SPEL Placement

SPEL Placement

SPEL faculty members have been the dissertation directors of all of the alumni listed on this page. Because SPEL is a fairly new program (2002 was the first year in which a SPEL student graduated with a Ph.D.), some of those listed below are alumni of the previous graduate programs of the Binghamton University Philosophy Department; their (former) advisors are currently on the SPEL faculty.

Name	Phd Year	Dissertation	Current Position	Tenure track
Howard Engelskirchen	2007		Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University
Desiree Melton	2006	Existential Disappointment: A Sociopolitical Theory of Black Visibility	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Notre Dame of Maryland	Tenure track
Michael Winkley	2006	Strang: A Model of Analogical Conceptual Change	Research Scientist, Griffiss Air Force Base
Monica O’Brien	2005	Bombed-Out Consciousness: The Negative Theology of the Modern Subject in Adorno, Beckett, and Delillo	Assistant Professor of Literature and Humanities, Chester College of New England	Tenure track
Jane Drexler		Politics Improper: Radical Democratic Feminist Political Theory, Hannah Arendt and the Political Importance of the Inappropriate	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Salt Lake Community College	Tenure track
Christal Frakes	2004	The Virtue of Compassion: Responding to Suffering with Equanimity	Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Shalahudin Kafrawi	2004	Supreme Being in Islamic Intellectual Tradition	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Moravian College	Tenure track
Camila De Gamboa	2003	Forgiveness and Political Reconciliation for Transitional Democracies	Professor, School of Law, Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia
Etin Anwar	2002	Gender and Self in Islam: A Philosophical Interpretation	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Tenure track
Diane Enns	2002	Emancipatory Desire and the Struggle for Liberation: Freedom and Politics in Question	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, McMaster University	Tenure track
Coeli Fitzpatrick	2002	Galen’s Necessary Causes in Medieval Arabic Sources	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University	Tenure track
James Sheppard	2002	Urban Environmental Ethics: Toward Flourishing Human and Ecological Communities	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Missouri at Kansas City	Tenure track
Liz Randol	2001	Momentary Engagements in Resistance: Rethinking Political Action	Chief of Staff, Lackawanna County Board of Commissioners
Dianna Taylor	2001	Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: Towards a Politics of Transformation	Associate Professor of Philosophy and Dept. Chair, John Carroll University	Tenured
Morteza Agha-Tehrani	2000	On the Meta-Mysticism of Ibn Sina	Dean of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Theological Studies, Qom, Iran	Tenured
Robert Davidson	2000	On the significance of experience: Discovering experience's role in the mind	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point	Tenure track
Steve DeCaroli	2000	Go Hither and Look: Aesthetics, History and the Exemplary in Late Eighteenth-Century	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Goucher College	Tenure track
Jon Mahoney	2000	Autonomy and Obligation: On Moral Discourse and Reciprocal Accountability	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University	Tenure track
Scott Scribner	2000	Spirit in the Age of Technology: The Fichtean Imagination and the Medium of the Social	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Hartford - Hillyer College	Tenure track
Bram Van Heuveln	2000	Emergent Cognition	Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Tenure track
Lewis Loren	1999	Cognitive Bodies: The Phenomenology of Artificial Intelligence	Senior Research Scientist, MITRE
Clayton Morrison	1999	Situated Representation: Solving the Handcoding Problem with Emergent, Structured Representation	Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Rose Paradis	1999	An Automated Auditor: Hybrid Architectures and the Brittleness Problem	Senior Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin
Joseph Lewandowsky	1997	The Constellation of Culture: On Method and Truth in Critical Social Theory	Associate Professor of Philosophy, Central Missouri State University	Tenured