Graduate Students Win Awards

• Margot Wielgus awarded prestigious UK-Heidelberg University Scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year.
• Brandon Absher was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 2008-2009.
• Chaz DeBord was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 20007-2008.
• Brett Fulkerson-Smith was awarded a Dissertation Enhancement Fellowship in 2006-2007.
• Michael Tilley was awarded the Dissertation Year Fellowship in 2006-2007.
• Congratulations to our graduate students on receiving these awards!

Graduate Student Accomplishments

• Ty Camp will present his paper entitled "Hermeneutical Religion and the Gift of Love:  the possibility of the absolutely other" at the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (NASPH) meeting September 25-26, 2009, at Newman University in Wichita, KS.  Abstract (opens in Adobe Acrobat)
• Brandon Absher presented papers at the 2008 meeting of the North American Association for Social Philosophy (Portland University), the Mid-South Philosophy conference (University of Memphis), and the 2008 meeting of the Radical Philosophy Association (San Francisco State University).
• Kamper Floyd is an Instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He presented papers at the Mid-South Philosophy Conference (Memphis), and at the 2008 International Lilly Conference on College Teaching (Miami University).
• Brett Fulkerson-Smith is currently a Fay Horton Sawyier Pre–Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois Institute of Technology. He has published a paper in Proceedings of the 2004-2005 Midwest Philosophy of Education Society. He presented papers at the Kentucky Philosophical Association, the 28th Annual Meeting of the Hegel Society of Great Britian, the Philosophisches Kolloquium (Universitat Siegen), and the American Philosophical Association. For the latter he won the APA Graduate Student Travel Stipend.
• Joshua Horn published a chapter in The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy, and gave two presentations at the University of Kentucky Graduate Conference in 2008.
• Michael Horton is a visiting scholar at Northwestern University for the Fall quarter, and an Instructor at Lake Forest College. He presented a co-authored paper (with Ted Poston) at the Alabama Philosophical Society.
• Nazif Muhtaroglu published a book review in Philosophy East and West, an interview with Oliver Leaman in Fountain Magazine, and an encyclopedia entry on "Imam Hatip Schools" for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam. He presented papers at various conferences, including the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, the 1st International Graduate Student Conference at Padua University and Italian Analytic Philosophy Society, the 4th International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Louisian Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and a conference on Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions at Marquette University. He won a Commonwealth Research Award for his conference presentation.

Philosophy Graduates Find New Appointments

• Joel Hunter (Ph.D. 2008) is a Lecturer at Arizona State University.
• Ronald Mercer (Ph.D. 2007) is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Evansville, in Indiana.
• Christine Metzo (Ph.D. 2008) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
• Joseph Okello (Ph.D. 2007) is an Adjunct Professor at Asbury Seminary and College in Lexington, and an Instructor at the University of Kentucky.
• Robert Sandmeyer (Ph.D. 2007) is a Lecturer at the University of Kentucky.
• Michael Tilley (Ph.D. 2008) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown College in Kentucky.