The Department offers assistance to students in every aspect of placement. Our Placement Officer counsels students about coursework and areas of competence, helps to establish evidence of teaching ability, administers the dossier for job applications and provides advice and follow-up in the interview process. Placement assistance is also offered to graduate alumni.
The main components of the placement service are:
- Job Seekers' Workshop. This is a 12-week seminar that takes place every winter, where students who are preparing to go on the academic job market for the first time prepare drafts of their application materials and receive feedback and advice. The workshop is taught by the Placement Officer, with several other faculty members acting as guest speakers.
- Practice job talks and practice job interviews are given during the fall term by graduate students and recent graduate alumni who are going on the academic job market for the first time.
- Dossier service. Graduate students and recent graduate alumni have the option of having their reference letters sent to Mr. Andrew Stoten, who submits them to potential employers. Reference letters undergo a quality and consistency check by the Placement Officer.
- Professional development sessions for current PhD students are held on an ad hoc basis. These cover a variety of topics, such as how to find a postdoc and how to write an effective teaching dossier.
- Individual consultation is available to PhD students on issues related to career planning and job search.
Below, our graduates are listed by the year of their graduation. (LTA) stands for limited term appointment, (tt) for tenure track, and (t) for tenured. For updates and corrections, please contact our Placement Officer, Prof. chris.howard [at] mcgill.ca (Chris Howard), who maintains the placement data.
Last updated: September 25, 2023
Recent dissertations can be obtained through McGill's eScholarship portal.
2022
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Douglas | Instructor, Humanities, Vanier College; and Individualized Tutor, Philosophy, Athabasca University | Instructor, Humanities, Vanier College; and Individualized Tutor, Philosophy, Athabasca University | Sick of it: psychosomatic and sociogenic illness in feminist philosophy of disability | Alia Al-Saji, Alanna Thain |
| André Martin | Lecturer, Philosophy, McGill University | JUNIOR Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Charles University | The Gaze of the Mind: Cognitive Activity, Attention, and Causal Explanation in 13th-14th Century Latin Medieval Psychology | Stephen Menn, Calvin Normore |
| Moritz Bodner | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute Vienna Circle, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute Vienna Circle, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna | Hilbert’s early foundational work, 1890-1920 | Dirk Schlimm, Michael Hallett |
| Em Walsh | Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University | Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University | Madness, Marginalization, & Memory: The Relational and Personal Harms of Feeling "Stuck in Time" | Ian Gold, Natalie Stoljar |
| Alice Everly | Revitalizing normativity: A conceptual framework for social justice projects | Alia Al-Saji, Hasana Sharp, Mary Beth Mader | ||
| Celia Edell | FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of British Columbia | FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of British Columbia | Guilt, Blame, and Oppression: A Feminist Philosophy of Scapegoating | Alia Al-Saji, Natalie Stoljar |
| Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre | Guest Researcher, Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University | Guest Researcher, Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University | Cosmopolitanism and Social Equality: Moving Beyond Deontic Relational Egalitarianism | Kristin Voigt, Natalie Stoljar |
| Yasmin Haddad | Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University | FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal | Beyond the Divide: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary-Developmental Biology | Eran Tal, Ehab Abouheif |
| Thomas Colbourne | The Joy and Sorrow of Believing: Spinoza on Affect, Power, and Belief | Hasana Sharp, Carlos Fraenkel |
2021
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Coughlin | Course Author, Religious Studies, Laurentian University and University of Sudbury | Instructor, College of the Humanities, Carleton University | Realizing Wisdom and Compassion Through Nishitani’s Notion of the Emptiness in Affect | George di Giovanni, Thomas Lamarre |
| David Collins | SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oxford | SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oxford | Expression, Creation, and Discovery: a Synthesized Processual Account of Art and its Cognitive, Moral, and Social Value | David Davies, Alia Al-Saji |
| Muhammad Velji | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Philosophy, Wofford College | Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Wesleyan University | The philosophy of piety: How Muslim women who veil allow us to rethink automaticity, agency, adaptive preferences, and autonomy | Alia Al-Saji, Daniel Weinstock |
|
Renxiang Liu |
Shui-Mu Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Tsinghua University | Shui-Mu Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Tsinghua University | Meaning Takes Time to Unfold : Towards a Heideggerian Ontology of Temporal Differentiation | Philip Buckley, George di Giovanni |
2020
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Éliot Litalien |
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Australian National University |
Coordinator and Researcher, Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), Université de Montréal | Group Agency, Interference and Domination: Renewed Normative Grounds for Collective Rights | Natalie Stoljar, Daniel Weinstock |
| Nicholas Dunn | Academic Programs Officer, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, McGill University | Klemens von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Studies and Philosophy, Bard College | What is orientation in judgment?: an essay on Kant's theory of Urteilskraft | Emily Carson, William Roberts, Anthony Bruno |
| Martina Orlandi | Instructor, Philosophy, St Mary's University, Nova Scotia | Assistant Professor (LTA), Philosophy, Trent University | Undeceiving Ourselves: An Inquiry into Self-Undeception | Sarah Stroud, Ian Gold |
| Mathieu Baril | Program Advisor - Editing, Employment and Social Development Canada | Program Advisor - Editing, Employment and Social Development Canada | A Non-Causal Account of Agential Control | Natalie Stoljar, Christine Tappolet |
2019
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Scarfone | Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (LTA), Philosophy, University of Toronto | The trouble about moral facts | Sarah Stroud |
| Maxwell Ramstead | Douglas Utting Postdoctoral Fellow, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal | Director of Research at VERSES, and Honorary Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London | Have we lost our minds? An approach to multiscale dynamics in the cognitive sciences | Ian Gold, Laurence Kirmayer |
| Nicole Ramsoomair | Assistant Professor (LTA), Philosophy, Dalhousie University | Assistant Professor (LTA), Philosophy, Dalhousie University | Transformation and Exoneration: Exploring Responsibility Attribution Over Time | Natalie Stoljar |
| Frédérick Armstrong | Co-Chairholder of the Unesco Chair in Applied Research for Education in Prison, Collège Marie-Victorin, Montreal | Co-Chairholder of the Unesco Chair in Applied Research for Education in Prison, Cégep Marie-Victorin, Montreal | Minoritization and Vulnerability : New Foundations for a Non-Ideal Theory of Multiculturalism | Natalie Stoljar, Daniel Weinstock |
| Charlotte Sabourin | SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia | Instructor, Philosophy, Douglas College | Can she think for herself? Kant on women and enlightenment | Emily Carson, Marguerite Deslauriers |
| Joseph Carew | Faculty Member (LTA), Philosophy, University of the Fraser Valley | Faculty Member (LTA), Philosophy, University of the Fraser Valley | Hegel’s anthropological conception of logic | George di Giovanni, Hasana Sharp |
2018
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Emann Allebban |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Providence College |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Providence College |
Conservation and Causation in Avicenna's Metaphysics. |
Stephen Menn |
2017
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Karina Vold |
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cambridge University |
Assistant Professor (tt), Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto |
Location, Location, Location: On the metaphysical commitments of the extended mind thesis |
David Davies, Ian Gold |
|
Michel- Antoine Xhignesse |
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia |
Instructor, Philosophy, Capilano University |
Attempting Art: an essay on intention-dependence |
David Davies, Michael Blome-Tillmann |
| Maiya Jordan | Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-2018 Dept of Psychiatry McGill | British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Cambridge | Self-Awareness and Self-Deception | Alia Al-Saji, David Davies, Ian Gold |
| Joseph Van Weelden | Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Ahmedabad University | Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Ahmedabad University | The Disjunctive Hybrid Theory of Prudential Value: An Inclusive Approach to the Good Life | Sarah Stroud, Iwao Hirose |
2016
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Sych | Lecturer, Humanities, Vanier College |
Lecturer, Humanities, John Abbott College |
The Genial Education of Genius in German Idealism and Early Romanticism |
George di Giovanni, Hasana Sharp |
2015
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bruno Guindon |
Lecturer, Philosophy, University of British Columbia |
Lecturer, Philosophy, Simon Fraser University |
Rationality Has Its Reasons, Of Which Reason Knows Not: A Vindication of the Normativity of Rationality |
Sarah Stroud, Andrew Reisner |
|
Zoli Filotas |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Carleton College |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, University of South Dakota |
Aristotle on Rule in Personal Relationships |
Marguerite Deslauriers, Stephen Menn |
|
Amy Barnes |
PhD student, Anthropology, McGill |
PhD student, Anthropology, McGill |
Authenticity and the Ascetic Self |
Alia Al-Saji, |
|
David Weinkauf |
|
Senior IT Research Analyst, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada |
Heidegger and the Future of Thinking: An Investigation into the Meaning of the Historical Epoch of Post-Modernity |
Phil Buckley |
2014
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Robert Stephens |
Lecturer, Philosophy, Dawson College |
Lecturer, Philosophy, Dawson College |
Framing the Web: Cognitive Modularity and the Limits of Belief Revision |
Ian Gold |
2013
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Shiloh Whitney |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Fordham University |
Associate Professor (t), Philosophy, Fordham University |
Affect and Difference in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty |
Alia Al-Saji |
|
Oran Magal |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, McGill University |
Lecturer, Philosophy, McGill University |
What is Mathematical about Mathematics? |
Michael Hallett, Dirk Schlimm |
|
Elodie Boublil |
United Nations School, New York |
Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Köln University |
Individuation et vision du monde: enquête sur l’héritage ontologique de la phénoménologie |
|
|
Donald Beith |
Lecturer, Bishop’s University |
Assistant Professor (tt) University of Maine |
Passivity in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty |
Alia Al-Saji, David Morris (Concordia) |
|
Yvan Tétreault |
Collège St. Anne |
Collège St. Anne |
It’s All In Your Head: A Defense of Idealism in the Ontology of Musical Works |
David Davies, Andrew Reisner |
2012
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Olivier Mathieu |
Lecturer, Concordia University and Université de Montréal |
Lecturer, Collège de Valleyfield |
La créativité artistique; une approche phénoménologique |
David Davies |
|
Anna Ezekiel |
Lecturer, Trent University |
Independent Researcher |
Death, community, myth: Novalis' and Nietzsche's figures of immanent affirmation |
Philip Buckley |
2011
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Rafael Najera |
Lecturer, Grant MacEwan University |
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Digital Averroes Research Environment, Thomas-Institut, University of Köln |
Scientia in Latin West Philosophy |
Calvin Normore, Carlos Fraenkel |
|
Erik Stephenson |
Lecturer, Carleton University |
Lecturer (t), Carleton University |
Spinoza and the Ethics of Political Resistance |
Hasana Sharp, Calvin Normore |
|
Brian Redekopp |
Dawson College |
Dawson College |
Limits of Thought and Husserl’s Phenomenology |
Alia Al-Saji, Philip Buckley |
2010
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sara Magrin |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, UQAM |
Associate Professor (t), Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh |
Plotinus’ Epistemology and his Reading of the Theaetetus |
Stephen Menn, Richard Bodeus |
2009
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Florentien Verhage |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Washington & Lee University |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, Washington & Lee University |
The Rhythm of Embodied Encounters: Intercorporeality and Difference in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology |
Alia Al-Saji, Philip Buckley |
|
Anna Carasthathis |
Postdoctoral Fellow, CRÉUM |
Assistant Professor (tt), Philosophy, California State University Los Angeles |
Feminism and the political economy of representation: intersectionality, invisibility and embodiment |
Marguerite Deslauriers, Hasana Sharp |
2007
| Name | Initial Placement | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Matthew Grist |
Research Fellow, Essex University |
Senior Researcher, DEMOS |
Kant and the Problem of Intentionality |
George Di Giovanni, David Davies |
|
Pierre Charette |
Lecturer, East Carolina University |
Instructor, CÉGÈP Regional de Lanaudière à Joliette |
Nature, Reasons, and Moral Meaningfulness |
Jeff Speaks |
|
Mohamed Mehdi |
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Philosophy, Oakton Community College |
Professor (t), Humanities and Philosophy, Oakton Community College |
The Political Dimension of the Contemplative Life: Engagement and Disengagement in Plato, Seneca, and Gandhi |
Stephen Menn, Alan Patten |
|
Steve McKay |
Instructor, CÉGÈP de Sherbrooke |
Instructor, CÉGÈP de Sherbrooke |
Biological Rationalism |
Jim McGilvray |