Promotions 2013-2014
It’s spring and many colleges and universities have announced, or will soon announce, who has received promotion to associate or full professor. If you have received a promotion in rank during the 2013-2014 year, or you are in a position to make announcements about who in your department has done so, please list that information below.
Use the following format:
Example College has promoted Firstname Lastname (PhD, Degree Granting Institution) to associate/full/? professor. AOS.
Congratulations to those promoted!
Saint Louis University has promoted Jonathan D. Jacobs (PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington) to associate professor. Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion.
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee has promoted Blain Neufeld (PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) to associate professor. Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Action.
Arizona State University has promoted Doug Portmore (PhD, UC Santa Barbara) to full professor. Ethics.
Middlebury College has promoted Lorraine Besser-Jones (PhD, UNC) to associate professor. Moral Psychology, Ethics.
Siena College has promoted Joshua Alexander (PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington) to Associate Professor. Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Experimental Philosophy.
Pittsburg State University has promoted James McBain (PhD, University of Missouri) to Associate Professor. Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphilosophy
University of British Columbia has promoted Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (PhD, Cambridge) to Full Professor. Epistemology, Metaphysics.
Dickinson College has promoted Chauncey Maher (PhD, Georgetown) to Associate Professor.
Wake Forest University has promoted Christian B. Miller (Ph.D., Notre Dame) to Full Professor. Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Religion.
Spring Hill College has promoted Michael Ferry (PhD, Georgetown) to Associate Professor. Ethics, Political Philosophy.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges Philosophy Department and the University of Wisconsin–Washington County has promoted Tait Szabo (PhD Univerity of Colorado–Boulder) to Associate Professor. AOS: Ethics.
Texas A&M has promoted Benjamin McMyler (PhD Chicago) to Associate Professor. Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind.
The University of Miami has promoted Eli Chudnoff (Ph.D. Harvard) to Associate Professor. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind.
The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) is promoting Roy Cook (PhD, Ohio State University) from Associate Professor to Professor, effective AY ’14-’15. Logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the aesthetics of popular media, especially graphic novels (comics).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has promoted Michael Titelbaum (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley) to Associate Professor. AOS: Epistemology, Ethics, Logic.
Northern Michigan University is promoting Zac Cogley (PhD, The Ohio State University) to Associate Professor, effective AY ’14-’15. Ethics, Agency Theory, Philosophy and Psychology of Emotion, Social and Political Philosophy.
The University of California, San Diego is promoting David Brink to the position of Distinguished Professor, effective AY 14-15. David works in ethics, history of ethics, and philosophy of law.
Purdue University has promoted to Full Professor: Jeffrey Brower (PhD, University of Iowa, AOS: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion) and Daniel Smith (PhD, University of Chicago, AOS: Deleuze, Contemporary European Philosophy).
The University of Memphis has promoted Stephan Blatti (D.Phil, Oxford University) to Associate Professor and Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities. Metaphysics, etc.
Scripps College, Claremont, has promoted Yuval Avnur to Associate Professor (PhD. NYU; Epistemology).
The University of Rochester has promoted William FitzPatrick (Ph.D, UCLA) to Full Professor. (Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Biology)
The University of California at Riverside has promoted Coleen Macnamara (Ph.D., Georgetown University) to Associate Professor (with tenure). AOS: ethics, moral psychology.
Drake University has promoted Martin Roth (Ph.D., UC Davis) to Associate Professor (AOS: philosophy of mind).
Drake University has promoted Jennifer McCrickerd (Ph.D., Washington University) to full Professor (AOS: ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of education).
Penn State University, New Kensington has promoted Donald Bruckner (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) to Associate Professor. Ethics.
Florida Institute of Technology has promoted Andrew Aberdein (Ph.D., University of St Andrews) to full professor. (AOS: argumentation theory; logic; philosophy of mathematics).
Whitman College has promoted Julia Ireland (PhD, DePaul) to Associate Professor (with tenure). Congratulations Julia!
Virginia Union University has promoted Peter Sutton (PhD, Cornell) to associate professor. AOS philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Texas Tech University has promoted Christopher Hom (PhD, UC Irvine) to associate professor. (AOS: philosophy of language; metaethics)
Georgia State University has promoted Eddy Nahmias (PhD, Duke) to Full Professor. AOS: Moral Psychology (free will and responsibility), Philosophy of Mind/Neuroscience, Experimental Philosophy.
University of Manitoba has promoted Esa Diaz-Leon (PhD, Sheffield) to Associate Professor. AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy of Gender and Race.
Ohio State University promoted Timothy Schroeder to Professor. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology.
Durham University has promoted Thom Brooks (PhD, Sheffield) to full professor with a Chair in Law and Government. Areas: Political and Legal Philosophy (and other topics in Law and Political Science).
Ohio State University promoted Kevin Scharp (Pittsburgh, 2005) to full professor. AOS: philosophy of language, logic, history of analytic philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of science.
Montclair State University has promoted Tiger Roholt (Columbia) to Associate Professor. AOS: Philosophy of Art, Continental Philosophy.
University of Bristol has promoted Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) to full professor. AOS: formal epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, logic.