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2025

Italo Alves, PhD

• Dissertation Title: The Social Aesthetics of Recognition
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Joy Gordon

Miguel Ceron Becerra, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Migrant Domestic Workers as Disposable Kin in Global Capitalism’s Care Economy
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Johanna Oksala

Thomas E. Crosby, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Into the Language Barrier: An Analysis of the Debates of Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas with Concentration on the Importance of Philosophy of Language
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

LaChanda Davis, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Philosophical Purification as Liberation and Transformation
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

R. Andrew Krema, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Valuation. A Husserlian Account
• Dissertation Directors: Dr. Johanna Oksala and Dr. Sebastian Luft (Paderborn University)

Rebecca Valeriano Flores, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Critical Philosophy, Crisis, and Joy: A Theory and Praxis
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

2024

Nathan Berthiaume, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Embodied Freedom: Nietzsche on Agency, Health, and Value
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

Gina Elizabeth Lebkuecher, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Reconceiving Virtue: A Mengzian Adaptation of Eudaimonic Virtue Ethics in Response to Contemporary Criticisms
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Joseph Vukov

Kimberly Vargas Barreto, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Liberating Bioethics through Agape: A Feminist Perspective from the Periphery
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jennifer Parks

2023

Philip William Bauchan, PhD

• Dissertation Title: A Social Ontological Account of Alienation and Its Place in the History of Alienation Theory
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

Abram Capone, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Play On; Give Me Excess of It: Intercorporeality and Musical Definitions
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Joseph Vukov

Anthony Gudwien, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Reconstructing the Kantian Ends of Reason: Holiness Analytically Entailing Beatitude in an Eternal Highest Good
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello

Ciaran Folliard Rhys, PhD

• Dissertation Title: The Ethics of Advance Care Planning
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jennifer Parks

2022

Philipa Friedman, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Knowledge and Political Interest: Politico-Epistemic Injustice in the United States Under Capitalist Democracy
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

Claire Abbott Lockard, PhD

• Dissertation Title: On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

Alec Stubbs, PhD

• Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Capitalism in the Digital Age, Economic Democracy, and the Case for the Digital Commons
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

2021

Jacob Joseph Andrews, PhD

• Dissertation Title: William of Auxerre and Thomas Aquinas on Simultaneous Faith and Knowledge
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Blake Dutton

Katherine Brichacek, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Refuting the Single Story of Political Action in Hannah Arendt: Navigating Arendt's Eurocentrism and anti-Black Racism
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

Randolph Jay Carlson, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Political Justificationism: A More Realistic Epistemology of Political Disagreement
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

Clinton Neptune, PhD

• Dissertation Title: God as Rescuer
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser