Josiah Royce’s Communities of Interpretation
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Revenue Agent, Compliance Division, Washington State Department of Revenue
Current Position: Revenue Agent, Compliance Division, Washington State Department of Revenue

2005-2006

John Salvatore Capaccio
Dissertation Title: Blood and Soil: An Examination of the Authority of Tradition
Advisor: John Lysaker
Initial Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Chemeketa Community College
Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy and Philosophy Club Advisor, Chemeketa Community College Yamhill Valley Campus

Kimberly K. Garchar
Dissertation Title: A Dying Community: A Roycean Critique of the Medical Community at the End of Life
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Post doc/Researcher/Teaching position, University of Colorado at Denver, and Health Sciences Center
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University

Jena Grace Jolissaint
Dissertation Title: Receiving Socrates’ Banquet: Plato, Schelling and Irigaray on Nature and Sexual Difference
Advisor: Peter Warnek
Initial Position: Law student, Georgia State University College of Law
Current Position: Full-time contractual position in Philosophy, South University

Chaone L. Mallory
Dissertation Title: Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Representation, and the Politics of Subjectivity
Advisor: John Lysaker
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

Jennifer Kristin McWeeny
Dissertation Title: Knowing Emotions: Emotional Intentionality and Epistemological Sense
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic University

Lisa Michelle Yount
Dissertation Title: Remembrance, Representation, and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Memorial Curation
Advisor: Naomi Zack
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Critical Thinking, Savannah State University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Critical Thinking, Savannah State University

2004-2005

Dana Michelle Berthold
Dissertation Title: A Genealogy of Purity
Advisor: John Lysaker
Current Position: Regional Representative, Pacific Crest Trail Association

2003-2004

Patricia Anne Halliday
Dissertation Title: Conceptions of Agency and Responsibility in the Language(s) of Incest
Advisors: Nancy Tuana and Scott Pratt
Current Position: private business

Benjamin Joseph Wooster
Dissertation Title: Solid Proof and Vulgar Bias: Hume’s Theory of Causation
Advisor: Will Davie
Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Rockingham Community College

David Todd Butler-Ritchie
Dissertation Title: Shifting Foundations and Historical Contingencies: A Critique of Modern Constitutionalism
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law, Mercer University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Mercer University

Lorraine Florence Brundige
Dissertation Title: tansi taisinisitohtamahk kitaskino: Cree Philosophy awa kayaskiyacimowin
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Native Studies, Brandon University
Current Position: Associate Professor and Chair of Native Studies, Brandon University

2002-2003

Steven Ravett Brown
Dissertation Title: Structural Phenomenology: An Empirically-Based Model of Consciousness
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Current Position: Analyst/Programmer and Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester

Juan Ferret
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Pluralism: A Pluralist Framework for Science
Advisors: Scott Pratt and Nancy Tuana
Initial Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University
Current Position: Executive Director, Philosophic Systems Institute

Alexandra Lynn Stotts
Dissertation Title: Giving Birth to Feminist Pragmatism Inquiry: A Deweyan Alternative to Quinean Empiricism
Advisors: Scott Pratt and Nancy Tuana
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College Current Position: private business

2001-2002

Hollis Garrett Wright
Dissertation Title: Means, Ends and Medical Care
Advisor:  Mark Johnson
Current Position: private business

John Edward Martin Shuford
Dissertation Title: The “Gift” of Affirmative Action: Racial Redress Toward Racial Healing
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Law school student, University of Oregon
Current Position: Director, Institute for Hate Studies, Gonzaga University

Terrance Anthony MacMullan
Dissertation Title: Dewey and DuBois: The Meaning of Race and Whiteness
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Washington University
Current Position: Professor of Philosophy and Honors Program, Eastern Washington University

Kenneth Alan Kirby
Dissertation Title: Fractured Vision: Myth and Discernment in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy
Advisor: Will Davie
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Willamette University
Current Position: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Western Oregon University

Peter W. Esser
Dissertation Title: John Dewey’s Art as Experience: A Treatise On the Art of Living
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Current Position: retired

Timothy Lee Adamson
Dissertation Title: Measuring Flesh: A Phenomenology of Bodily Perception
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Iowa Wesleyan College
Current Position: unknown

2000-2001

Vincent Michel Mulier
Dissertation Title: Pragmatism in the Columbia Basin: Laws, Values, and the Emergence of a Regional River Ethic
Advisor: Scott Pratt
Initial Position: Staff Member, Bill Bradbury Senatorial Campiagn
Current Position: solo law practice, specializing in land use law and consulting

Quang Phu Van
Dissertation Title: Roaming the World and Wandering at Ease: Nguyen Cong Tru’s Poetic Vision of Becoming a Fully Developed Human Being
Advisor: Don Levi
Initial Position: Lecturer in Vietnamese Language, Culture, and Literature, Yale University
Current Position: Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese Language, Culture, and Literature, and Faculty Advisor for the Yale Vietnamese Studies Group, Yale University

Jeffrey James Stolle
Dissertation Title: The Paradox of Ethical Immediacy: Levinas and Kant Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Instructor of Leadership and Communication, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
Current Position: Senior Instructor of Management, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon

Stephen Jay Stern
Dissertation Title: Ethics After the Holocaust: The Time Before Genocide
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Mary’s College
Current Position: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gettysburg College

Maurice Francois Hamington
Dissertation Title: Embodied Care
Advisor: Nancy Tuana
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Indiana
Current Position: Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of University Studies, Portland State University

Steven Barry Brence
Dissertation Title: Multiculturalism: The Refusal and Reconstruction of Recognition
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Instructor of Philosophy, Oregon State University
Current Position: Instructor of Philosophy, University of Oregon

1999-2000

Cynthia Diane Coe
Dissertation Title: The Time of Subjectivity: Reconceiving History as Ethics in Foucault and Levinas
Advisor: Cheyney Ryan
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Monmouth College
Current Position: Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women Studies, Central Washington University

Donald J. Morse
Dissertation Title: Dewey’s Ethics: Moral Value in the Natural World
Advisor: Mark Johnson
Initial Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
Current Position: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri

1998-1999

Jada Z. Prane
Dissertation Title: Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociated Identity Disorder: the Client as Actor Model
Advisor: Don Levi
Current Position: Philosophical Marriage and Family Counselor, Springfield, Oregon