Philosophy

Category: Where are they now?

  • Cory Mehan (’99)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Cory Mehan, a 1999 graduate, reports that he spent seven years working in the public sector on housing issues, before making the move to United Health Group Information Technology, where he works as a business analyst.

  • Adam Tehle (’07)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Adam Tehle (’07) has returned to Gustavus, where he is proudly serving as an admission counselor for the college. We expect to net a LOT more philosophy majors as a result of having an “in” in admissions!

  • Christine (Eilertson) Bronson (’94)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Christine (Eilertson) Bronson (’94) is the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Human Services for the State of Minnesota.

  • David Walker (’90)

    —

    by

    heldke

    The movie Bella begins with a line, “If you want to make god laugh, tell him you plans.” This line neatly sums up Dave’s experience in the nearly 20 years since graduating from Gustavus. Since graduating, Dave studied philosophy in a wonderful MA program in Ireland under a wise and fatherly advisor. This was followed…

  • Brooke Lundquist

    —

    by

    heldke

    Philosophy graduate Brooke Lundquist found her honors philosophy paper from a 1999 Wittgenstein seminar taught by Douglas Huff cited as part of a discussion thread in Dutch!  Brooke notes, “pretty much everything on the page that is in English is from my paper, and at some point, I am credited with it, as well.  Unfortunately,…

  • Harald van Gaasbeek (’08)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Harald van Gaasbeek (’08) is attending the Boston University School of Law.

  • Sean Kirkland (’90)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Sean Kirkland (’90) is a philosophy professor at DePaul University, Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. Sean came back in the spring of 2006 to deliver a paper entitled “Letting the Good Appear More Clearly: The Phenomenological Ethics of Aristotle’s Rhetoric”

  • Kelsey Payne (’06)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Kelsey returned to the United States in the spring of 2010, after three and a half years in  Japan. He is  now working as a freelance Japanese-English translator, living the life of a nomad (one guy here said “hobo” sounds nice), and trying to enter the ecological living scene (applying general systems theory and a…

  • Erin Dana (’01)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Erin Dana graduated with a degree in philosophy and feminist theory in 2001. Subsequently she received an M.Ed. in Student Personnel Management. She is the Assistant Director of Academic Advising at Pacific Lutheran University.  And here’s why she thinks it’s useful to study philosophy.

  • Ward Moberg (’69)

    —

    by

    heldke

    Ward Moberg (’69) is retired from 29 years as a fifth grade teacher in Osceola, Wisconsin. You can find Ward’s speech about the role philosophy has played in his life elsewhere on our website, under “why study philosophy?”