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.
| 2012 | ||
| Saba Fatima | "The Political Muslim American" (Tessman) | SIU Edwardsville (TT) |
| 2011 | ||
| Valerie Saint-Amand | "Assuming Nature: The Conception of Human Nature in Modern Philosophy" (Bar On) | |
| Sean Johnston | "John Stuart Mill and the Ethical Work of Character: Reading On Liberty as an Aesthetic Manual" (Bar On) | |
| Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca | "Homelessness and Homemaking" (Bar On) | Mardin Artuklu University |
| Sean Cummings | "The Dependency Contract: Ideal Theory and the Problem of Political Aporia" (Tessman) | |
| Edgar Valdez | "Pre-Postulate A Priori Intuition: Revisiting Kant's Account of Space" (Guay) | Seton Hall (postdoc) |
| Lew Trelwany-Cassity | "Plato's Legislative Demiurgy: A Study of the Laws" (Preus) | Antioch College (TT) |
| 2010 | ||
| Joshua Wretzel | "Speaking with the Dead: the Philosophical Implications of Brandom's Interpretive Oversights" (Guay) | Penn State; prev. Central Washington |
| Selin Gürsözlü | "Virtues and Flourishing Oppression" (Tessman) | Villanova (postdoc); prev. Grand Valley State University |
| Shay Welch | "Social Freedom: Choice, Consent, Commitment, and Trust" (Bar On) | Spelman College (TT); prev. Williams College (postdoc) |
| Fuat Gürsözlü | "The Problem of Peaceful Political Action with Democratic Politics" (Bar On) | Loyola University Maryland (TT); prev. Dalhousie University (1yr) |
| 2009 | ||
| Monica Mueller | "An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Thought and Action: Interpreting Phronesis" (Tessman) | Capital University (TT); prev. Ohio University |
| 2008 | ||
| Jason Mallory | "Prisoner Oppression, Democratic Crises, Abolitionist Visions" | Brooklyn College (CUNY)(TT); prev. Estrella Mountain College |
| 2007 | ||
| Howard Engelskirchen | The Aristotelian Marx and Scientific Realism (Preus) | Iowa State (1yr) |
| 2006 | ||
| Desiree Melton |
"Existential Disappointment: A Sociopolitical Theory of Black Visibility" |
College of Notre Dame of Maryland (TT) |
| Michael Winkley | "Strang: A Model of Analogical Conceptual Change" | Research Scientist, Griffiss Air Force Base |
| 2005 | ||
| Jane Drexler | "Politics Improper: Radical Democratic Feminist Political Theory, Hannah Arendt, and the Political Importance of the Inappropriate" | Salt Lake City Community College (TT) |
| 2004 | ||
| Christal Frakes |
"The Virtue of Compassion: Responding to Suffering with Equanimity" |
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
| Shalahudin Kafrawi | "Supreme Being in the Islamic Intellectual Tradition" | Moravian College (TT) |
| 2003 | ||
| Camila De Gamboa | "Forgiveness and Political Reconciliation for Transitional Democracies" | School of Law, Rosario University, Bogotá (TT) |
| 2002 | ||
| Etin Anwar | "Gender and Self in Islam: A Philosophical Interpretation" | Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith (TT) |
| Diane Enns | "Emancipatory Desire and the Struggle for Liberation: Freedom and Politics in Question" | McMaster University (TT)(T) |
| Coeli Fitzpatrick | "Galen’s Necessary Causes in Medieval Islamic Sources" | Grand Valley State University (TT) |
| James Sheppard | "Urban Environmental Ethics: Toward Flourishing Human and Ecological Communities" | University of Missouri, Kansas City (TT) |
