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2019 - 2020
Summary of PhD Students 2019:
Summary Category:
Entered the marketplace
Other Gender:
3
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-tenure track position
Other Gender:
3
Department Name:
Philosophy
Department Chair:
Sally J. Scholz,
Professor
Faculty:
Name:
Sally J. Scholz,
Title:
Professor and Department Chair
Name:
Julie R. Klein,
Title:
Associate Professor
Name:
Norman Ajari,
Title:
Ph.D
Name:
Farshid Baghai,
Title:
Assistant Professor
Name:
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman,
Title:
Professor
Name:
Walter Brogan,
Title:
Professor
Name:
John M. Carvalho,
Title:
Professor
Name:
William Desmond,
Title:
David R. Cook Chair in Philosophy
Name:
John A. Doody,
Title:
Robert M. Birmingham Chair in Humanities Professor
Name:
James J. McCartney,
Title:
Associate Professor
Name:
Stephen Napier,
Title:
Associate Professor
Name:
Gabriel Rockhill,
Title:
Associate Professor
Name:
Georg Theiner,
Title:
Assistant Professor
Name:
Davey K. Tomlinson,
Title:
Assistant Professor
Name:
James Wetzel,
Title:
Professor
Diversity Efforts:
has a climate or diversity committee
has hosted an event focused on diversity and inclusion within the past year
provides annual sexual harassment, bystander, and climate training (directly or through our institution)
ensures department events are accessible to participants with disabilities
provides accommodations for faculty and guest speakers with disabilities
provides accommodations for students, faculty, and others with disabilities (directly or through our institution)
educates faculty and staff about disability accommodations and how to obtain them (directly or through our institution)
offers multiple courses in which philosophers from underrepresented groups are included on the syllabus in proportion to their numbers in the profession and/or which focus on philosophical issues related to race, gender, disability, class, etc.
has a mentoring program for junior faculty and/or graduate students that addresses issues of diversity and inclusion
Additional efforts to increase inclusiveness:
The Villanova Philosophy Department is committed to teaching, scholarship and hiring practices that emphasize diversity, inclusiveness and multiculturalism, especially with regard to gender and race. This is evident in our graduate and undergraduate curriculum. It is also evident with regard to our efforts in hiring to achieve gender balance. We currently have 7 women on our faculty. We house Hypatia, the leading Journal in feminist philosophy with our colleague Sally Scholz as editor.
Additional Information:
We have on average 6 assistantships per year. We receive on average 120 applications.
Faculty Demographics:
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Unknown Gender
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3
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LGBT
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Other Race
Tenured:
19
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Disability Status
Teaching Fellowships:
12
Non-Teaching Fellowships:
6
Teaching Assistantships:
18
Students teaching their own classes:
12
Other Financial Information:
We provide significant travel awards for those presenting papers at conferences. We offer competitive summer research grants. We offer support for summer abroad programs for graduate students.
Degrees Offered:
Ph.D.
Student Demographics:
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African, African-American
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Asian
Women:
0
Men:
0
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0
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0
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Women:
0
Men:
0
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0
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0
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Hispanic or Latin
Women:
0
Men:
0
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0
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0
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Pacific Islander
Women:
0
Men:
0
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0
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0
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White
Women:
0
Men:
0
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0
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0
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Multi-racial
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Other Race
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
50
Unknown Gender:
0
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LGBT
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Unknown Race
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Disability Status
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Tuition:
Number of Required Courses:
16
Additional Information:
Students can transfer up to 3 courses from MA courses at another institution.
Degrees Awarded:
Year:
2014
Degrees Awarded:
11
Time to Completion:
7.00
Year:
2015
Degrees Awarded:
16
Time to Completion:
7.00
Year:
2011
Degrees Awarded:
2
Time to Completion:
7.00
Year:
2012
Degrees Awarded:
3
Time to Completion:
7.00
Year:
2013
Degrees Awarded:
3
Time to Completion:
7.00
Entry Requirements:
Transcripts:
Yes
Writing Sample:
Yes
Minimum GPA Required?:
Yes
GPA:
3.50
Letters of Recommendation:
3
GRE Required?:
Yes
TOEFL Required?:
No
Other Requirements:
2 page statement of purpose
Program Strengths:
Villanova University offers a doctoral program in Philosophy specializing in Continental Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. Qualified students are eligible for six years of guaranteed funding, with financial awards (including tuition remission and a stipend) for the first four years and the guaranteed teaching of two courses per semester in years five and six, with compensation at the Ph.D. adjunct faculty rate. In addition to its regular awards, the University also offers one special assistantship each year to a student who has an interdisciplinary interest in the intersections of philosophy and theology. Graduate students have the opportunity to study at other area graduate programs through affiliation with the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. Students also participate in a highly-touted teacher training program. The Doctoral Philosophy Program offers courses that emphasize Continental Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. It is especially strong in the tradition of Western thought, and we have specialists in ancient Greek philosophy and late antiquity, as well as in early modern and modern philosophy. Our strengths in Continental Philosophy range from its beginnings in Kant, Hegel, Schelling, and Nietzsche, through the classic texts of Adorno, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, and up to the contemporary treatments of hermeneutics, deconstruction, genealogy, psychoanalysis and critical and feminist theories found in writers such as Agamben, Badiou, Baudrillard, Butler, Castoriadis, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Nancy and Rancière. The Department prides itself on its pluralism. Students are exposed to both the continental and the analytic traditions, and we have particular strengths in the philosophy of mind, analytic aesthetics and social and political philosophy, feminism, environmental philosophy and bioethics. Finally, there is wide concern with questions of social justice, ranging from issues of gender, race and class, to questions of sexual and cultural politics.
Student Demographics:
Demographic Summary Category:
African, African-American
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Demographic Summary Category:
Asian
Women:
1
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Demographic Summary Category:
Native American
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Hispanic or Latin
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Pacific Islander
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Demographic Summary Category:
White
Women:
5
Men:
12
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Multi-racial
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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Other Race
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
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LGBT
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Demographic Summary Category:
Unknown Race
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Demographic Summary Category:
Disability Status
Women:
0
Men:
0
Other Gender:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Tuition:
In State:
$0
Out of State:
$0
Entry Requirements:
Transcripts Required?:
No
Writing SampleRequired?:
No
GRE Required?:
No
GPA Required?:
No
TOEFL Required?:
No
Other Requirements:
Summary of Ph.D. Students, 2011 - 2015:
Summary Category:
Entered the marketplace
Men:
17
Women:
4
Unknown Gender:
0
Other Gender:
0
Summary Category:
Left without receiving a degree
Men:
0
Women:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Other Gender:
0
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Placed in a non-tenure track position
Men:
9
Women:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Other Gender:
0
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Were not placed
Men:
2
Women:
0
Unknown Gender:
0
Other Gender:
0
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-academic Job
Men:
1
Women:
1
Unknown Gender:
0
Other Gender:
0
Summary Category:
Placed in a tenure-track position
Men:
6
Women:
4
Specilizations:
Address:
800 Lancaster Avenue
St. Augustine Center, Room 108
Villanova, PA 19085
United StatesLocation:
Types of Masters:
Terminal Master's:
No
Non-Terminal Master's:
Yes
Public/Private:
Private
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total-faculty-woman:
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Faculty Total Men:
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Faculty Total Unknown:
0
Faculty Total Other:
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Faculty Total:
0
Ph.D. Total Woman:
0
Ph.D. Total Men:
0
Ph.D. Total Unknown:
0
Ph.D. Total Other:
50
Ph.D. Total LGBT:
0
Ph.D. Total Disability:
0
Ph.D. Total:
50
MA Total Woman:
6
MA Total Men:
12
MA Total Unknown:
0
MA Total Other:
0
MA Total LGBT:
0
MA Total Disability:
0
MA Total:
18
Tuition Min:
0
Tuition Max:
0
Total Students:
68
Faculty African/African American:
0
Faculty Asian:
0
Faculty Native American:
0
Faculty Hispanic or Latino:
0
Faculty Pacific Islander:
0
Faculty White:
19
Faculty Multi-racial:
0
Faculty Other Race:
0
Faculty Unknown Race:
0
Ph.D. African/African American:
0
Ph.D. Asian:
0
Ph.D. Native American:
0
Ph.D. Hispanic or Latino:
0
Ph.D. Pacific Islander:
0
Ph.D. White:
0
Ph.D. Multi-racial:
0
Ph.D. Other Race:
50
Ph.D. Unknown Race:
0
MA African/African American:
0
MA Asian:
1
MA Native American:
0
MA Hispanic or Latino:
0
MA Pacific Islander:
0
MA White:
17
MA Multi-racial:
0
MA Other Race:
0
MA Unknown Race:
0
Total Placements:
47
Tenured-track Placements:
13
Non-tenure track Placements:
31
Non-Academic Placements:
3
Percentage of Tenured Track Employees:
95.24
Faculty Other Unknown total:
0
Summary of Ph.D. Students 2016:
Summary Category:
Entered the marketplace
Unknown Gender:
16
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-tenure track position
Unknown Gender:
12
Summary Category:
Placed in a tenure-track position
Unknown Gender:
2
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-academic Job
Unknown Gender:
1
Summary of Ph.D. Students 2017:
Other Gender:
4
Summary Category:
Entered the marketplace
Other Gender:
1
Summary Category:
Placed in a tenure-track position
Other Gender:
3
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-tenure track position
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Summary of Ph.D. Students 2018:
Summary Category:
Entered the marketplace
Other Gender:
4
Summary Category:
Placed in a non-tenure track position
Other Gender:
4
Masters Teaching Placement:
0
Masters Non-Teaching Placement:
0
Masters PhD Placement:
0
Masters Total Placement:
0