Former Doctoral Students
For a list of all of SLU's Doctoral Students since 1995 and their placements, please click here!
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Fr. David C. Paternostro, S.J.
Dissertation: "The Problem of Divine Hiddenness"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University.
Caleb Estep
Dissertation: "God, Causal Powers, and the Laws of Nature"
Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Adrian Patrick McCaffery, OP (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2024)
Dissertation: "God's Own Obligations: A Thomistic Account of God's Moral Goodness"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.
Hayden Stephan (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2023)
Dissertation: "Divine Omnipresence: An Exploration of God's Relationship to Space"
Emily McCarty (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2022)
Dissertation: "Theistic Personalism and the Problem of Evil: Why God's Nature Matters in Light of the Problem of Evil"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Samford University
Shannon Sandridge (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2022)
Dissertation: "Willing Together: Severe Cognitive Disability and Second Personal Agency"
Justin Noia (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2021)
Dissertation: "Transformative Suffering"
Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, Providence College (2023-present)
Alexandra Romanyshyn (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2021)
Dissertation: “Schizophrenia and the Self: Integration, Fragmentation, and Being More Ourselves”
Currently: Assistant Professor, Seattle University (2022-present)
Jonathan Nebel (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2021)
Dissertation: "The Nature of Union Between Persons in Love"
Currently: Instructor, Heritage Christian Academy (2021-present)
Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2020)
Dissertation: “An Informed Convergence: Confucian, Thomistic, and Contemporary Appeals to Substantial Form”
Currently : Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University (2021-present)
Fellow of the Thomistic Institute, Rome (2021-present)
Kevin Cutright (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2019)
Dissertation: "The Empathetic Soldier"
Currently: Associate Dean for Character Development, U.S. Military Academy
James Kintz (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2018)
Dissertation: "The Interdependence of Self and Other: A Thomistic Solution to the Problem of Intersubjectivity"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (2022-present)
Matthew Shea (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2018)
Dissertation: "Made for Each Other: A Second-Person Approach to Well-Being and Natural Law-Virtue Ethics"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine
Clinical Ethicist, Houston Methodist Hospital
Audra Goodnight (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2018)
Dissertation: "Second Person Relations: Flourishing and Morality"
Joel Archer (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2017)
Dissertation: "Libertarian Freedom and the Metaphysics of Naturalism"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Asbury Theological Seminary (2024 - Present)
Gideon Jeffrey (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2017)
Dissertation: "Final Causation in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Metaphysics"
Past Positions: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at University of South Alabama and University of Mobile
Jeremy W. Skrzypek (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2016)
Dissertation: "Dynamic Structure or Enduring Activity? Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Neo-Aristotelians on Substantial Form"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University (July 2022)
Robert J. Hartman (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2016)
Dissertation: "A Defense of Moral Luck"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Northern University (Beginning 2022)
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Donald J. Bungum (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2016)
Dissertation: "Expert Disagreement and Epistemic Authority"
Currently: Chair of Philosophy Department at University of Mary, ND (Spring 2022-present)
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Catholic Studies at the University of Mary, ND (Fall 2022-Present)
Daniel Choi (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2016)
Dissertation: "Contriving a Defense for the Sake of the Individual Sufferer: Refuting Plantinga's Felix Culpa Argument"
Currently: Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of Korea (2016-present)
Errin D. Clark (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2015)
Dissertation: "'The Cause of Causality in All Causes': Powers in Contemporary Metaphysics and Potentia in Thomas Aquinas"
Past Position: Headmaster, Chesterton Academy of Milwaukee (2016)
Faith Glavey Pawl (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2014)
Dissertation: "The Problem of Evil and Animal Suffering: A Case Study"
Currently: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, MN (2008-present)
Yong Li (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2012)
Dissertation: "Moral Partiality"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University
Stephen Chanderbhan (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2011)
Dissertation: "'That Your Joy May Be Full': Emotions in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas"
Currently: Associate Professor and Director of Catholic Studies at Canisius College (2011-Present)
Robyn Gaier (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2011)
Dissertation: "Moral Monsters, Autism, and the Knowledge of Persons: A Second-Personal Externalist Account of Moral Motivation"
Currently: Lecturer at Youngstown State University (2018 - Present)
Adam Green (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2010)
Dissertation: "A Virtue Epistemology of the Knowledge of Persons"
Currently: Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma (2021)
Andrew Pinsent (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2009)
Dissertation: "Joint Attention and the Second-Personal Foundation of Aquinas's Virtue Ethics"
Currently: Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Mount St Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology, Cincinnati, and Associate Member, Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University (2025-Present)
Eric Silverman (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2008)
Dissertation: "The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Agent"
Currently: Professor at Christopher Newport University (2022-Present)
James Brent, O.P. (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2008)
Dissertation: "The Epistemic Status of Christian Beliefs in Thomas Aquinas"
Currently: Instructor of Philosophy with the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C.
Timothy Pawl (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2008)
Dissertation: "A Thomistic Account of Truthmakers for Modal Truths"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (2019-Present)
Michael Rota (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2006)
Dissertation: "Causation in Contemporary Metaphysics and in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (2012—Present);
Program Officer, Templeton Religion Trust (2018—Present)
Kevin Timpe (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2004)
Dissertation: "Event-Individuation and the Implications for the Principle of Alternative Possibilities"
Currently: Philosophy Department Chair at Calvin College (2021-present)
Jellema Chair of Christian Philosophy at Calvin College (2016-Present)
Jason Eberl (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2003)
Dissertation: "Analytic and Thomistic Approaches to Human Nature: A Comparative Metaphysical and Bioethical Analysis"
Currently: Hubert Mader Chair in Health Care Ethics and Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Jennifer Hart Weed (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2003)
Dissertation: "A Contemporary Defense of Thomas Aquinas’ Theory of Analogy"
Currently: Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of New Brunswick (2013-present)
Christopher Brown (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2002)
Dissertation: "Pluralism and Material Substance: Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Material Constitution"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin (2013-Present)
Ian DeWeese-Boyd (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2001)
Dissertation: "Self-Deception and Moral Responsibility"
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at Gordon College (2017-present)
Shawn Floyd (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 1997)
Dissertation: "Embodied Practical Reason: The Role of the Body in Aquinas’s Moral Psychology"
Currently: Workforce Consultant and Grant Writer
Stan Tyvoll (Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 1996)
Dissertation: "Free Will and Determinism: The Anselmian Position"
Past Position: Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University
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