Congratulations to Faculty and Students!

Monday, August 08, 2016
  • To Ryan Murphy, SF State M.A. Fall 2014, now teaching at Southwest Colorado Community College, who has a chapter included in a new collection on the "Philosophy of Forgiveness".

  • Professor Ásta (Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir) Wins National Humanities Center Fellowship. Read the full story.

  • To Andy Peterson (M.A. '11) who is completing his doctorate and has a job offer as assistant professor at a research university.

  • Congratulations to SF State M.A. candidate Kathleen Nicole O'Neal on being named a 2015-2016 Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar! Thanks also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Isabelle Peschard, for her sponsorship.

  • On August 7th, 2015, SF State M.A. candidate Ashlie Meredith presented her paper entitled "The Pitfalls of Contempt in Liberatory Struggles" on the main program for the 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress at CU Boulder.

  • Congratulations to recent M.A. graduates Eric Clanton, Danny Gluch, Matthew Howery and Neil Pettijohn, who have been offered lecturer positions at CSU Sacramento for Fall '15.

  • Recent graduate Rachel Buddeberg is making news for her advocacy in San Francisco, which continues the work begun in her M.A. thesis in the Department of Philosophy.

  • Congratulations to TWO philosophy graduate students who received travel funding awards this Spring. Each was granted $600.00 in travel funding from the College of Liberal and Creative Arts. A continuing student presented at the Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers on April 17th, 2015. David Wong presented his paper, "How the Representation Consumer Determines Representational Content" on April 18, 2015 at the Long Island Philosophical Society Conference.