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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

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

Aidan Sprague-Rice
Program: MA

Graham Steers
Program: MA

Joel Stenftenagel
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

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