
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 |
| Monica Mueller | 2009 |
An Inquiry into the Relationship Betwween Thought and Action; Interpreting Phronesis |
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| Jason Mallory | 2008 | Prisioner Oppression, Democratic Crises, Abolitionisst Visions: Toward a Social and Political Philosophy of Mass Incarcenation | ||
| Howard Engelskirchen |
2007 |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Christal Frakes |
2004 |
The Virtue of Compassion: Responding to Suffering with Equanimity |
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Clayton Morrison |
1999 |
Situated Representation: Solving the Handcoding Problem with Emergent, Structured Representation |
Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California |
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| Rose Paradis |
1999 |
An Automated Auditor: Hybrid Architectures and the Brittleness Problem |
Senior Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin |
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| Joseph Lewandowsky |
1997 |
The Constellation of Culture: On Method and Truth in Critical Social Theory |
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Central Missouri State University |
Tenured |