Many UNCW graduates go on to lead successful lives. We recognize the impact alumni have on the University, community, and student organizations by their continued success and involvement.
Learn more about our alumni and what they're doing now.
Brandon Tinklenberg
- President of PARS as an undergrad.
- Graduated in 2010.
- Benefited immensely from conversations with PAR faculty members.
- Has a master’s degree from the University of Houston and is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in Toronto.
- Works with ‘comparative cognition’: a subfield of cognitive science exploring relationships between human and nonhuman animal intelligence.
- Conducting research at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig to study the nature of executive functioning of our closest living evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees.
As a philosopher of science, I think it’s vital that philosophers get first-hand experience with empirical work, so I’m delighted to have the opportunity to gain field experience.
Steve Nunez
- Steve Nunez enlisted in the United States Army where he was a member of United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) after graduating from Ashley High School.
- Was active in a variety of areas including the UNC Association of Student Governments and New Hanover County Veterans Council while attending UNCW.
- Graduated from UNCW May of 2016.
- His three majors included:
- Philosophy & Religion: Concentration in Philosophy
- Philosophy & Religion: Concentration in Religion
- Anthropology with minors in Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies and Classical Studies.
- Steve graduated from Harvard Divinity School in May 2018 where he studied religion, ethics, and politics.
- In Fall 2018, he began a Ph.D. program at the University of Connecticut.
- Steve currently teaches an online summer course for UNCW – PAR 220, “Race(ism), complicity, and the American liberal imagination.”
Crystal Lubinsky
- Dr. Crystal Lynn Lubinsky received her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in ccclesiastical history.
- She received her B.A. in History and Philosophy and Religion from UNCW and her M.A. from NYU.
- Dr. Lubinsky works at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth as the director of the religious studies Program.
- She also lectures on ancient history with the history department.
- Her research interests and future projects include gender/sexual issues in the early church, monasteries as refuge, and the Christian Desert Myth.
- She published a book titled Removing Masculine Layers to Reveal a Holy Womanhood: The Female Transvestite Monks of Late Antique Eastern Christianity.
Michael Runkle
- Michael Runkle, Esq., attended law school at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California after receiving his B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from UNCW.
- He opened his law firm, Seneca Law Group, named after the Roman stoic philosopher once finished with his Juris Doctorate degree and the bar exam.
- His business has grown exponentially since. He works daily, fighting for the rights of those without a voice and defending the constitution of the United States.
- He also represents and works with multiple non-profit organizations that better the community.
- Runkle reports that he uses the skills, knowledge, and understanding learned through the study and pursuit of philosophy at UNCW in everything that the does.
