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Lack of Travel Funding Hurts Graduate Student Job Prospects

Claire Lockard, a PhD student in our Philosophy department, wrote about the lack of graduate funding in the Loyola Phoenix:

To be a competitive job applicant, students are usually expected to have presented research at multiple conferences. One can make the argument that conference presentations are required of graduate students, despite the lack of funding from Loyola.

Loyola doesn’t pay graduate students enough money to fund their own conference travel. And if the graduate school caps reimbursements at $400, and then doesn’t even have enough of those grants to go around, then all graduate students at Loyola are at a disadvantage when we apply for academic jobs.

Read more at the Loyola Phoenix!

10-03-2017 | Comments Off on Lack of Travel Funding Hurts Graduate Student Job Prospects

Congratulations, Merritt!

The recipient of this year’s Graduate Student Teaching Award is Merritt Rehn-DeBraal.

We congratulate Merritt on her teaching achievements. And we want to congratulate the other applicants for the award, all of whom have been successful teachers and taught innovative and engaging courses.

via Dr. Wike

3-18-2014 | Comments Off on Congratulations, Merritt!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Timothy Weidel and his wife, who celebrated the birth of a baby daughter on December 7th.

1-04-2014 | Comments Off on Congratulations!

LUC Philosophy Placement Statistics for PhD Alumni

•             From 2010-2013, twenty-seven Ph.D. students have completed their degrees and graduated.

•             Of those, a small number have chosen non-academic careers (theater, community organizing, chaplaincy, business).

•             The rest have academic careers. Seventeen have full-time positions and five have one or more part-time positions.

•             Eleven alumni teach at non-religiously affiliated schools, and eleven teach at religiously affiliated schools.

•             Seventeen alumni teach at four-year colleges, and five teach at two-year colleges.

 

Any additional questions about these statistics or recent alumni placement, should be directed to Molly Clasen (contact info below).

 

Molly Clasen

Office Assistant

Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago

Crown Center 381

1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660

Phone: 773.508.2453

Fax: 773.508.2292
E-Mail: mclasen@luc.edu


               

		    

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Congratulations to Justin Nordin and his wife on the birth of their baby girl over the weekend!

               

		    

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Congratulations to Clinton Neptune and his wife who just welcomed a new baby daughter!

               

		    

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Congratulations, Alberto!
           

           

            
Dr. Alberto Bertozzi has been selected by the Graduate School as Loyola’s nominee for the Council of Graduate Studies/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities/Fine Arts category.



Alberto defended his dissertation with distinction in 2012:


On Eros in Plotinus: Attempt at a Systematic Reconstruction (with a Preliminary Chapter on Plato)


Director: Dr. Adriaan T. Peperzak


Congratulations to Alberto and thanks to all who wrote nominating letters.




Message from Dr. Vicki Wike

               

		    

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Keep up the good work, everybody!
           

           

            
According to the information we have, the following is a brief summary of the accomplishments of our graduate students this past academic year.


Congratulations to all!


    

  • ·        19 had teaching assistantships
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  • ·        4 received university fellowships for next year and 1 received the President’s Medallion
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  • ·        4 department awards were given (3 for summer research and 1 for excellence in teaching)
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  • ·        40 presentations were given by 25 different students
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  • ·        15 travel awards were granted
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  • ·        5 publications resulted (by 5 different students)
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PRG: Events in May
           

           

            



               

		    

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Congratulations, Lay!
           

           

            


Thought you’d like to know:




Lay Phonexayphova received an award for best research paper presentation among those on his panel for his paper, “Personal Autonomy and the Military: Developing Relational Skills to Form the Professional Military Ethic,” at Loyola’s 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Graduate School Students.




Congratulations to Lay!




VW

               

		    

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Congratulations to Rebecca Scott!
           

           

            
The recipient of this year’s Graduate Student Teaching Award is Rebecca Scott.


We congratulate Rebecca on her teaching achievements. And we want to congratulate the other applicants for the award, all of whom have been successful teachers and taught innovative and engaging courses.


This award will be presented in May at the end-of-year potluck when we will also be honoring graduating students.


 


Best,


Vicki

               

		    

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Putting more female and non-white authors into your intro-class syllabus
           

           

            
Greetings,




It is well known that white male authors tend to dominate most intro class syllabi in philosophy. Well, there is a new resource I came across…




Check out this blog post for the link to a new (and ongoing) database of suggestions for texts authored by female philosophers that you can incorporate into your syllabus.




I hope this helps some of you. ALSO:




I thought of starting similar database just for us grad students at Loyola (and maybe faculty too). Three reasons:




    

  • We would be able to then approach each other and ask “how did you use this particular text?”, “how did it go?”, and so on.
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  • I would also want to hear of texts written by non-white authors.
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  • We can more easily access the texts from each other.
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[Link to internal database for shared teaching resources is available to Loyolans. Contact us or an AGSP member if you would like access to the database.]




Best, Asaf





               

		    

                                
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Alumnus Mark McCreary encouraging students to live well by doing good
           

           

            


 


Click here to read the full article.


via Iowa newspaper The Gazette.

               

		    

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Hypatia Reviews Online (HRO) – NOW LIVE – as of January 15, 2013
           

           

            
 From the Hypatia listserv:


We are pleased to announce that HRO – the new online venue for Hypatia  book reviews – is now up and running!  We launch HRO with five new Hypatia book reviews and a very full archive of past reviews: a set of reviews that appeared online in 2004, and links to all the reviews since published in regular issues of the journal.


 


HRO is open access; all HRO reviews are available online at: http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO


 


If you’re interested in reviewing for HRO, or can recommend books for review, please contact the Hypatia Book Review Editor, Sharyn Clough, either directly or through the Hypatia Editorial Office: sharyn.clough@oregonstate.edu / hypatia@uw.edu.


 


Sincerely,


Hypatia Editorial Office


 


via Diana Tietjens Meyers 



               

		    

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The Phenomenology Research Group has a fabulous new site! Check it!
           

           

            
 




http://www.phenomenologyresearchgroup.net/


For those of you who don’t know about the PRG, here’s the blurb from their site’s “About” section (also, shame on you!):




The Phenomenology Research Group (PRG) at Loyola University Chicago is a joint student-faculty initiative dedicated to advancing research in phenomenology. The PRG is open to the entire academic community of Loyola University, Chicago, the greater Midwest, and beyond. Inter-disciplinary approaches are welcome. Seminars and workshops will be held on a regular basis to present research and inspire new directions in contemporary phenomenology.


The  PRG was founded in 2012 by Dr. Hanne Jacobs, Thomas Bretz, Rebecca Scott, Giancarlo Tarantino, Sean Petranovich, and Mike Gutierrez.




This group is an exciting development for the department and for phenomenologists in and around Chicago. For those of you are interested in being involved and/or following the work that they’re doing, there’s a link to their Facebook page (and their site) in the right sidebar on this blog.  You can subscribe to their newsletter here.


Keep up the good work, y’all!

               

		    

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