Career Outcomes
The graduate program in philosophy at Stony Brook University attracts students from all over the world and prepares them for a diverse range of careers within and beyond the academy. Below is a list of job placements for all students who were awarded a PhD through the program going back to the year 2000. Although every student granted a PhD has an entry, we are continuously in the process of updating records. Please let us know if you catch any mistakes or have any updates.
(T) = tenure or equivalent
(TT) = tenure track
(C) = continuing position
(P) = postdoc
(V) = visiting or other temporary position
(TT) = tenure track
(C) = continuing position
(P) = postdoc
(V) = visiting or other temporary position
(NP) = nonprofit work
(G) = public sector
(PS) = private sector
(O) = ongoing education
(U) = unknown or other
(G) = public sector
(PS) = private sector
(O) = ongoing education
(U) = unknown or other
(T) = tenure or equivalent • (TT) = tenure track • (C) = continuing position • (P) = postdoc • (V) = visiting or other temporary position • (NP) = nonprofit work • (G) = public sector • (PS) = private sector • (O) = ongoing education • (U) = unknown or other
| Year | Dissertation Title (Advisor) | Initial Career Outcome | Most Recent Career Outcome |
| 2026 | Identifying Classical Assumptions in Quantum Ontology (Crease) | (U) | |
| 2026 | Tractatus de Speculatione Obscura: A Logic of Speculation on some 'Dark' Objects (Cormier) | (U) | |
| 2026 | After Ressentiment: Morality, Values, and Transformation (Rawlinson) | University of Kentucky (C) | |
| 2025 | Valuing the Living: Amending Max Scheler's Value Theory for an Ethics of Flourishing (Steinbock) | (U) | |
| 2025 | A Measure of Justice: Levinas and the Problem of Responsibility (Steinbock) | (U) | |
| 2025 | Loving and the Disclosure of the Singular in the Work of John Duns Scotus (Steinbock) | (U) | |
| 2025 | A Phenomenology of Agitation Embodiment, Affect, and Sensory Overload (Steinbock) | (U) | |
| 2025 | There is a Way of Seeing the World Different (O'Byrne) | (U) | |
| 2025 | Exterminate All Rational Thought: A Proposal for Outsider Philosophy (Cormier) | (U) | |
| 2024 | Fossil Freedom: Climate Inaction and the Rise of the Individual Subject (Carravetta) |
(U) | |
| 2024 | Game Time: A Philosophical Inquiry into Digital Temporality and Memory (Casey/O'Byrne) |
Stony Brook University (V) | Georgia College & State University (V) |
| 2024 | Becoming & Resistance: Temporalities of Freedom and Oppression in Post-Foucauldian
Philosophy (O'Byrne) |
(U) | |
| 2023 | Historical Epistemology and Critique: The Question of Freedom in Neo-Kantian and Frankfurt
School Philosophies of History (Kim) |
(U) | |
| 2023 | Perceiving the Essence: A Husserlian Explication of Aristotle's Defense of Non-Contradiction
(Steinbock) |
(U) | |
| 2023 | Experimental Interactivity: From Art to Ontology and Back Again (Steinbock) |
Westfield State University (TT) | |
| 2022 | Concerning Concern: An Inquiry into Concern as a Philosophical Topic in Kant and Hegel
(O'Byrne) |
Adelphi University (V) | |
| 2022 | Wave After Wave After Wave: Redundancy and the Automation of Philosophy (Casey) |
New York University, Liberal Studies (V) | |
| 2022 | Tran-Duc-Thao and Jacques Derrida: On Critical Phenomenology and the Genesis of a
New Materialism (Casey) |
Emory University (TT) | |
| 2022 | What is the Human Being? Kant's Philosophical Anthropology of the Species (Edwards) |
University of Oslo (P) | University of Fribourg (P) |
| 2022 | The Impossible Dialectic: Existence and the Antinomies of Time (Rawlinson) |
University of Kentucky (C) | University of Kentucky (TT) |
| 2022 | The Philosopher's Rescue (Miller) |
St. John's College, Annapolis (TT) | |
| 2021 | Attentive Receptivity in Perceptual Play: A Phenomenology of Creative Spectatorship (Casey) | Senior Consultant & Manager at CGI Tech and Solutions (PS) | |
| 2021 | Belonging in Place: A Critical Account of Cosmopolitanism and its World(s) (Casey) | New York University, Liberal Studies (P) | |
| 2021 | From Animation to Activation: Improvisational Dance as Invitation and as Interruption (Craig) | New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies (C) | Rowan University, College of the Arts (C) |
| 2020 | Agency, Responsibility, and the Limits of Sexual Consent (Craig) | Free University of Berlin (V) | University of Hamburg (P) |
| 2020 | From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs (De Laurentiis) | (U) | |
| 2020 | Touching the Text, the Touching Texts: The Carnal Hermeneutics of Reading (Casey/O'Byrne) | Hitit University of Turkey (P) | Hitit University of Turkey (T) |
| 2020 | Autonomy, Perfection, and God's Will in Kant and the German Enlightenment (Edwards) | University of Scranton (TT) | |
| 2020 | Bearing with: An Intersubjective Ethics and Politics of Durational Trauma (Casey) | Marymount Manhattan College (P) | Louisiana State University (TT) |
| 2020 | Peer Review: Objectivity, Anonymity, Trust (Crease) |
Associate Editor at Physical Review Letters (NP) | Head of Ethics and Research Integrity at the American Physical Society (NP) |
| 2020 | Politics of the Duly Measured: Reading Plato's Statesman Through the Fourfold Division
(Miller) |
The College at Old Westbury (V) | |
| 2020 | War & Responsibility: A Political Phenomenology (O'Byrne) |
Inver Hills Community College (C) | |
| 2019 | The Event of Mind (Casey) |
St. Johns University (TT) | |
| 2018 | Queer Spirit: From Marxist-Hegelian Humanism to Decolonial Politics (Rawlinson) |
Albion College (V) |
Babson College (TT) |
| 2018 | Touch and Caress in the Work of Luce Irigaray (Casey) |
Stony Brook University (C) |
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| 2018 | Emotion as First Philosophy (Casey/O'Byrne) |
Santa Monica College (TT) |
Santa Monica College (T) |
| 2017 | Panorama and Proximity in Levinas and the Stoics (O'Byrne) |
Software Engineer (PS) |
Server (PS) |
| 2017 | White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility (Mendieta/O'Byrne) |
Rowan University (TT) |
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| 2017 | Empowerment Respect, Self-Respect, and Political Liberalism (Kittay) |
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (TT) |
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (T) |
| 2017 | Once Again from the Beginning: On the Relationship of Skepticism and Philosophy in
Hegel's System (De Laurentiis) |
Florida Gulf Coast University (TT) |
Florida Gulf Coast University (T) |
| 2016 | Ecological Ethics and Embodiment in Levinas (Casey) |
University of King's College (P) |
St. John's College, Santa Fe (TT) |
| 2016 | The Specter of Spinoza: The Legacy of the Pantheism Controversy in Hegel's Thought
(De Laurentiis) |
St. John's University (V) |
St. John's University (TT) |
| 2016 | Empathy's Contribution to Moral Knowledge: Cultivating Agency under Conditions of
Social Inequality (Mendieta/Kittay) |
Texas State University (TT) |
Texas State University (T) |
| 2016 | Defusing Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze, Hume, and Empiricism (Casey) |
Brooklyn College & William Paterson University (V) |
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| 2015 | Time, or the Idea of the Good (Casey) |
Old Dominion University (V) |
Kent State University (TT) |
| 2015 | Body and Horizon: Kant, Husserl, and the Nonconceptual Content of Experience (Welton) |
Purchase College, SUNY (TT) |
Purchase College, SUNY (T) |
| 2015 | The Value of Habit: On Skillful Knowhow as a Source of Resilience, Resistance Against
Social Injustice, and Positive Social Transformation (Craig) |
Gettysburg College (TT) |
Gettysburg College (T) |
| 2015 | Living the Past: Bergson, Proust, Deleuze, and Nietzsche on Memory and the Self (Casey/Craig) |
CEO at Grace Institute (NP) |
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| 2015 | The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of the Lived Experience of Racism and Racialised
Embodiment (Casey/O'Byrne) |
Monash University (P) |
Deakin University (C) |
| 2015 | Hermeneutic Privacy: On Identity, Agency, and Information (Mendieta) |
New York University, Information Law Institute (P) |
Cornell University, Department of Information Sciences (T) |
| 2015 | Vulnerability's Demands: Need and the Relational Self (Kittay) |
St. Lawrence University (TT) |
St. Lawrence University (T) |
| 2014 | Democracy and Its Others (Mendieta) | Palomar College (TT) | Palomar College (T) |
| 2014 | Questionable Form: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Philosophy and Literature (Rawlinson) | Texas A&M University (TT) | Texas A&M University (T) |
| 2014 | Propaedeutic to Philosophy: Dialogue and Truth in Philosophical Practice (Casey) | Educator at DSST Public Schools (G) | |
| 2014 | How to Perform a Democracy: A Genealogy of the Bare Voice (Casey) | Farmingdale State College, SUNY (TT) | Pratt Institute (V) |
| 2014 | The Placiality of Thought (Casey) | Seattle University (V) | John Jay College, CUNY (V) |
| 2014 | The Policing of Self and Others: Foucault, Political Reason & a Critical Ontology of Police (Mendieta) | Morgan State University (V) | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TT) |
| 2014 | The Substance of Health: Aristotle, Deleuze and Guattari on the Dynamic Materiality of the Living Body (Casey) | Universidad Industrial de Santander (T | |
| 2013 | Emotion: The Animation of Value (Welton) | Elon University (V) | University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Honors College (C) |
| 2013 | Reconstructing Rationality: A Hermeneutic Alternative to Evidentialism (Mar) | St. Joseph University (V) | Holy Family University (T) |
| 2013 | Things that Happen: Husserl's Theory of Judgment and the Problem of Events (Welton) | Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (TT) | |
| 2013 | From Confusion to Chiasm: Descartes's Influence on Merleau-Ponty's Philosophical Project (Casey) | Content Supervisor at ProQuest (PS) | |
| 2013 | Creating Safe Spaces: Bergson, Affirmation and the Constitution of LGBTQ Identity (Casey) | Director of National Projects at SAGE (PS) | |
| 2013 | Latour as Philosopher: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Critique for Innovative Science and Sociology (Casey) | Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Sociology (O) | INSHEA (P) |
| 2012 | Postmetaphysical Reason and Postsecular Consciousness: Habermas' Analysis of Religion in the Public Sphere (Mendieta) | Universidad Industrial de Santander (TT) | Universidad Industrial de Santander (T) |
| 2012 | Wisdom, Pedagogy, and the Erotic Structure in the Pursuit of Knowledge (Manchester) | Northern Arizona University (C) | |
| 2012 | Monism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Toleration: An Analysis of Spinoza's Rationalist Political Philosophy (Mendieta) | St. Johns University (TT) | Florida Gulf Coast University (T) |
| 2012 | Anonymity and Ambiguity in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology (Casey) | Loyola University Maryland (V) | La Salle University (T) |
| 2012 | The Kinesthetic Basis of Landscape Art (Casey) | Author (PS) | |
| 2012 | Models, Fictions, and Make-Believe: Fictional Modeling and Simulation in Scientific Practice (Ihde) | University of North Carolina, Greensboro (C) | |
| 2012 | Pluralism, Democracy, and the 'Empty Place of Power': Using Lefort's Political Theory (Howard) | Stony Brook University, Medicine (TT) | Director of Engineering at Capital One (PS) |
| 2011 | Ethics of World Citizens: Kantian Cosmopolitanism (Simpson) | Suffolk County Community College (C) |
St. Joseph University (C) |
| 2011 | The Retroactive Temporality of Subjectivity (Rawlinson) | Hofstra University & John Jay College (V) | Senior Publisher at Oxford University Press (PS) |
| 2011 | Disorders of Schizophrenic Embodiment: A Phenomenological Investigation (Casey) | Heidelberg University (P) | Misericordia University (TT) |
| 2010 | An Unconditioned Will: The Role of Temporality in Freedom and Agency (Ihde) | Marymount Manhattan College (V) | Kutztown University (C) |
| 2010 | Know Thyself: Plato's Alcibiades I and the Foundation of Philosophical Knowing (Miller) | King's College (TT) | King's College (T) |
| 2010 | What We Can Intend: Recognition and Collective Intentionality (Howard) | University of Texas at El Paso (TT) | Tulane University (T) |
| 2010 | The Ethics and Politics of Habitual Bodies: Original Sin, Authenticity, and the Problem of Moral Responsibility (Casey) | Concordia University (V) | California State University, Fullerton (T) |
| 2010 | Philosophy's Polis: The Place of Europe in Husserl's Critique of Reason (Welton) | Sacred Heart University (TT) | Sacred Heart University (T) |
| 2010 | Corporealities: From the Logic of Expression Towards an Ethics of Bodies in Merleau-Ponty (Casey/Silverman) | McGill University (P) | Universite Laval (T) |
| 2010 | Between Emerson and Unamuno: The Ethics of Solitude and the Value of Society for the Individual (Silverman) | American University of Cairo (P) | Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas (C) |
| 2010 | The Doctrine of Self-positing and Receptivity in Kant's Late Philosophy (Casey) | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TT) | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (T) |
| 2010 | Matter and Motion in Kant's Philosophy of Science (Casey) | Concordia University (V) | Boise State University (C) |
| 2010 | Decolonize philosophy/being life: The power of discourse in Western and Africanist epistemologies (Casey) | New York University, Steinhardt (V) |