Ph.D. Students

         
  • Matthew J. Advent
    Matthew J. Advent

    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate
    advent@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, Benedictine College, 2015
    M.A. Philosophy, Florida State University, 2019
    Ph.L. Philosophy, Catholic University of America, 2022
    Interests: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature and Metaphysics, History of Economics
    Cirriculum Vitae

  • Michael J. Bors
    Michael J. Bors

    Ph.D. Candidate
    92bors@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-08
    B.A. Philosophy and Theology, Thomas Aquinas College, 2015
    Ph.L. Philosophy, Catholic University of America, 2019
    Interests: Ancient and Medieval logic, Philosophy of Nature, Metaphysics

  • Genevieve Frank Buono
    Genevieve Frank Buono

    Ph.D. Student
    frankg@cua.edu
    B.A. English, University of Dallas, 2019
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2022
    Interests: Edith Stein, Aesthetics, Theory of Education
    Curriculum Vitae

  • Sean Foley
    Sean Foley

    Graduate Teaching Fellow,  Ph.D. Candidate
    foleysp@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-24
    B.A. European Intellectual History, B.A. Russian & Eastern European Studies,  Wesleyan University, 2010
    M.A. Liberal Arts,  St. John's College-Annapolis, 2018
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2023
    Interests: Phenomenology, Epistemology and Metaphysics, History of Philosophy
    Personal Website  |  Curriculum Vitae

  • Joseph Gazaille
    Joseph Gazaille

    Graduate Fellow - Institute for Human Ecology, Ph.D. Student
    gazaille@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-22
    B.A. Philosophy, Providence College, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2022
    Interests: Ancient Ethics, Philosophy and Literature

  • Peter Haskett
    Peter Haskett

    Graduate Teaching Fellow,  Ph.D. Candidate
    haskett@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-10
    B.A. Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University, 2014

    M.A. Political Science, Carleton University, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, Dominican University College, 2018
    Interests: Plato and Aristotle, Philosophy of Nature, History of Political Philosophy

  • Bridget Groff Haskett
    Bridget Groff Haskett

    Ph.D. Candidate
    groff@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-09
    B.A. Philosophy, The University of St. Thomas-Texas, 2018
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2021
    Interests: Modern Philosophy, 18th-19th c. French and German Philosophy, Aesthetics

  • Monica Jeffery
    Monica Jeffery

    Book Review Editor for National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Ph.D. Candidate
    burkemg@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, Christendom College, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2021

    Interests: P olitical Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy

  • Brian Killackey
    Brian Killackey

    Visiting Assistant Professor, Belmont Abbey College
    Ph.D. Candidate

    killackey@cua.edu
    B.A. Classics, B.A. Philosophy, Christendom College, 2012
    M.A. Philosophy,  The Catholic University of America, 2020
    Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Medieval Philosophy
    Curriculum Vitae

  • Bridget Safranek Knuffke
    Bridget Safranek Knuffke

    Ph.D. Candidate
    safranek@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, University of Dallas, 2017
    Ph.L. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2020
    Interests: St. Thomas Aquinas, Ethics, Political Philosophy

  • Daryl Li
    Daryl Li

    Graduate Fellow - Institute for Human Ecology,  Ph.D. Candidate
    lid@cua.edu
    Caldwell Hall, Room 326
    B.A. Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2008
    M.A. Liberal Arts,  St. John's College-Annapolis, 2010
    Interests: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy

  • Fr. Daniel Martin
    Fr. Daniel Martin

    Chair of Philosophy Department
    St. John Vianney College Seminary, Miami, FL
    Ph.D. Candidate

    25martind@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, Fordham University, 2007
    M.Div., St. Vincent De Paul Regional Seminary, 2013

    Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Economics

  • Elisabeth Parish
    Elisabeth Parish

    Ph.D. Candidate
    58parish@cua.edu
    B.A. Applied Linguistics, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 1999
    M.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College-Annapolis, 2010
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2017 

    Interests: Aristotelian & Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics, Analytic Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, Bioethics
    Curriculum Vitae

  • Phillip Piper
    Phillip Piper

    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate
    piperp@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-21
    B.A. Philosophy, Eastern University, 2020
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2022
    Interests: Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Miriam Pritschet
    Miriam Pritschet

    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D. Student
    pritschet@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-17
    B.A. Religious Studies, St. Michael’s College, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2023
    Interests: Thomistic Metaphysics, Divine Causality

  • Alex Rogers
    W. Alex Rogers III

    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D. Student
    rogersw@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-31
    B.A. Philosophy, B.M. Music Performance, University of Maryland-College Park, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, M.A. Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 2021
    Interests: Phenomenology, Aesthetics

  • Conor Stark
    Conor Stark

    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate
    starkc@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-04
    B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Classical Literature, Wake Forest University, 2015
    M.T.S. Systematic Theology, Notre Dame, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2022

    Interests: Ancient Metaphysics, Arab Philosophy, Latin Scholasticism, German Idealism, Heidegger
    Personal Website   |    Cirriculum Vitae

M.A./Ph.L. Students

  • Mathias Bishop
    Mathias Bishop

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    bishopma@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-15
    B.A. Philosophy and Classics, Florida State University, 2023
    Interests: Ethics, Medieval Philosophy

  • Michael Bishop
    Michael Bishop

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    bishopmi@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-27
    B.A. Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College-California, 2023
    Interests: Thomistic Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics

  • Ana Botelho
    Ana Botelho

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    botelho@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-19
    B.A. Theology,  Providence College, 2023
    Interests: Bioethics, Applied Phenomenology

  • Isabel Condon
    Isabel Condon

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    condoni@cua.edu
    B.A. English Literature, B.A. Philosophy, Seton Hall University, 2023
    Interests: Ethics, Aesthetics

  • Charles G. Connellan
    Charles G. Connellan

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    connellanc@cua.edu
    B.S. Business Administration, B.S. Economics, Washington and Lee University, 2017
    Interests: Philosophy of Law, Latin Scholasticism, Epistemology, Political Philosophy

  • A. Forgét
    A. Forgét

    Neihaus Fellow, Terminal M.A. Student
    forgeta@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, University of Dallas, 2022
    Interests: Philosophy of Gender, Hylomorphism, Mind-Body Dualism

  • Matthew McShurley
    Matthew McShurley

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    mcshurley@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy,  Christendom College, 2021
    Interests: Medieval Logic, Metaphysics

  • Farheen Proctor
    Farheen Proctor

    M.A./Ph.D. Student
    maqbool@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy,  Yale University, 2019
    Interests: Phenomenology, Epistemology, Aesthetics

  • Jordan Raum
    Jordan Raum

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    raum@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-13
    B.A. Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College-California, 2022

    Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind

  • Nick Schaffield
    Nick Schaffield

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    schaffield@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-14
    B.A. Philosophy, Hillsdale College, 2022
    Interests: Scholastic Metaphysics, Natural Theology 

  • Daniel Schmidt
    Daniel R. Schmidt III

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    schmidtdr@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-23
    B.S. Mathematics, University of Kansas, 2021
    Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Human Nature

  • Daniel Siciliano
    Daniel Siciliano

    Book Review Editor for the Review of Metaphysics, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    sicilianod@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 223
    B.A. Philosophy, B.B.A. Applied Information Management Systems, Loyola Marymount University, 2019
    Interests: Aristotelian Ethics and Moral Psychology, Phenomenology

  • Francisco "Bino" Socrates
    Francisco "Bino" Socrates

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    socrates@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-20
    B.A. Sociology, University of Santo Tomas-Manila, 2017
    M.A. Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin, 2020
    M.A. Human Rights, The Catholic University of America, 2022

    Interests: Ethics, Neo-Aristotelian Ethics, Action Theory 

  • Jane Spencer
    Jane Spencer

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    spencerjm@cua.edu
    Aquinas Hall, Room 200A-11
    B.A. Art, B.A. Philosophy, Benedictine College, 2021
    Interests: Thomistic Ethics, Philosophical Psychology

  • Maisy Sullivan
    Maisy Sullivan

    Terminal M.A. Student
    sullivanmf@cua.edu
    Fr. O'Connell Hall, 4th Floor
    B.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2023

    Interests: Metaphysics, Ethics

  • Tomas Villacis

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    villacis@cua.edu
    B.S. Mathematics, Seton Hall University, 2018
    M.A. Philosophy, Mount St. Mary's University, 2024
    Interests: Metaphysics, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

  • Nico Walz
    Nico Walz

    Graduate Research Assistant, M.A./Ph.D. Student
    walzn@cua.edu
    B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Classical Philology, University of Dallas, 2024
    Interests: Metaphysics, Ethics, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy