Recent alumni
- PhDs
- Aesthetics and Art Theory MA
- Modern European Philosophy MA
- Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory MA
PhDs
| 2011 | Tom Eyers |
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| PhD: | Jacques Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real' |
| Profile: | Tom is currently on a two-year Andrew Mellon post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Washington University in St Louis, USA. His profile at Washington University at St Louis. |
| 2010 | Katie Lloyd Thomas |
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| PhD: | Building Materials: Conceptualizing Materials Via the Architectural Specification |
| Profile: | Katie is Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University. Her profile at Newcastle University. |
| 2010 | Matthew Charles |
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| PhD: | Speculative Experience and History: Walter Benjamin's Goethean Kantianism |
| Profile: | Matt is currently teaching on the MA programmes in the CRMEP at Kingston. He also teaches in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. He is the author of 'Imaginative Mislocation: Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome, Ground Zero of the Twentieth Century', Radical Philosophy 162 (July/August 2010) and co-author (with Peter Osborne) of the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry Walter Benjamin. He is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy. |
| 2010 | Dustin McWherter |
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| PhD: | Ontology and Cognitive Experience in Kant and Bhaskar |
| Profile: | Dustin is currently revising his thesis to be published as a book by Palgrave Macmillan. He has two articles forthcoming: 'Transcendental Idealism and Ontological Agnosticism' in Kantian Review, and 'Reconstructing Bhaskar's Transcendental Analysis of Experimental Activity' in Cosmos and History. |
| 2010 | Peter Kapos |
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| PhD: | Freedom Moves in Leaps: The Problem of Choice in Kant and Fichte |
| Profile: | Peter teaches Art and Design to art students in London. In 2010, he established (with Chris Ireson) the Das Program website exclusively to sell Dieter Rams designs and Braun products issued between 1955 and 1995, the period of Rams' office as Braun's Director of Design. |
| 2009 | Luke Skrebowski |
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| PhD: | Systems, Contexts, Relations: An Alternative Genealogy of Conceptual Art |
| Profile: | Luke is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-editor (with Armen Avanessian) of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2011). He is currently working on a book project deriving from his PhD research. His profile at Cambridge University. |
| 2009 | Wesley Phillips |
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| PhD: | Anticipation in Music and Language: Adorno and Heidegger |
| Profile: | Wesley is an independent scholar. He is the author of 'Melancholy Science? Critical Theory and German Idealism Reconsidered', Telos 155 (Summer 2011). |
| 2009 | Alan McPherson |
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| PhD: | Memory and Expectation in Aesthetics: A Study of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory |
| Profile: | Alan is an artist and philosopher. His most recent exhibition was Constructed Paintings at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Glasgow, March-July 2010. His website. |
| 2008 | Simon Skempton |
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| PhD: | Alienation After Derrida |
| Profile: | Simon currently teaches Philosophy and Intellectual History at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow. A revised version of his PhD was published as Alienation After Derrida (London: Continuum, 2010). His profile at NRU, Higher School of Economics. |
| 2006 | Nina Power |
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| PhD: | From Theoretical Antihumanism to Practical Humanism: The Political Subject in Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou |
| Profile: | Nina is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Roehampton University and writes widely in the national press (for The Guardian, in particular) on the politics of protest. She is the author of One Dimensional Woman (Ropley: ZeroBooks, 2009). Her profile at Roehampton University. |
| 2006 | Andrew McGettigan |
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| PhD: | Disputes in the 'Metaphysics' of Ethico-Political Transformation: A Reassessment of the Speculative Philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas |
| Profile: | Andrew is a freelance writer, speaker and researcher based in London. He writes on philosophy, the arts and higher education. His website. |
| 2005 | Alastair Morgan |
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| PhD: | @Life Does Not Live@: Experience and Life in the Philosophies of Theodor W. Adorno and Giorgio Agamben |
| Profile: | Alastair is Lecturer of Mental Health in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at Nottingham University. A revised version of his PhD appeared as Adorno's Concept of Life (London: Continuum, 2007). His profile at Nottingham University. |
| 2004 | Julie Kuhlken |
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| PhD: | Why Would a Philosopher Take an Artist Seriously? |
| Profile: | Julie is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Misericordia University (Dallas, PA). |
| 2002 | Adam Beck |
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| PhD: | Heidegger and Science: Nature, Objectivity and the Present-at-Hand |
| Profile: | Adam is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at London Metropolitan University. |
| 2001 | Christian Kerslake |
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| PhD: | The Problem of Immanence in Kant and Deleuze |
| Profile: | Christian is Senior Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. His works include Deleuze and the Unconscious (London: Continuum Press, 2007) and Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy: From Kant to Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). |
| 2001 | Stewart Martin |
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| PhD: | Adorno and the Problem of Philosophy |
| Profile: | Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory at Middlesex University, and a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy. His publications include articles in Oxford Art Journal and Third Text. He is currently working on a book about Marx and the concept of 'life'. His profile at Middlesex University. |
| 1998 | Bob Cannon |
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| PhD: | Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas and Beyond |
| Profile: | Bob is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London and the BA Sociology Programme Leader. A revised version of his PhD was published by Palgrave Macmillan, under the same title, in 2001. His profile at UEL. |
| 1997 | Andrew Rossiter |
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| PhD: | The Infinite Subject: The Transcendence of Subjectivity from Descartes to Derrida |
| Profile: | While finishing his PhD, Andrew moved to Hamburg where he worked in a drug advisory centre. His debut book, Apricot Juice and Other Stories (Books on Demand GmbH, 2001), is based around his experiences there. He has subsequently worked as an IT programmer, a manager and a translator. He is currently putting together a second volume of short stories, and continues to live and work in Hamburg. |
| 1995 | Mark Neocleous |
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| PhD: | State, Power, Administration: Marxist and Foucauldian Perspectives on State Development in Britain, 1832-1918 |
| Profile: | Mark is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, and Head of the Department of Politics and History, at Brunel University London. He is the author of many books and is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy. His profile at Brunel University. |
Aesthetics and Art Theory MA
- Tom Ackers (MA 2011) is studying on The Independent Study Programme at the Whitney Museum, New York.
- Josefine Wikström (MA 2010) has begun a PhD in the CRMEP on Ontologies of Production and Performance.
- Dessislava Dimova (MA 2009) was the Curator of the 2nd International Antakya Biennial (2010). She is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
- Luke Skrebowski (MA 2009) submitted his PhD in CRMEP simultaneously with the dissertation for this, his second MA. He now lectures in Art History at the University of Cambridge - see PhD Alumni.
- Gil Leung (MA 2008) is Distribution Manager at the Lux Arts Agency, London, and Editor of VERSUCH journal. She previously worked as Assistant Curator for Tate Film and Live Programmes.
- Pilar Villela Mascaro (MA 2008) is a freelance Curator in Mexico City.
- Kate Parker (MA 2008) is a freelance Producer and Production Manager for artists' films and other projects.
- Richard Paul (MA 2007) is a Lecturer, photographer and artist. He is a candidate for a PhD by practice in Fine Art at Middlesex University.
- Jay Hetrick (MA 2006) recently finished a PhD in post-Kantian philosophy of art at the University of Amsterdam.
- Dan Kidner (MA 2005) is director of the artists' film production company and exhibition space, Picture This, in Bristol.
- Peter Kapos (MA 2003) was awarded his PhD on The Problem of Choice in Kant and Fichte in the CRMEP in 2010 - see PhD Alumni.
- Wesley Phillips (MA 2003) was awarded his PhD in the CRMEP, Anticipation in Music and Language: Adorno and Heidegger, in 2009 - see PhD Alumni.
- Marta Kuzma (MA 2002) is Director of Office for Contemporary Art Norway, in Oslo - a foundation created by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a curator at Documenta 13 (2012).
- Michael Sperlinger (MA 2000) is Assistant Director of Lux, an agency for artists' film and video, in London.
Modern European Philosophy MA
- Anindya Bhattacharyya (MA 2011) is a full time journalist and activist with The Socialist Worker.
- Andres Saenz de Sicilia (MA 2011) has been awarded a PhD Studensthip in the CRMEP to investigate the concept of subsumption in Kant, Hegel, Marx and after.
- Reham Elnory (PgDip 2010) won a fully funded PhD place in Philosophy at Boston University.
- Ian Jakobi (MA 2010) has begun a PhD on Hegel in the CRMEP.
- Pavel Khazanov (MA 2010) won a full-funded place in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Vijak Haddadi Moghaddam (MA 2009) won a PhD Studentships in the CRMEP.
- Philip Homburg (MA 2009) won a Scholarship for a PhD in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex.
- Timo Uotinen (MA 2009) won a Scholarship for a PhD in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Dustin McWherter (MA 2006) was awarded his PhD in the CRMEP in 2010 - see PhD Alumini.
Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory MA
- Ian Cuslidge (MA, 2009) is working as Computer Game Designer.
- Sebastian Truskolaski (MA 2009) won a Scholarship for a PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Shehzad Amjad (MA, 2008) is working as a freelance journalist in Pakistan.
- Diarmuid Hester (MA 2008) has begun a PhD in English at the University of Sussex.
- Cécile Malaspina (MA 2007) has begun a PhD on Canguilhem at the University of Paris VII.
- Yesim Yaprak Yildiz (MA 2007) is a Researcher with Amnesty International in London.
- David Hancock (MA 2006) is writing a PhD on Leo Strauss in the London Graduate School, Kingston University.
