Villanova has an outstanding placement record. Students who have completed the Ph.D. in our program are listed below, with their current positions and dissertation titles.

P. Taylor Trussell, Ph.D. 2009, "The Gift of Power: Foucault, Derrida, and Normalization"

Edward Kazarian, Ph.D. 2009, Rowan University, (Adjunct) "The Science of Events: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis"

Andrew Davis, Ph.D. 2009, Belmont College (Assistant Professor) "Living Method: From the Regulative to the Constitutive Idea in Hegel's Logic"

Ashley Vaught, Ph.D. 2008, Fordham University (full time 3 year position) “The Specter of Spinoza in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift”

Adriel Trott, Ph.D. 2008, University of Texas, Pan Am (tenure track) "The Challenge of Physis: Reconcilling Nature and Reason in Aristotle's Politics"

Michael Brogan, Ph.D. 2007, St. John's University - Annapolis (tenure track) "Fugitive or Hostage?  The Embodied Subject According to Levinas"

Daniel Greenspan, Ph.D. 2006, Loyola Marymount, "Kierkegaard and the Rebirth of Tragedy: Philosophy, Poetry and the Problem of the Irrational" (with constant reference to Aristotle and Sophocles)

Joshua Alan Ramey, Ph.D. 2006, Rowan University (full-time temporary) "Gilles Deleuze and the Powers of Art"

Matthew Groe, Ph.D. 2006, Jacksonville University (Visiting Assistant Professor) "Ethical Coexistence Beyond Dualism: The Converging Visions of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty"

Judd Seth Wright, Ph.D. 2006, "The Foundations of Productive History in Mimesis and Narrative Identity"
 
Michael Marx Shaw, Ph.D. 2006, Utah Valley State College (tenured associate professor), "The Role of Desire in Aristotle's Ontology"

Andrea Margaret Hurst, Ph.D. 2006, (adjunct) Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, "Derrida or Lacan: The Revolutionary's Choice On the 'Plural Logic Of the Aporia' in Deconstruction and Lacanian Psychoanalysis"

Gregory Hoskins, Ph.D. 2005, Villanova University (one-year renewable), "The Politics of Memory: A Philosophical Investigation"

Adam Miller, Ph.D. 2005, Cook County Community College (tenure track), "Immanent Grace: Badiou, Marion, & Saint Paul"
 
John Whitmire, Ph.D. 2005, Western Carolina University (tenure track), "On the Subject of Autobiography: Finding a Self in the Works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Derrida"

Timothy Kirk, Ph.D. 2004, City University of New York-York College (tenure track) "The Moral Significance of Intimacy in Nurse-Patient Relationships"

Ammon Allred, Ph.D. 2004, Villanova University (full-time temporary), "The Lyrical Age: Reconfiguring Metaphysics, Modernity, and Poetry in the Thought of Martin Heidegger"

Lucio Privitello, Ph.D. 2003, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (tenured associate professor), "Animality and Laughter: Contributions to a Theory at the Borders of Philosophical Discourse (Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille)"

Farhang Erfani, Ph.D. 2003, American University (tenure track), "Left on the Road to Utopia: Social Imaginary in the Age of Democracy"

Dana Belu, Ph.D. 2003, California State University, Dominguez Hills (tenure track), "Thinking Again: Heidegger on Technology and the Place of Freedom"
 
Michael Andrews, Ph.D. 2002, Seattle University, Associate Professor (tenured), "Contributions to the Phenomenology of Empathy: Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Emmanuel Levinas"

Jamey Findling, Ph.D. 2002, Newman College (tenure track/permanent), "The Dialectic of Being: Gadamer's Reading of Plato"

Shannon Mussett, Ph.D. 2002, Utah Valley State College (tenured associate professor), "Binding Nature and Freedom: Hegelian Themes of Liberation and Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir"

Sarah Donovan, Ph.D. 2002, Wagner College (tenured associate professor), "Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray: Feminist Resources for Overcoming Oppressive Exclusions"

Joseph Berendzen, Ph.D. 2002, Loyola, New Orleans (tenure track), "Toward an Existential Critical Theory of Deliberative Democracy"

Steve Finn, Ph.D. 2002, United States Military Academy (assistant professor), "The Political Influence: Hobbes's Politics and Natural Philosophy"

Christian Diehm, Ph.D. 2001, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (tenure track), "The Gravity of Nature: Other-than-human Others in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas"

Darin Crawford Gates, Ph.D. 2001, Brigham Young University (one-year renewable), "The Ontological Disclosure and Ethical Exposure of Meaning in Heidegger and Levinas"

Theodore D. George, Ph.D. 2000, Texas A&M University (tenured associate professor), "Hegel's Speculative Theory of Political Life: Community and Tragedy in the Phenomenology of Spirit"

Matthias Fritsch, Ph.D. 1999, Concordia University (tenured associate professor), "Benjamin, Derrida, and the Politics of Memory: The Promise of History Reconsidered"
 
James K.A. Smith, Ph.D. 1999, Calvin College (tenured associate professor), "How to Avoid Not Speaking: On the Phenomenological Possibility of Theology"

Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Ph.D. 1999, Fordham University (tenured associate professor), "Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Languages