Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008

MOVING TO FRONT (originally posted February 8)

It's that time of year again...I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in fall 2008 (or thereafter).  (For schools outside the US, please list new Lecturers who are on presumptively permanent appointments--not temporary lecturers.)  Like last year, you may also post information about post-doc appointments, since there are an increasing number of those in philosophy, many quite attractive.  No anonymous posts will be allowed. The candidates themselves, dissertation advisors, placement directors, department chairs, or faculty members involved with the hiring or the placement of the candidate may all post information.  No hearsay, however:  you must have first-hand knowledge of the placement.  (Please e-mail me about any errors.)

The format of the postings should be as follows:  candidate's name (name of PhD-granting school) hired by [name of school].  AOS: ________; any prior positions (e.g., a postdoc, a lectureship, a visiting asst prof position).  In the case of a post-doc, it should say not 'hired by' but 'post-doc at' [name of school].

Here's an example (fictional):

John Smith (Chicago) hired by Kenyon College.   AOS:  19th-Century Philosophy.  Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University.

Remember:  tenure-track jobs and postdocs only.  I'll move this thread to the front at various intervals until it looks like the hiring season has wound down.  Please post only once; postings should appear within 24 hours

Comments

[Steven French]

Jason Turner (Rutgers) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action / Free Will, Philosophy of Language / Philosophical Logic.

Juha Saatsi (Leeds) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: Philosophy of Science. Previously fixed-term lecturer University of Manchester, University of Leeds.

Sophie Weeks (Leeds) hired by University of Leeds. AOS: History of Early Modern Science. Currently Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (appointment deferred until 2009).

[Michael Bergmann]

T. Allan Hillman (Purdue) hired by University of South Alabama. AOS: History of Early Modern / Metaphysics

[Lynn Holt]

Robert Thompson (Washington University St. Louis) Hired by Mississippi State University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Wabash College and Rice University.

[Lynn Holt]

Bart Moffatt (Minnesota) hired by Mississippi State University. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science.

[Sandy Goldberg]

Tushar Irani (Northwestern) hired by Wesleyan University (joint appointment: Philosophy Department, and the College of Letters). AOS: Ancient Philosophy and Virtue Ethics.

[J.S. Swindell]

J.S. Swindell (Michigan State) hired by Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. AOS: Bioethics, Ethics (esp. moral psychology and action theory).

[Dirk]

Fiona Leigh (Monash) post-doc at King's College London. AOS: Ancient

Angela Ballantyne (Monash) post-doc at Yale. AOS: Bioethics. Previously lecturer at Flinders.

Jill Craigie (Monash) post-doc at King's College London. AOS: Cog Sci/Moral Psych.

[Paul Lodge]

Stephan Blatti (Oxford) hired by University of Memphis. AOS: Metaphysics; philosophy of mind.

[Robert Howell]

Justin Fisher (Arizona) hired by Southern Methodist University. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/CogSci/Language

[Allan Hazlett]

Samir Haddad (Northwestern) hired by Fordham University. AOS: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy. Previously post-doc at Fordham.

[Robert Talisse]

Mason Marshall (Vanderbilt) hired by Pepperdine University. AOS: Ancient, Plato.

Robert Sharp (Vanderbilt) hired by Muskingum College. AOS: Ethics

[Allan Hazlett]

Daniel Breyer (Fordham) hired by Illinois State University. AOS: Epistemology, Moral Philosophy.

[Allan Hazlett]

Stephen Grimm (Notre Dame) hired by Fordham University. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Value Theory. Previously tenure-track at University of Montana.

[Trenton Merricks]

Catherine Sutton (Virginia) hired by Virginia Commonwealth University. AOS: Metaphysics

[Trenton Merricks]

Elizabeth Fenton (Virginia) two-year post-doc at Harvard University (Program in Ethics and Health). AOS: Ethics and Bioethics

[alan nelson]

John Whipple (UC, Irvine) hired by University of Illinois at Chicago. AOS: Early Modern

[Scott Berman]

Jonathan Jacobs (Indiana) hired by Saint Louis University. AOS: Metaphysics. Previously tenure-track at University of St. Thomas.

[James E. Mahon]

Nathaniel Goldberg (Georgetown) hired by Washington and Lee University. AOS: Epistemology, Early Modern, Philosophy of Language. Previously tenure-track at Ohio University.

Florentien Verhage (McGill) hired by Washington and Lee University. AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind.

[Susanna Siegel]

Bharath Vallabha (Harvard) hired by Byrn Mawr College. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action.

[Michael Baur]

Jane Dryden (Fordham) hired by Mount Allison University. AOS: German Idealism, Feminist philosophy.

[Michael Baur]

Anne Ozar (Fordham) hired by Creighton University. AOS: Phenomenology.

[Rico Vitz]

Chloe Taylor (Toronto) hired by the University of North Florida. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Race and Gender. Previously post-doc at McGill.

[Robert Wicks]

Glen Pettigrove (UC, Riverside) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

Matheson Russell (New South Wales) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Phenomenology, Critical Theory

Patrick Girard (Stanford) hired by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. AOS: Logic

[Chris Tillman]

Esa Diaz-Leon (Sheffield) hired by University of Manitoba. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

[Ronald Loeffler]

Andrew Spear (SUNY Buffalo) hired by Grand Valley State University. AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics/Ontology.

Dwayne Tunstall (SIU Carbondale) hired by Grand Valley State University. AOS: Continental Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion.

[Scott Senn]

Scott Senn (UMass Amherst) hired by Longwood University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics. Previously tenure-track at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

[Gregory Velazco y Trianosky]

Robert Gressis (University of Michigan) hired by California State University, Northridge. AOS: Kant, Philosophy of Religion. Previously Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame.

[Paul Symington]

Paul Symington (SUNY Buffalo) hired by Franciscan University of Steubenville. AOS: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics. Previously Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco (term position).

[Robert Howell]

Matthew Lockard (UCLA) hired by Southern Methodist University, AOS: Epistemology

[John Whelan]

Douglas Young (Cornell University) hired by Lycoming College. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. Previously Bowdoin College (06-07) and Davidson College (07-08).

[Justin Jeffrey]

Justin Jeffrey (UNC Chapel Hill) hired by University of Idaho. AOS: Metaethics, Ethics, Applied Ethics. Previously Duke University (one year visiting professor).

[Adrienne Martin]

Kate Moran (University of Pennsylvania) hired by Brandeis University. AOS: Kant, Moral/Political.

[Ashby Butnor]

Eiho Baba (University of Hawaii, Manoa) hired by Furman University. AOS: Chinese Philosophy

[Ashby Butnor]

Matt MacKenzie (University of Hawaii, Manoa) hired by Colorado State University. AOS: Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind. Previously at Muhlenberg College.

[Justin McBrayer]

Justin McBrayer (University of Missouri, Columbia) hired by Fort Lewis College. AOS: Metaphysics/Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion.

[Andrew Janiak]

Avram Hiller (Duke) hired by Portland State University. AOS: M&E, Philosophy of Language, Ethics (esp. environmental). Previously Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University.

Hagop Sarkissian (Duke) hired by Baruch College, CUNY. AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Chinese philosophy.

[Jonathan Weinberg]

Joshua Alexander (Indiana) hired by Siena College. AOS: Epistemology

[Wai-hung Wong]

Joseph Hwang (UCLA) hired by California State University, Chico. AOS: Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant.