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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.

  • Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Ph.D. 1999, Fordham University (tenured associate), "Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Languages"
  • James K.A. Smith, Ph.D. 1999, Calvin College (tenured associate), "How to Avoid Not Speaking: On the Phenomenological Possibility of Theology"
  • Matthias Fritsch, Ph.D. 1999, Concordia University (tenured associate), "Benjamin, Derrida, and the Politics of Memory: The Promise of History Reconsidered"
  • Theodore D. George, Ph.D. 2000, Texas A&M University (tenured associate), "Hegel's Speculative Theory of Political Life: Community and Tragedy in the Phenomenology of Spirit"
  • Darin Crawford Gates, Ph.D. 2001, Brigham Young University (one-year renewable), "The Ontological Disclosure and Ethical Exposure of Meaning in Heidegger and Levinas"
  • 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"
  • Steve Finn, Ph.D. 2002, Seattle University (adjunct by choice) & Independent Board Game Designer, "The Political Influence: Hobbes's Politics and Natural Philosophy"
  • Joseph Berendzen, Ph.D. 2002, Loyola, New Orleans (tenure track), "Toward an Existential Critical Theory of Deliberative Democracy"
  • Sarah Donovan, Ph.D. 2002, Wagner College (tenure track), "Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray: Feminist Resources for Overcoming Oppressive Exclusions"
  • Shannon Mussett, Ph.D. 2002, Utah Valley State College (tenure track), "Binding Nature and Freedom: Hegelian Themes of Liberation and Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir"
  • Jamey Findling, Ph.D. 2002, Newman College (tenure track/permanent), "The Dialectic of Being: Gadamer's Reading of Plato"
  • Michael Andrews, Ph.D. 2002, Seattle University, Associate Professor (tenured), "Contributions to the Phenomenology of Empathy: Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Emmanuel Levinas"
  • Dana Belu, Ph.D. 2003, California State University, Dominguez Hills (tenure track), "Thinking Again: Heidegger on Technology and the Place of Freedom"
  • Farhang Erfani, Ph.D. 2003, American University (tenure track), "Left on the Road to Utopia: Social Imaginary in the Age of Democracy"
  • Lucio Privitello, Ph.D. 2003, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (tenure track), "Animality and Laughter: Contributions to a Theory at the Borders of Philosophical Discourse (Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille)"
  • Ammon Allred, Ph.D. 2004, Villanova University (full-time temporary), "The Lyrical Age: Reconfiguring Metaphysics, Modernity, and Poetry in the Thought of Martin Heidegger"
  • Timothy Kirk, Ph.D. 2004, City University of New York-York College (tenure track) "The Moral Significance of Intimacy in Nurse-Patient Relationships"
  • 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"
  • Adam Miller, Ph.D. 2005, Cook County Community College (tenure track), "Immanent Grace: Badiou, Marion, & Saint Paul"
  • Gregory Hoskins, Ph.D. 2005, Villanova University (one-year renewable), "The Politics of Memory: A Philosophical Investigation"
  • 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"
  • Michael Marx Shaw, Ph.D. 2006, Utah Valley State College (tenure track), "The Role of Desire in Aristotle's Ontology"
  • Judd Seth Wright, Ph.D. 2006, "The Foundations of Productive History in Mimesis and Narrative Identity"
  • Matthew Groe, Ph.D. 2006, Jacksonville University (Visiting Assistant Professor) "Ethical Coexistence Beyond Dualism: The Converging Visions of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty"
  • Joshua Alan Ramey, Ph.D. 2006, Rowan University (full-time temporary) "Gilles Deleuze and the Powers of Art"
  • 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)
  • Michael Brogan, Ph.D. 2007, St. John's University - Annapolis (tenure track) "Fugitive or Hostage?  The Embodied Subject According to Levinas"
  • Adriel Trott, Ph.D. 2008, University of Texas, Pan Am (tenure track) "The Challenge of Physis: Reconcilling Nature and Reason in Aristotle's Politics"
  • Ashley Vaught, Ph.D. 2008, Fordham University (full time 3 year position) “The Specter of Spinoza in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift”