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: 

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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.
  4. 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. 
  5. 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: March 2, 2024

Recent dissertations can be obtained through McGill's eScholarship portal.

2023

Name Initial Placement Current Position Dissertation Title Advisor(s)
Léa Derome SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Toronto SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Toronto Aristotle on blood and cognition Marguerite Deslauriers, Stephen Menn

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 Instructor, Philosophy, Capilano University Instructor, Philosophy, Capilano University 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 Assistant Professor (tt), Religious Studies and Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland 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

Regular 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

Associate Professor (t), 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 University

Authenticity and the Ascetic Self

Alia Al-Saji,
Ian Gold

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

Marie Curie Fellow, Archives Husserl CNRS-ENS Associate Professor (t), Philosophy, University of Paris Est Créteil 

Individuation et vision du monde: enquête sur l’héritage ontologique de la phénoménologie

 

Donald Beith

Lecturer, Bishop’s University

Associate Professor (t), 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

JD student, Université de Montréal

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

Associate Professor (t), Teaching Stream, Carleton University

Spinoza and the Ethics of Political Resistance

Hasana Sharp, Calvin Normore

Brian Redekopp

Lecturer, Philosophy, Dawson College Lecturer, Philosophy, 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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