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Department of Philosophy

Current Graduate Students

Dan Albanese
Program: MA in Social Philosophy

Benjamin Anderson
Program: MA
Jesuit Student 

Christopher Anderson
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, American Philosophy, and Critical Theory.

David Atenasio
Program: PhD
Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory

Sarah Babbitt
Program: PhD

Interests: Ethics, Moral Epistemology, Virtue Theory, Feminist Theory, and Narrative
Email: sbabbitt@luc.edu

Asaf Bar-Tura
Program: PhD
Interests: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, and Habermas
e-mail: abartura@luc.edu
www.asafbartura.com

Philip Bauchan
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, and Ethics

Nathan Berthiaume
Program: PhD
Interests: Kant, Nietzsche, and Ethics

Robert Blasser
Program: MA

Mark Bourgeois
Program: PhD

Allan Breedlove
Program: PhD
Interests: Critical Theory; Philosophy of Social Science; Hegel, Habermas, Taylor
e-mail: abreedlove@luc.edu

Thomas Bretz
Program: PhD
Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Feminist Theory, and Derrida
e-mail: tbretz@luc.edu

David Bukenhofer
Program: PhD
Interests: Philosophy of Religion and Epistemology
e-mail: dbukenhofer@luc.edu

Corbin Casarez
Program: PhD
Interests: 20th Century Philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Philosophy of Language, and Theory of Value
e-mail: ccasarez@luc.edu

Tim Casey
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Xin Chen
Program: PhD

Jean Clifford
Program: MA

Cameron Coates
Program: PhD
Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Phenomenology
e-mail: ccoates@luc.edu

Anthony Cooper
Program: MA
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Adam Smith
e-mail: acoop13@gmail.com

Aaron Crowe
Program: PhD

LaChanda Davis
Program: PhD
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics
e-mail: ldavis2@luc.edu


Jason Downer
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Christina Drogalis
Program: PhD
Interests: Kant and Ethics
e-mail: christina.drogalis@gmail.com

Robert Duncan
Program: PhD
Interests: Virtue Theory, Metaethics, Aristotle

Kevin Embach
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Randi Feder
Program: MA
Interests: Philosophy and Religion, Spinoza, and Maimonides
e-mail: randi.4@comcast.net 
JD, Georgetown University Law Center

Jacob Golembiewski
Program: MA

Christopher Gontar
Program: MA

Kristina Grob
Program: PhD
Interests: Ethics, Literature and Philosophy, and Feminist Theory
e-mail: kgrob@luc.edu

Christopher Grodecki
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Anthony Gudwein
Program: MA

Michael Gutierrez
Program: PhD
Intersts: Continental Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics
e-mail: mgutierrez1@luc.edu
www.flavors.me/mgutierrez123

Thomas Hansberger
Program: MA
Interests: German Idealism and Phenomenology.

Ashley Karcher
Program: MA

Interests: Philosophy of Education, American Pragmatism, Post-structuralism, Feminist Theory
e-mail: akarcher@luc.edu

Mariam Kennedy
Program: MA
Interests: Action Theory, Agency Issues, and Political Philosophy
e-mail: mkennedy11@luc.edu

Keith Kenyon
Program: PhD

Bryan Kibbe
Program: PhD
Interests: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Technology, Situated Cognition
e-mail: bkibbe@luc.edu
www.bryankibbe.com

Andy Kondrat
Program: PhD
Interests: Health care Ethics
e-mail: akondrat@luc.edu

Jack Krouse
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Maria Kulp
Program: PhD
Interests: Bioethics, Phenomenology, and Ethics
e-mail: mkulp1983@gmail.com

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: MA

Daniele Manni (already there)
Program: Ph.D. (already there)
Interests: Platonic Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, especially Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.
e-mail: dmanni@luc.edu

Mary Kay Matzen
Program: PhD

Michael McGettigan
Program: PhD

Justin Mungal
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Jake Nabasny
Program: MA
Interests: Structuralism, Deconstruction, Philosophy of Literature, and Anarchist Theory
e-mail: jnabasny@luc.edu

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.

Martin Ngo
Program: MA
Jesuit Student


Justin Nordin
Program: PhD
Interests: Plato, Nietzsche, Metaphysics, and Phenomenology
e-mail: jpn144@gmail.com

Ndidi Nwaneri
Program: PhD

Interests: Critical Race Theory, Global Justice, Phenomenology, Feminist Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
e-mail: mnwaneri@luc.edu

Peter Omollo
Program: PhD

Kyoungnam Park
Program: PhD

Joshua Peters
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Sean Petranovich
AGSP President
Program: PhD
Interests: Phenomenology, Space, and Psychoanalysis
e-mail: spetranovich@luc.edu


Saythala Phonexayphova
Program: MA
Interests: Just War Theory, Applied Ethics, Personal Autonomy, Social and Political Philosophy
e-mail: sphonexayphova@luc.edu
http://luc.academia.edu/SaythalaPhonexay
phova

Jacob Quick
Program: MA
Interests: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Personhood, Philosophy of Language\
e-mail: jquick@luc.edu

Roni Rae Rivera
Program: PhD
Interests: Social Philosophy and Feminist Theory
e-mail: Rriver4@luc.edu


John Roselle
Program: MA
Jesuit Student 

Adam Rosinski
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Nicoletta Ruane

Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Economics, 19th Century German Thought

Marcella Russo 
Program: PhD
Intersts: Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language
e-mail: mvrusso87@gmail.com

Richard Schuckman
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Rebecca Scott
Program: PhD

Srujesh Shah
Program: MA
Interests: Social and Political Philosophy
e-mail: sshah32@luc.edu

Kyle Shinseki
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Leila Shooshani
Program: MA

Joel Stenftenagel
Program: MA

Courtney Stewart
Program: PhD 

Jason Stigliano
Program: PhD

Jeffrey Sullivan
Program: MA
Jesuit Student

Giancarlo Tarantino
Program: PhD
Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Hermeneutics
e-mail: gtarantino@luc.edu
http://luc.academia.edu/carlotarantino

Drew Thompson
Program: PHD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy and Ethics

Robert Thurnhoffer
Program: MA

Gisele  Velarde La Rosa
Program: PhD

Romina Vintila
Program: MA
Interests: Quantum Physics, Consciousness, and Ethical Philosophy

Douglas Walters
Program: PhD
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Contemporary European Philosophy.
e-mail: dw5671@gmail.com

For contact information regarding any Graduate students, please contact Graduate Programs Assistant Molly Clasen at mclasen@luc.edu.



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