Alumni

Our former MA student Pranav Ambardekar successfully defends his PhD thesis at Ohio State University

July 1, 2024
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Our alumnus, Pranav Ambardekar (MA 2018), recently graduated from the PhD program at Ohio State philosophy. He defended his dissertation entitled "The Epistemology of Reflection" under the supervision of Declan Smithies, and with Hilary Kornblith, Tristram McPherson, and Abraham Roth as committee members. Congratulations, Dr. Ambardekar!

Starting this fall, he will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Critical Thinking at FLAME University in Pune, India. 

Our former MA student successfully defends her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge

February 13, 2024
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Olesya Bondarenko (MA 2017) successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled "Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and Evidence for Policy" on 12 January 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations, Dr. Bondarenko!

Our former MA student successfully defends his PhD thesis at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

February 12, 2024
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Mykola Bakaiev (MA 2019) successfully defended his PhD thesis "Explanation and Understanding in Postanalytic Philosophy of History" on 22nd January at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Congratulations, Dr. Bakaiev!

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ERC Preparative Fellowship at University of Bielefeld awarded to our alumnus Michele Luchetti

February 12, 2024
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Michele Luchetti (PhD 2020), currently a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, was granted an ERC Preparative Fellowship at the University of Bielefeld. Michele will join the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science in April 2024 to develop an ERC starting grant application with the title "Towards a History and Philosophy of Performativity in Medical Research, Education and Practice."

Doctoral Fellowship Programme place awarded to our former MA student Rojin Mazouji

December 18, 2023
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Rojin Mazouji (MA 2021), who is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Riverside, won a place in the Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with a project on "Re-reading German Idealists: Liberating Insights for Women". The programme supports doctoral candidates from all areas of research who are carrying out their doctoral studies at an Austrian university. Rojin will be based at the University of Vienna.