Current Graduate Students
Christopher Anderson
Program: PhD
MA - San Francisco State, 2002.
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, American Philosophy, Critical Theory.
Asaf Bar-Tura
Program: PhD
Jason Barrett
Program: PhD
Philip Bauchan
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Ethics
Stacy Bautista
Program: PhD
MA - Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
Interests: Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics, Levinas, Zizek
Richard Beebe
Program: Applied MA
Peter Bergeron
Program: PhD
Nathan Berthiaume
Program: PhD
Interests: Kant and Nietzsche, Ethics
Alberto Bertozzi
Program: PhD
Interests: Ancient, Continental
Dissertation: "Desire from Plato through Plotinus to Augustine"
Jesse Blazek
Program: PhD
Mark Bourgeois
Program: PhD
Marco Bran Flores
Program: Applied MA
Thomas Bretz
Program: PhD
Brian Buckley
Program: PhD
Email: bbuckl1@luc.edu
MA - Catholic University, 1998
MA - Gonzaga, 2005
JD - George Washington University, 1994
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Medical Ethics.
Hillary Bussell
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Arendt, and Foucault) and Feminist Theory
Matthew Butcher
Program: PhD
Interests: Early Modern, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Epistemology.
Joel Cade
Program: PhD
Christopher Calderon
Program: Applied MA
Rodolfo Casals
Program: Applied MA
Mark Chakoian
Program: PhD
Interests: Continental Philosophy, Heidegger
Won Choi
Program: PhD
Interests: Political, French Philosophy, Marxism, Psychoanalysis
Dissertation: "Althusser with Lacan". The topic is 'the theory of ideology.'
Jeffrey Courtright
Program: PhD
MA - Loyola Univeristy Chicago, 2003.
Interests: Philosophy of Trust, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche.
Aaron Crowe
Program: PhD
Sheila Crumrine
Program: Applied MA
LaChanda Davis
Program: PhD
MA - Philosophy, San Francisco State University, 2007
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Aesthetics
Marina Denischik
Program: MA
Christina Drogalis
Program: PhD
Rev. Tanya J Denley, BBC
Program: MA - Health Care Ethics
Patrick Douglas
Program: Applied MA
Matthew Dunch
Program: MA
Jomil Ebro
Program: PhD
Merritt Foy
Program: PhD
Interests: Feminist and Queer Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Nietzsche, Irigaray,
and Foucault
Richard Fichtinger
Program: Applied MA
Paul Frederick
Program: Applied MA
John Garcia
Program: PhD
Erik Gardner
Program: PhD
John Giannini
Program: MA
Kristina Grob
Program: PhD
Email: kgrob@luc.edu
MA - Women's Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 2005
MA - Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
Thesis: "Which Sexuality? Which Liberation? Ethics and Epistemology in the Feminist Sex Wars"
Luke Hansen
Program: MA
Interests: Phenomology, 20th Century French Thought
Justin Harrison
Program: PhD
Dissertation: "Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson."
Peter Hudis
Program: MA
Michael Husby
Program: MA
Edyta Imai
Program: PhD
Email: eimai@luc.edu
Roy Joseph
Program: Applied MA
Tim Jung
Program: MA
Matthew Kelsey
Program: PhD
Interests: Plato, Kant, Metaphisiology, Philosophical Methodology
Keith Kenyon
Program: PhD
Bryan Kibbe
Program: PhD
John Kim
Program: MA
Kathryn King
Program: PhD
BS - University of Notre Dame (Biochemistry, 2nd major in Philosophy)
MA - Loyola University Chicago (Applied Philosophy, Health Care Ethics)
Interests: Ethics
Dissertation: Corporations as Group Agents/Responsible Collectives in Theory and in Practice
Andy Kondrat
Program: PhD
Susan Koop-Palmisano
Program: MA
Maria Kulp
Program: PhD
Interests:Ethics, Phenomology, Philosophy of Religion
Maggie Labinski
Program: PhD
MA - Philosophy, Boston College
Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Phenomenology
Paul Leisen
Program: PhD
Interests:Continental, Social/Political, Aesthetics, Phenomology of Theatre
Joseph Linn
Program: PhD
Anthony Lusvardi
Program: Applied MA
Daniele Manni
Program: PhD
Justin Marquis
Program: PhD
MA - Philosophy, Purdue University
Interests: Nietzsche, 20th Century Continental, Kant
Dissertation: “Nietzsche’s Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism.”
Mary Kay Matzen
Program: PhD
Interests:Existential therapy, Hiedegger
Tim McCabe
Program: MA
Patrick McCarty
Program: MA
Michael McGettigan
Program: PhD
MA - Philosphy, Universität Tübingen, 1999
Interests: Transcendental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory
Darin McGinnis
Program: PhD
Interests: Nietzsche, 20th Century Continental
Dissertation: "A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche’s Genealogical Project"
Chris McTavish
Program: PhD
Dissertation: "An Experiential Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to the Charges of Dogmatism, Formalism, and Rigorism."
Winston Mina
Program: Applied MA
Nicholas Mowad
Program: PhD
MA - Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2005
Interests: German Idealism (especially Hegel), Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy
Dissertation: "The Soul and the Death of the Body in Hegel's Anthropology." (Supervisor: Dr. Adriaan Peperzak)
Russell Newstadt
Program: PhD
Interests: problem of predication as it is variously formulated in the medieval tradition, from Boethius through Ockham, and how it is taken up, directly, but mostly indirectly, in Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition.
Francis Nguyen
Program: Applied MA
Jeffrey Nichols
Program: MA
Frederick Nitsch
Program: PhD
Peter Omollo
Program: PhD
Carlos Pereira Di Salvo
Program: PhD
Andrew Pierce
Program: PhD
Email: apierc1@luc.edu
MA - Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2005
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Critical Theory
Dissertation: 'Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights'
Andrew Pioske
Program: MA
Stephen Pitts
Program: Applied MA
Matthew Prochilo
Program: Applied MA
Caitlin Purvin-Dunn
Program: PhD
Julius Rhodes
Program: PhD
Dissertation: "An Analysis of Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach On The Rights and Dignity of the Disabled (permanent mental disablities specifically) vis-a-vis Rawls' On Social Contract Theory"
David Rim
Program: MA
Roni Rae Rivera
Program: PhD
Interests:Applied Ethics, Social/ Political, Femnist Theory, Economic Theory, Postcolonial theory
Kyle Roark
Program: Applied MA
Andrew Rodriguez
Program: Applied MA
Michael Rossman
Program: Applied MA
Nicoletta Ruane
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of economics, 19th Century German Thought
Patrick Rugen
Program: PhD
Sean Salai
Program: MA
Rebecca Scott
Program: PhD
Bradley Seeman
Program: PhD
Dissertation: Working title: Moral Reasons Arbitrariness as a Problem for the Materialist Metaethics of Allan Gibbard, Christine Korsgaard, and John Post.
Joseph Simmons
Program: Applied MA
Chris Skrable
Program: MA
Graham Steers
Program: MA
Courtney Stewart
Program: PhD
Blain Swen
Program: PhD
Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics
Giancarlo Tarantino
Program: MA
Kyle Thomsen
Program: PhD
Interests: Early Modern, social/political, contemporary continental
David Uchizono
Program: PhD
Gisele Velarde La Rosa
Program: PhD
Alonso Villaran
Program: PhD
Email: villaran.alonso@gmail.com
JD - Universidad de Lima, 2000
Certificate in Philosophy - Universidad Ruiz de Montoya, 2004
Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Douglas Walters
Program: PhD
Jill Ward
Program: Applied MA
Timothy Weidel
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political- Rights Theory, Ethics, utilitarianism, Femnist Care ethics
Paul Winters
Program: MA
Gregory Wolcott
Program: PhD
Interests: Social & Political Theory, Moral Philosophy, American Pragmatism (esp. C.S. Peirce), & Austrian Economic Theory
Dissertation: "Liberty and Limitations: Persons, Agape, and the Common Good"
