UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS - DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
FURTHER ACADEMIC PLACEMENT INFORMATION
Many of the Department's doctoral graduates have
distinguished themselves in the academic world: there has been one College
President (Mt. St. Clare College), a College Dean, and Associate Provost
(Park College), and Assistant to the President (Kansas State), a Graduate
Dean (Memphis State), a Director of Women's Studies (Missouri), a Director
of the Center for the Study of Values and Social Philosophy (Colorado),
at least nine Department Chairs (Kansas State, Wittenburg, Colorado,
Bucknell, Memphis State, Central Arkansas, Park College, Phillips University).
One graduate held a Distinguished Chair of Business Ethics at Georgetown;
and is now at the Wharton School of Business; another received a distinguished
chair at the University of Virginia; another was the recipient of the
Review of Metaphysics Annual Dissertation Prize; one is the editor
of a major journal (The Southern Journal of Philosophy), another
the editor of the Southwest Philosophical Studies, another the
co-editor of the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, another
of Soundings: A Series in Ethics, Economics and Business, and
several others hold similar posts and appointments on various editorial
boards of journals and presses. In addition, several have served or
are serving on national committees of the American Philosophical Association
and other professional societies.
The philosophy Ph.D.s have also been the recipients of various honors
and awards including: The Review of Metaphysics Annual Dissertation
Essay Prize--perhaps the most distinguished award available to new Ph.D.s
in the U.S.A.; the Outstanding Professor Award at Baker University;
a MASUA Honors Lecturer; the Outstanding Professor Award at Knoxville
College; and numerous nominations for excellence in teaching. The Ph.D.
holders have also been recipients of a variety of research grants and
fellowships including a Fulbright Visiting Lectureship, two Mellon Fellowships,
NSF Grant and U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration Grants
for research in Business Ethics, Computer Ethics, and Ethics and Technology,
a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a National Humanities Center Fellowship,
and ACLS Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, an American Philosophical
Society Grant, a U.S. Office of Educational Research Grant; two Mellon
Foundation grants, and numerous others. The Ph.D.s are also serving
as panelists and consultants for several granting agencies including
NSF and NEH.
With respect to research and publication, on the basis of the examination
of just thirty-five current c.v.s of K.U. Ph.D.s currently teaching,
there are approximately 25 books, 175 articles in refereed journals,
about 75 book reviews, approximately 250 presentations to professional
societies, conferences, etc.; about 100 notes and other short reviews,
and many other informal presentations to popular audiences, student
groups, panels, etc. There are a great number of individual accomplishments
that could be cited, but limitations of space and the desire here to
provide a collective (not individualized) evaluation make this impossible.
