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Ever wonder what Philosophy majors do when they don't go elect to pursue a career in Philosophy? If so (and even if not), this page might help give you an answer. (By the way, each person listed below has indicated that they will send me a photo. It might be a good idea for people interested in this page to remind them of that.)
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Ryan Olsen (soon to be alum ('09)) will start work on his Ph.D. at the Yale School of Music this fall. Lucky fellow. |
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Judical Law Clerk at U.S.
Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review.The Ohio State University Moritz College of LawJuris Doctor (J.D.),2005 – 2008 Recipient, Public Service Fellow with Dean's Highest Honors (completed 450+ hours of pro-bono work), 1st in class with 522 hours (2008)
(I believe these poor children pictured with Sara were forced to wear Buckeye apparel. ( GO BLUE!)) |
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What
I'm doing: I'm currently a 5th year
in the University of Minnesota's NIH-sanctioned Medical Scientist
Training Program (a combined MD/PhD degree program). I've completed the
first 2 years of medical coursework (not much patient work here, though
our program has restructured a little since I started), and am now
starting my 4th (and hopefully final, if experiments go well) year in
the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Short version: I've genetically
manipulated mice to examine the role of a micronutrient in brain
development. Long version: I'm working with genetic tools (specifically
inducible trangenes and tissue-specific targeted knockouts--I'll be
happy to clarify) to study the role of iron (an extremely important
micronutrient that is a biochemical cofactor or structural element in
literally hundreds of proteins) during the development of the brain. I'm
further interested in how iron deficiency (anemic and non-anemic) affect
brain sub-structures such as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
during late gestation and early postnatal development (when these
structures are differentiating). These structures are implicated in
memory, learning, and conscious processing, and iron deficiency during
these sensitive periods of development are known to cause long-lasting
cognitive deficits, as tested by a number of both behavioral and
electrophysiological measures, in both human and animal models. There
are currently large populations of children and pregnant moms who are at
risk for iron deficiency in both the developing world and western
cultures such as the USA. I've kept philosophy as a hobby, and am particularly interested in what development, evolution, neuropsychology, and the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience can teach us about how the brain works. Does this have implications for philosophy? I think so--a theory of mind (or as Dreher says, "minding") should be compatible with/grounded in these fields. When I see current work in the neuroscience lit regarding processing and function in prefrontal/parietal/language areas in the human brain, and even work looking at brain function in animals such as fruit flies or mice or monkeys, I long for my philosophy training at Lawrence, where there was always someone to bounce ideas off of. I wish I had an outlet (and time!) for discussion to pursue this! |
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I am working at Lawrence University as
the Associate Director of Annual Giving. That's right, I returned.
Prior to my work at Lawrence, I worked
for a small social service agency in Evanston, Illinois as the
development and communications associate. |
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David
Drewes, LU 1994
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I am currently ABD at the
University of Virginia in Religious Studies (Indian Buddhism) and am
also a visiting lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington. I have a
dissertation fellowship for next year and will defend next March. My work is focused generally on Indian Buddhism between roughly the third century BCE and the fourth century CE, and especially on early, or "early middle period," Mahayana Buddhism. I am also interested in Indian Religion more broadly and in Buddhism as it has been and continues to be practiced throughout Asia and in the West. I am currently working on a dissertation and a handful of articles on the role of sutras (sacred texts) in Mahayana thought and practice and on a group of people known as dharmabhanakas, or "preachers of doctrine," who—I argue—were largely responsible for the composition of Mahayana sutras and the development of Indian Mahayana as we know it. I teach "Religions of the East," "Introduction to Buddhism," and an upper level seminar on Buddhism in India. |
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Jonathan
Edewards, LU 2004
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Vice President at ACI Commercial
Insurance Broker. Photographer at Edewards Photography.
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After Lawrence, I attended the University of Minnesota Law School. I moved to Colorado after I graduated in 2002. I worked for a time in a small Denver firm that focused on business and real estate litigation. In May, 2005, I started working in the real estate practice group at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, a Denver firm of about 100 lawyers. I now spend most of my time on real estate transactions or the real estate aspects of more multi-faceted transactions. I enjoy the job. It's probably fair to say that most of my work as a "dirt lawyer" involves applied logic. I spend most of my time drafting contracts or advising clients who are trying to perform their contracts (or trying to get the people on the other side to do so). I've only been doing this work full-time for about five months, but I'm enjoying it so far. I also try to involve myself in pro bono work and other volunteer efforts. |
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I have recently been accepted to the
Premedical Postbaccalaureate Program at Bryn Mawr College just outside
of Philadelphia. This basically means that starting June of '06 I'll be
sweating my liberally-educated mind off on biology, chemistry and
physics before I enter med school fall of '07. Cool thing: BMC's linkage agreements with a dozen med schools (basically) guarantee matriculation at the program of my choice when I complete postbac.
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After graduating from Lawrence, I earned a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I was a Presidential Management Intern with NASA, and then moved into government consulting. In 2001 I helped found a government consultancy based in Alexandria, VA that provides scientific, engineering, and technical management services to NASA, the Defense Department, and the Department of Homeland Security; we have 35 employees and expect to double in size this year. I live in Fairfax Station, VA with my wife Suzanne and our children Alex (2 years) and Grace (6 months). I remember the days of learning from John Dreher, Bill Boardman, and my fellow students in the Philosophy Department at LU with great fondness!
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T. Vered
Meltzer, LU 2005
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I work fulltime for Language Line Services International as a Mandarin Interpreter. I work from home and take conference calls with people in many different parts of the world. I also do freelance webdesign. In my leisure time I work on artwork and creative writing. If anyone would like a philosophical essay or article translated into modern Chinese, for practical purposes or just for amusement, feel free to email me. My personal website is http://www.sweetprince.net |
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Charles Newhall,
LU 1986
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I am a prep school history teacher at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts. I did my graduate work at Boston College in the History Department, focusing on the Early National Republic (American history), particularly legal and cultural history. I have written about such figures as John Pickering (lexicographer) and Joseph Story (U.S. Supereme Court Associate Justice) and about such movements as the literary and intellectual clubs of Early America (such as Franklin's Junto, the Annapolis Tuesday Club, and the growth of atheneaums in America). Since taking at course with David Brion Davis at Yale, my scholarship has turned toward the issues of the emerging Atlantic world, particularly Atlantic slavery. As a teacher of AP United States history, my focus remains on teaching students to learn how to learn, how to read critically and how to write logical analysis with a narrative thread. My training in philosophy at Lawrence challenged me to do the same, but also left me wanting more narratives...hence history! |
| Wayland is studying Law at the University of Michigan. He just started this year after a year roughing it out east. | |
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Jon Richards, LU 1986
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After graduating from
Lawrence, I taught English in Japan, volunteered with Mother Teresa
in Calcutta, graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School
and then convinced people in Milwaukee to elect me to the Wisconsin
State Assembly. I now serve as Assistant Minority Leader in that
august body. Plato, Dewey and Mill are my constant companions as I
sift through the issues facing Wisconsin. It is great to be in
touch with the Lawrence Philosophy Department again. Hats off to
Tom for creating this site.
Jon Richards
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I majored in philosophy and physics while at Lawrence. I did my
graduate work in physics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I
finished my Ph.D. there in theoretical astrophysics in the summer of
2002. I am currently a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow in astrophysics at the
University of California, Berkeley, and I will join Princeton University
as a Lyman Spitzer Fellow in the fall of 2005. My interests are in
supernova explosions of massive stars, the formation of the heavy
elements, the birth of neutron stars, neutrino interactions, and the
formation, evolution, and structure of galaxies. My courses in philosophy at Lawrence have certainly helped me in my education and work as a physicist --- especially in constructing arguments, in reading and understanding texts and research papers, and in writing. In astrophysics I encounter actual philosophy more often than one might think. The 'anthropic principle', anthropic arguments, and the notion of 'multiverses' come up often. |
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Chris Van Hoof, LU 1996
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After graduating from
LU in 1996, I continued my education at UW-Madison by earning a
mechanical engineering degree. After leaving UW-Madison, I moved to
a suburb of Detroit, MI to start a position with General Motors. I
worked several years as a fuel system test engineer. In 2001, I
returned to UW Madison to pursue an MBA. After graduating in 2003,
I returned to General Motors as a Financial Analyst with GM
Powertrain. I currently work on hybrid vehicle applications. I
recently purchased my first home and share it with my girlfriend,
Sarah, and our dog, Sax.
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Elizabeth Crabtree congratulates Jeff Walker, the 2004 Margaret Fuhry Grant recipient. |
I live in Wales, Wisconsin, and work as a Research Manager – Writing Specialist at Children’s Hospital and Health System Foundation in Milwaukee (www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/11/router.asp). Previously, I was an advancement researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/the UWM Foundation (1999-2002) and at Lawrence University (1998-1999). Before that, I taught in the UWM English Department (1989-1998), and also completed an MA and PhD there in English/Modern Studies (1990, 1995). The snapshot was taken at an August 2004 conference in Toronto, where I received the Margaret Fuhry Grant from the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (www.aprahome.org). The award is presented annually to a fundraising researcher who shows “commitment, leadership, and dedication to the profession.” |
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Although I am not quite sure if I am in the process of becoming a 'professional philosopher' or a professional anything for that matter, I received my M.A. in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 1999. After having spent five years in Amsterdam and Paris, I currently live in New York City where I am quite involved in the contemporary chamber music and jazz and improvised music scenes as a presenter and am pursuing my writing activities on a broad range of cultural, musical, aesthetic, philosophical, and political issues. I will be entering the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the New School University in the fall of 2006.(If so, Chris will be booted off this page and booted onto the LU Alums in Philosophy in '06.) |
