Former students

University of Maryland

Cindy Phillips Dissertation: “The Nature of Governmental Authority” (2019).

Michael Zenz Dissertation: “Public Opinion, Preference Instability and Democratic Theory” (2015, co-director: Eric Pacuit). Position: Policy and Planning Analyst, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Aaron Hoitink Dissertation: “Global Justice as Fairness: Non-domination, Human Rights & the Basic Global Structure” (2013). Position: Data Catalog Associate, C4ADS, Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Runnels  Dissertation: “Overly-Great Expectations: Why Political Voluntarism is Impossible, Why Philosophical Anarchism is Unnecessary, and Why That’s Not a Problem” (2013). Position: Academic Advisor IV, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Texas A & M University.

Benedict Shing Bun Chan  Dissertation: “An East and West Debate on Human Rights” (2011). Positions:  Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 yr.), Tulane University, 2011 – 2012; Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Hang Seng Management College, 2012 – 2015; Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Religion and Philosophy, and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies), Hong Kong Baptist University, 2015 – present.

Hsin-Hua Fan  Dissertation: “On Popular Sovereignty” (2009). Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Center, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2008 – 2010; Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Philosophy Department, Soochow University, Taiwan, 2010 – present.

Joshua Kassner  “The Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention and Rwanda” (2007). Associate Professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies; Director, B.A. in Philosophy, Law, and Ethics program, Ethics program, University of Baltimore.

Jose Idler “The Very Idea of Hispanic Identity” (2005). Post-doctoral Fellow, National Research Initiative, American Enterprise Institute; Trade and Global Affairs Advisor, Tew Cardenas, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Director, Editorial and Information Services Office, Federal Judiciary Center, Washington, D.C. [add UMd current teaching?]

Scott James  “Reasons for Rescue: An Essay on Beneficence” (2005). Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Bowling Green St. University

Timothy L. Lake “A Certain Democracy: The Political Philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Cornel West” (2004). Associate Professor of English and Black Studies, Wabash College.

Csaba Nyiri “Some Misgivings about Multiculturalism and Other Cosmopolitan Ideas” (2003). Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Heidelberg College [update]

Carrie-Ann Biondi “Belonging and Becoming: Toward a Consensualist Conception of Citizenship” (2001, Fred Miller co-chair). Associate Professor of Philosophy, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY [dates]. Adolescent Program Manager and Coach at Higher Ground Education [dates]

Mario Pascalev “Territoriality: An Account of the Territorial Authority of States” (2001). Lead Programer Analyst, Data Science Development, Decision Sciences & Transformation, Geico, Washington, DC.

Alexei Marcoux “Legal Normativity Reconsidered: Raz, Positivism, and Political Authority” (2001, James Child co-chair). Professor of Business, Ethics and Society and Institute for Economic Inquiry Senior Scholar at the Heider College of Busines, Creighton University.

Ian Young “Unity and Diversity: A Reconciliation” (2001). Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University.

Kenneth Cust “A Just Minimum of Health Care” (1993). Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Philosophy Program, University of Central Missouri.