Nova PhDs

A forum for grads of Villanova's Philosophy PhD program

directors (revised)
incidentally, i just did a little count of phd's and abd's still around the program. these are the directors; please correct me in comments if i'm wrong, and if you know for sure some of the ones i'm unclear on. by my count, we've got 18 phd's conferred, and 11 abd's at the moment.

caputo: jennifer, jamie smith, darin, michael andrews, dana, john, adam (abd), andrea (abd), greg (abd), danny (abd), mike brogan (abd)
busch: chris, joe, farhang, seth (abd), matt (abd), naz (abd ???)
schmidt: matthias, ted, shannon, jamey findling, ammon
brogan: sarah, lucio, mike shaw (abd)
carvalho: josh (abd), andy (abd ???)
scholz: steve
mccartney: tim


edited to reflect comments below. do we think naz and andy gallinger are ABD or not?
also: my understanding is that mike brogan may or may not actually complete the program at this point; that's why i didn't include him initially. but i suppose i had andy on there, so i've added mike brogan, as well.
Posted by John Whitmire on Thursday June 23, 2005 at 12:23am
Farhang Erfani (mail):
Walter Brogan directed Sarah and Lucio's theses.
Greg, Dan Greenspan and Mike Brogan are abd and working with Caputo.
Josh is abd and is working with John Carvalho.

A few have passed comps but have not defended their proposals yet.

Incidentally, here is the link for the placement page, which needs updating and it is not currently linked from anywhere!
6.23.2005 1:22am
J.C. Berendzen:
I have a vague sense that Andy's director is Carvalho...Does the program have a time limit on how long you can be ABD?

There is a link to that placement page, but the route to it is rediculously circuitous and byzantine (I think it is under "procedures" or something like that under information for prospective grad students). As has been commented on already, that site really needs reworking...
6.23.2005 1:43am
J.C. Berendzen:
Oh, also, I don't think Denny can be Ashley's director (and I have the feeling that he might not actually be ABD...)
6.23.2005 1:45am
Ammon Allred:
I don't think that Ashley is ABD, and I think that he's past the time frame when Denny can still direct.
6.23.2005 9:10am
John Whitmire:
thanks for the corrections and additions guys. i thought ashley was already abd. hrm.
6.23.2005 2:42pm
J.C. Berendzen:
Naz clearly is ABD, and will surely finish. When I was living in West Philthy I ended up riding the train home from school with him every once and a while, and had several conversations about his project. In brief, he is writing on legal hermeneutics.
6.23.2005 3:31pm
John Whitmire:
i know naz is abd, but i didn't know if he was with busch or someone else.

as for danny, i'm not sure of the date he went abd, but he is writing on kierkegaard and, i believe, has a fulbright to denmark for next year. i guess he spent a year working on his danish to do SK hardcore.

as an aside, is there a way to organize posts into categories? i think we could use both "professional" and "philosophical" categories to start, since things like may not be (directly, at least) philosophically relevant.
6.23.2005 3:40pm