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We have had a very successful recruiting year for the graduate program here at Penn State. Next year we will welcome eleven students into the program:
Joe Balay joins us from Seattle University. He holds a BA in philosophy and an MA in english. His interests include continental philosophy, semiotics, and American pragmatism."
Hannah Beach joins us from Boston via Connecticut after earning her Bachelor's from Colby College in Maine. She is interested in continental philosophy, especially phenomenology, Ancient philosophy, Eastern philosophy, and dinosaurs.
Deniz Durmuş comes to us from Boğaziçi University Philosophy Department where she completed her BA and MA. Her interests include continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist philosophy and gender theory.
Alastair Goff studied at the University of Sydney, Australia. Most of his interests touch on the philosophy of art and aesthetics to some degree, but he enjoys Continental philosophy in general and also dabbles in Plato from time to time.
Aaron Krempa, a Pennsylvania native, has a B.A. in philosophy and Greek from Vassar College, an M.A. from St. John's College (MD), and is in the process of completing an M.A. in philosophy and art at Stony Brook University. His primary interests include the intersection of aesthetics and ontology, continental philosophy, ancient philosophy, and ethics.
Janelle Lattimore comes to us from Douglass College at Rutgers University where she completed a her BA in philosophy with minors in political science and religion. Her interests include political philosophy, epistemology and Ancient Greek philosophy.
Shaeeda Mensah comes to us from Spelman College where she completed her BA in Sociology with minors in philosophy and women's studies. It is her goal to bridge together the fields of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race in order to establish a field known as the Philosophy of race and gender.
John Nale comes from George Washington University by way of Memphis. His research interests include Social Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, and Critical Race Theory
Carolyn O'mara is coming from the University of Memphis. Her interests include feminist theory, gender studies, german idealism, and 20th Century French philosophy.
Camisha Russell comes to us from the University of Memphis. Her interests include ethics, social political philosophy and feminism. She works on critical race theory and African American philosophy and is specifically interested in the effects of race in issues surrounding reproductive technology.
Cori Wong earned her bachelors in philosophy at Colorado State University. Her interests are in feminist theory, social and political philosophy, and epistemology with an emphasis on knowledge of and through bodies, epistemic responsibility, and the influences of ignorance and arrogance.
Given the excellent feedback we have received here. I think it might be a good use of the blog to continue to provide updates on the admissions process for those students on the waiting list.
As I have suggested in previous comments, the blog format is designed to foster a degree of openness that I would like to embrace. There are, of course, limits to this openness as the confidentiality of prospective students must be respected and the Philosophy Program's interests in being as competitive as possible in the recruitment process needs to be considered.
Having said that, I will try to offer periodic updates here to give students on the waiting list some sense of what is happening.
All our offers have now been sent out. While I hope to have decisions from some students prior to our recruitment event scheduled for March 19-21, my sense is that many prospective students will not make final decisions prior to their visit to campus.
All students have until April 15th to make their decisions and programs cannot in any way pressure them to make decisions prior to that date. My goal is to provide the students to whom we have made offers with whatever information they need to make an informed decision about which program is best for them.
This is a difficult and exciting time for both students and programs. My experience is that during the early and middle part of March, students are considering their various options, visiting campuses, and talking to faculty and graduate students. Toward the end of March and certainly at the beginning of April, concrete decisions are made and everything happens very quickly.
As always, I appreciate the level of interest students have shown in our program and I hope to be able to make offers to some on the waiting list as soon as possible.
The faculty is well into the process by which we will make final admissions decisions. We expect to be able to offer admission to a group of students during the course of the week of February 18.
As in past years, we will have a short waiting list of excellent, qualified students to whom we are not at present able to make an offer of admission. We will be in direct contact with those of you to whom we make an offer and with those of you on the waiting list.
With so many excellent applications, the process has been difficult, but enjoyable. We look forward to talking to and meeting many of you in the near future.
The Graduate Program in Philosophy has again received a large number of very excellent applications for admission in Fall 2008. These applications are currently being reviewed by the entire faculty. We continue to be impressed by the academic excellence of the students whose applications we receive.
We look forward to meeting many of them in person during our Spring campus visit for prospective students scheduled for March 19-21.
We hope to be able to make specific offers of admissions by the end of February.
Please continue to visit this site for further updates about the admissions process.
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