Loyola University Chicago

Department of Philosophy

Current Graduate Students

PhD in Philosophy

Italo Alves
Program: PhD
Interests: Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Aesthetics
Email: ialves@luc.edu
Website: www.italoalves.net
 
Simon Babbs
Program: PhD
 
Nathan Berthiaume
Program: PhD
Interests: Nietzsche, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Philosophy in Literature
 
Miguel Ceron Becerra
Program: PhD
Interests: Critical Theory, Affect Theory, Migration Studies
 
Benjamin Crispell
Program: PhD
Interests: Post-Kantian German Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics
 
Thomas Crosby
Program: PhD
Email: tcrosby@luc.edu 
 
LaChanda Davis
Program: PhD
Interests: Platonic Philosophy, Ethics (including healthcare and biomedical), Social and Political Philosophy
Email: ldavis2@luc.edu 
 
Cheryl Fok
Program PhD
Interests: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Alterity
Email: hfok@luc.edu 
 
Rutger Hakkenberg
Program: PhD
Interests: German Idealism, Philosophy of Mind, Meta-ethics and Personal Identity
 
Pooya Heybatollahi
Program: PhD
Interests: Islamic Philosophy, Islamic Theology (Kalam), Islamic Mysticism (Irfan, Sufism), Political Philosophy
 
Rhea Ienni
Program: PhD
Email: rienni@luc.edu 
 
Lillianne John
Program: PhD
Email: ljohn2@luc.edu 
 
Omar Khali
Program: PhD
Email: okhali@luc.edu 
 
R. Andrew Krema
Program: PhD
Email: rkrema@luc.edu 
 
Gina Lebkuecher
Program: PhD
Interests: Ethics, Bioethics, Comparative Ethics, Classical Chinese Philosophy
 
Kevin Mager
Program: PhD
Email: kmager@luc.edu
 
Charlotte Motmans
Program: PhD 
Interests: Contemporary French Philosophy, German Idealism, Psychoanalysis, Queer and Trans Theory
 
Daphne Pons
Program: PhD
Email: dpons@luc.edu 
 
Rene Ramirez
Program: PhD
Interests: Social-Political Philosophy, Decolonial Thought, Indigenous Critical Theory, Critical Philosophy of Race
 
Kit Rempala
Program: PhD
Interests: Bioethics, Phenomenology, Illness and Disabilities Studies
 
Ciaran Rhys
Program: PhD
Email: crhys@luc.edu 
 
Peter Rosa
Program: PhD
Email: prosa@luc.edu 
 
Heather Slawny
Program: PhD
Email: hslawny@luc.edu 
 
Jason Stephens
Program: PhD
Interests: Black Studies and Afropessimism, Ancient Philosophy, the History of Slavery
 
Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
Program: PhD
Interests: Existentialism, Philosophy of Mind, and Neuroethics
Email: mvalerianoflores@luc.edu
 
Kimberly Vargas-Barreto
Program: PhD
 
Donald Young
Program: PhD
Interests: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Metaphysics and Ontology, Social and Political Philosophy

MA in Philosophy

John Alex Carr
Program: MA
Email: jcarr8@luc.edu 
 
Aziz Alfailakawi
Program: MA 
 
Ethan Card 
Program: MA 
Email: ecard@luc.edu
 
Conor Dorn
Program: MA
Email: cdorn@luc.edu 
 
Max Landman, J.S. 
Program: MA
 
Joseph Laughlin, J.S.
Program: MA 
 
Solomon Liebl, J.S.
Program: MA
 
Emmanuel Madu
Program: MA
Email: emadu@luc.edu 
 
William Mastin
Program: MA
 
David Miller
Program: MA
 
Benjamin Rogers, J.S.
Program: MA
 
Neo Scott
Program: MA
 
Nicholas J Signorello
Program: MA
 
Christopher Skinner
Program: MA
 

MA in Social Philosophy

Brian Burtka
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
Christopher Castaneda
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
Geraldine Diaz Guerrero
Program: MA in Social Philosophy 
 
Thomas Doran
Program: MA in social Philosophy 
 
Brennan Dour
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
Email: bdour@luc.edu 
 
Patrick Fenner
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
Email: pfenner@luc.edu 
 
Cyrus Habib
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
Email: khabib@luc.edu 
 
Martin Hasler
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
David Herr
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
Email: dherr2@luc.edu 
 
Ronald Jacobs
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
Richard Joubert
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
Emma Madsen
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
Email: emadsen@luc.edu 
 
Pablo Velasquez
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 
Mario Verde
Jesuit Scholastic
Program: MA in Social Philosophy
 

BA/MA

Amanda Neubarth
Program: BA/MA

For contact information regarding any graduate students, please contact Graduate Program Assistant Miguel Diaz at mdiaz1@luc.edu