Philosophy

In addition to entering postgraduate programs in philosophy, students graduating from Macalester’s philosophy program typically follow a wide variety of career paths, including the Peace Corps, law school, medical school and school teaching. Listed to the right are a few examples of the careers of Macalester Philosophy alumni/nae.

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Macalester graduates currently in philosophy graduate programs

Nena Davis, is attending the Ph.D. program at U.N.C. at Chapel Hill.
http://philosophy.unc.edu/davis.html

Marc Johansen '02 is attending the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Andrew Alvin Johnson '02 is attending the Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Ryan Long '99 "Ryan Long '99 (Green Bay, WI) is in the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Chicago."

David Sackris '06 received his M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He hopes to continue on to a Ph.D. program.

Greg Taylor ‘07 is attending the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Stanford.

Michael McNulty ’08 is attending the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

Joseph Reich '08 is in PhD program in Philosophy at Ohio State.

Miroslav Losonsky '09 attending the University of North Carolina, phD program in philosophy.

Macalester graduates currently holding academic positions in philosophy departments

Laurence Bonjour
Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969. He is currently professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington.
http://www.phil.washington.edu/people_bonjour.htm

Jennifer Church
Received her her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is currently Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
http://faculty.vassar.edu/church/

Richard Galvin
Received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983 and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Holder of the Betty Wright Chair in Applied Ethics.
http://faculty.tcu.edu/rgalvin/

Keith Gunderson
Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently Professor of Philosophy (emeritus) at the University of Minnesota.
http://www.philosophy.umn.edu/people/faculty/gunderson.html

Martin Gunderson
Received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently DeWitt Wallace Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College.
http://www.macalester.edu/philosophy/gunderson.html

Douglas Jesseph
Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1987 and is currently Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dmjphi/

Mark Kulstad
Received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1975 and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Rice University.
http://cohesion.rice.edu/humanities/phil/faculty.cfm?doc_id=839

Jennifer Susse
Received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University.
https://www.msu.edu/~phl/faculty/profs/susse.htm

Anthony Weston
Received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and Chair, Department of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina.
http://org.elon.edu/philosophy/

David Wong
Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University 1977. He is currently Professor and Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/dbwong

Macalester graduates pursuing other career paths

Carolyn Jean Gonter '04 attends the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Masha Marchevsky '04 is studying law at the University of Minnesota.

Nicholas Napolitan '04 is studying law at Columbia University.

Thomas Noonan '01 is an analyst at Accenture.

Michael Rolig '02 is a software design engineer at Hewlett-Packard.

Robert Rosenthal '98 graduated from Duke University Law School in 2003.

Carly Martin '07 (Milwaukee, Wis) is teaching in Munich, Germany and completing masters from University of Western Ontario.

Emily Ayoob '07 (New York, NY) pursuing a J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

Anna Zalusky '01 manages The Bookpress in River Falls, Wis.

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