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Placement

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. eran.tal [at] mcgill.ca (Eran Tal), who maintains the placement data.

Last updated: June 20, 2022

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			The Gaze of the Mind: Cognitive Activity, Attention, and Causal Explanation in 13th-14th Century Latin Medieval Psychology	Stephen Menn, Calvin Normore
Moritz Bodner			Hilbert’s early foundational work, 1890-1920	Dirk Schlimm, Michael Hallett

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	Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Philosophy, Wofford College	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	Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Australian National University	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	Postdoctoral Scholar, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State 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	FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Toronto	The trouble about moral facts	Sarah Stroud
Maxwell Ramstead	Douglas Utting Postdoctoral Fellow, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal	CEO of Nested Minds Network, 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, Collège 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, Ian Gold
David Weinkauf		Senior Policy and Technology Advisor, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario	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

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