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Our PhD Graduates

Here is a list of our PhD graduates since 2000, together with the information we have about their first positions gained on completion of the PhD and their current positions.

Are you an alum of the UW Graduate Program in Philosophy ? We would love to hear from you and find out all about what you have been doing. Send the Department your news via Debbie Dietrich at ddietric@uwaterloo.ca, and fill out a School of Arts update. Also be sure to check out our Alumni and Friends page and join our Facebook group for Department alums.

If any of the information we have for you is missing , incorrect and out of date, please let us know.

2010

Marcia Sokolowski, (PhD)
An Examination of the Moral Authority of Use of Advance Directives with the Alzheimer's Dementia Population
First position after PhD: Clinical Ethicist, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care 
Current position: Co-Director of Ethics, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Ethan Wilding, (MA/PhD)
The Ethics of Nuclear Waste in Canada
First position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and Photographer
Current position: same

Allen Wiseman, (MA/PhD)
A Contemporary Examination of the A Fortiori Argument Involving Jewish Traditions

2009

Grahame Booker, (PhD)
Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
First position after PhD: Independent Researcher
Current position: same

2008

Poonam Dohutia, (PhD)
Thinking the Impossible:  Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Impossible Cases
First position after PhD: Policy Analyst, Health Canada  
Current position: same

Neil Haddow, (MA/PhD)
Human Rights:  Reconciling Rights with Value Pluralism

Andrew Stumpf, (PhD)
From Objects to Individuals:  An Essay in Analytic Ontology
First position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University
Current position: same

2007

Nancy Davies, (PhD)
A Defense of Semantic Conventionalism

Sharon Lee, (MA/PhD)
Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights & Individual Actions
First position after PhD: Import Product Manager, Oxford University Press
Current position: Territory Manager, Pearson

Joseph Mikhael, (MA/PhD)
Philosophy of Bioinformatics: Extended Cognition, Analogies and Mechanisms
First position after PhD: Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Current position: Business Analyst, Health Canada

2006

Hanan Al-Khalaf, (PhD)
On Merleau-Ponty and the Preconceptions of Human Experience
First position after PhD: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kuwait University
Current position: same

Jeff Brown, (PhD)
Offensive Ethics:  Alterity and Alternative Modes of Philosophical Discourse
First position after PhD: ESL Teacher at Canadian College of Business and English
Current position: Sessional instructor at Seneca College in Toronto

2004

Christine Freeman-Roth, (PhD)
Emotivating Justice: The Role of Emotion in Moral Theory and Practice
First position after PhD:  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trent University
Current position: Course Instructor & Senior Academic Advisor, Lady Eaton College, Trent University

Hendrik van der Breggen, (PhD)
Miracle Reports, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Science
First position after PhD: Adjunct in Philosophy, Emmanuel Bible College, Heritage College and lecturer in Philosophy, St. Jerome's University
Current position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Providence College and Seminary

2003

Jason West, (MA/PhD)
Thomas Aquinas' Use of Metaphysics: Natura, Suppositum and Esse
First position after PhD: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Newman Theological College
Current position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Newman Theological College

Jing Zhu, (PhD)
The Cognitive Mind:  Volition and Action
First position after PhD: Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities,
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Current position: Professor, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Logic & Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China and Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition of the National Yang Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan

2002

Gary Foster, (MA/PhD)
Narrative and the Ethics of Reconciliation
First position after PhD: Sessional Instructor in Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

2000

Paul Groarke, (MA/PhD)
Legitimacy, Legality and Sucession

Andrew Reeve, (PhD)
Incommensurability in Ethics and in the Philosophy of Science
First position after PhD: President, Reeve and Company Ltd.
Current position: same

Christopher Tucker, (PhD)
Tractable Contractianism
First position after PhD: Gerst Post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University
Current position: Lawyer

1999

Craig Beam, (PhD)
Virtue Beyond Morality : Nietzsche's Ethical Naturalism
First position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Current position: Sessional Instructor in Philosophy and Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Gary Dann, (PhD)
Rorty's Metaphilosophy in Relation to Radical Theology

Laura McMaster, (PhD)
Expanding the Traditional Paradigm: The Reader's Experience of Philosophical Literature

Cameron Shelley, (MA/PhD)
Reasoning by Multiple Analogies
First position after PhD: Lecturer in the Centre for Society, Technology, and Values, University of Waterloo
Current position: same

1998

Alison Barnes, (PhD)
Reading Other Minds
First position after PhD:  Continuing Sessional lecturer, University of Victoria (Philosophy)
Current position:  same

Christopher Dicarlo, (PhD)
Evolutionary Epistemology and the Concept of Ignorance
First position after PhD:  Sessional Instructor, University of Guelph/WLU and Visiting Research Scholar, Harvard University                                                
Current position:  Advisory Fellow for CFI Canada (Centre for Inquiry)

Douglas Mann, (PhD)
Structural Idealism

Paul Rusnock, (MA/PhD)
A Critical Introduction to Bolzano's Philosophy
First position after PhD:  Post doc at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in Paris
Current position:  Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Ottawa, Department of Philosophy

1996

Louis Groarke, (MA/PhD)
Autonomy, Rationality, Morality
First position after PhD:  Professor, Okanagan University College
Current position:  Associate Professor, St Francis Xavier University (Philosophy)

Glen Koehn, (PhD)
Fictional Objects
First position after PhD:  Adjunct lecturer, University of Maryland University College.
Current position:  Assistant Professor, Huron University College at Western (Philosophy)

1995

Nebojsa Kujundzic, (PhD)
Inquiry into Mental Variation
First position after PhD:  Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University (Philosophy)
Current position:  Associate Professor, University of Prince Edward Island (Philosophy)

R. Malcolm Murray, (MA/PhD)
Occurant Contractarianism
First position after PhD:  Sabbatical replacement, Red Deer College
Current position:  Professor, University of Prince Edward Island (Philosophy)

1994

David Jennex, (PhD)
Genetic Engineering and Our Sense of Self

Alix J. Nalezinski, (MA/PhD)
Pornography and Censorship

1993

Nirmalya N. Chakraborty, (PhD)
An Inquiry into Meaning:  In the Light of WV Quine and D Davidson

(Rev.) Philip Crowell, (PhD)
Tillich & Gadmer on Relativism: The Hermeneutics of Play & Double Perspective

Gloria Lismer, (PhD)
Whitehead's Theory of Prehensions

1992

Andreas Blom, (MA/PhD)
In Defence of Euthanasia: The Epicurean View of Death

Manoharan Daniel, (MA/PhD)
Relating Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Hannah Arendt on the Human Condition

Bruce Janz, (MA/PhD)
Jacob Boehme's Theory of Knowledge in Mysterium Magnum
First position after PhD:  Assistant Professor, Augustana Faculty of University of Alberta (Philosophy)
Current position:  Chair & Associate Professor, University of Central Florida (Philosophy), Director, Centre for Humanities & Digital Research

Richard E. Maundrell, (MA/PhD)
Sartre and Liberalism
First position after PhD:  Assistant Professor, Lakehead University
Current position:  Associate Professor, Lakehead University

1991

Donald McLean, (PhD)
What's in a Name: An Interpretation of Plato's Cratylus
First position after PhD:  Part Time Faculty, University of Waterloo & Brock University (Philosophy)
Current position:  Professor & Program Coordinator, Western Illinois University, Quad Cities (Recreation, Park & Tourism Administration)

R. Scott Stewart, (PhD)
Poetry and Politics: The Influence of Aesthetics in the Thought of John Stuart Mill
First position after PhD:  Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University (Philosophy)
Current position:  Professor, Cape Breton University (Philosophy)

1990

Ronald Paul Leonard, (PhD)
The Transcendental Philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff

Daryl Pullman, (PhD)
Human Dignity and the Foundation of Liberalism
First position after PhD:  Part time faculty, University of Waterloo (Faculty of Engineering, Applied Health Sciences and Arts )
Current position:  Professor, Memorial University (Faculty of Medicine, Division of Community Health and Humanities, and Cross appointed w/ Philosophy and School of Nursing)