David Arias
Dissertation: Rediscovering Nature: An Exposition and Defense of the Thomistic Reasoning to Substantional Form and First Matter per Viam Motus, 2012
Currently: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, CA
Sr. Terese Auer, OSF
Dissertation: The Apparent Antinomy of Divine Causality and Human Free Choice, 1989
Currently: Chair, Bioethics Department, Pope John Paul the Great, Dumphries, VA
Mark Barker
Dissertation: The Cognitive Power: Objects and Terminology, 2007
Currently: Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, LA
Keith Bower
Dissertation: The Roots of Mathematics: An Informal Foundationalist Approach, 2001
Currently: Project Management Consultant in oil and gas industry
Robert Bunting
Dissertation: Universals and Laws of Nature, 1998
Currently: IT Infrastructure Manager, Dona Ana County, Las Cruces, NM
James Capehart
Dissertation: Étienne Gilson and the First Two Stages of His Christian Philosophy, 2018
Currently: Teacher, Sacred Heart Apostolic School, Rolling Prairie, IN
Samuel Condic
Dissertation: Hominization and Human Life: Toward a More Integrated Understanding of Human Development, 2009
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Mary, Bismarck, ND
Gregory Coulter
Dissertation: Mind and Body in St. Thomas Aquinas: Some Problems with Aquinas’ Notion That the Intellectual Principle Both Subsists and is a Substantial Form, 1989
Currently: Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Anthony Crifasi
Dissertation: The Philosophical Significance of Cartesian Sensory Physiology, 2009
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS
Domenic D’Ettore
Dissertation: Early Thomists on Demonstration through Analogous Terms, 2012
Currently: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN
Daniel De Haan
Dissertation: Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing: On the Function of the Fundamental Scientific First Principles of Metaphysics, 2015
Currently: Completing a post-doctorate under Professor Sarah Coakley at Cambridge University, on a project that involves three postdoctoral fellows in cosmology, evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience.
Casey Edler
Dissertation: Thomas Aquinas and the ‘Kalam’ Cosmological Argument: Tension at the Heart of Natural Theology, 2016
Currently: Chair of the Philosophy and Theology Division, St. Joseph Seminary College, Saint Benedict, LA
Joseph Hattrup
Dissertation: Form and Predicability in Aristotle's Categories and the Middle Books of the Metaphysics, 2013
Currently: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, CA
Brian Kemple
Dissertation: Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition: The Philosophy of Being as First Known
Currently: Founder of Continuum Philosophical Insight, a private philosophical education practice bringing thinking beyond the university.
Sr. Anne Francis Le, OP
Dissertation: Nudus Sequens?: St. Thomas Aquinas on Poverty and Christian Perfection, 2014
Currently: Instructor, St. Mark’s College and Corpus Christi College, Vancouver CA
R. Mary Hayden Lemmons
Dissertation: Love and the First Principles of St. Thomas’ Natural Law
Currently: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Edward Lyons
Dissertation: Models of Intentional Action, Freedom and the Possibility of Moral Responsibility, 1998
Currently: Associate Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law
John Macias
Dissertation: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Flourishing Human Being and Small-Scale Political Communities
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, Menlo Park, California
Joseph Magee, II
Dissertation: Unmixing the Intellect: Aristotle on Cognitive Powers and Bodily Organs, 1999
Currently: Director of the Catholic Student Center, Lecturer in Philosophy, Sam Houston State University
Thomas McLaughlin
Dissertation: The Aristotelian Definition of Motion and the Principal of Intertia, 2001
Currently: Associate Professor, Pre-Theology Faculty, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
Andrea Messineo
Dissertation: Incommensurability in MacIntyre and Popper, 2008
Currently: Marriage and Family Therapist; Member of American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Matthew Moore
Dissertation: Did Aquinas Teach a State of Pure Nature for the Human Being?, 2020
Currently: Assistant Professor, Del Mar College
Jordan Olver
Dissertation: Bonum Nostrum: Eudaimonism and Love of Others for Their Own Sake According to Thomas Aquinas, 2014
Currently: Philosophy Instructor, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
Steven Peña
Dissertation: Onus Probandi: An Attempt to Locate the Burden of Proof in the Existential Theistic Debate, 2015
Currently: Professor of Philosophy at San Jacinto College
Catherine Peters
Dissertation: The Causality of “Nature” in Avicenna’s Physics of the Healing, 2019
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Rickert
Dissertation: The Starting Point of the Fifth Way, 1997
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary’s College of Minnesota
Jean William Rioux
Dissertation: Aristotle, Aquinas and the Foundations of Arithmetic, 1990
Currently: Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Benedictine College
Nelson Ramirez-Santa
Dissertation: From the Natural Understanding of Truth, to Aquinas’s adaequatio rei et intellectus Definition of Truth, and Beyond, 2017
Currently: Lecturer in Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Charles Robertson
Dissertation: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and Embryo Rescue, 2017
Currently: Theology Adjunct, Newman Theological College, Edmonton, AB
Austen Rockcastle
Dissertation: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Morality of Lying, 1993
Currently: Tutor, Chesterton Academy, a private, independent high school
John Skalko
Dissertation: Why Is It Intrinsically Evil to Violate the Purpose of a Power or Use Assertions Unnaturally? (2018)
Currently: Professor of Philosophy, St. John's Seminary, Brighton, MA
Ben Smith
Dissertation: Thomas Aquinas on Politics and the Common Good, 2008
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Aquinas College, Nashville, TN
Steve Striby
Dissertation: Against the Principles of Nominalism, 2007
Currently: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston TX
Scott Sullivan
Dissertation: Nihil Est Sine Ratione: A Defense of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, 2014
Currently: Owner and Chief Instructor, Bam Bam Martial Arts; Owner of Classical Theist Productions
Sherra Theissen
Dissertation: A Dialectical Analysis of the Intrasubjective Relationship Between the Intellect and the Will in Hannah Arendt and Thomas Aquinas, 1997
Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX
Daniel C. Wagner
Dissertation: φύσις καί τὸ ἀνθρώπινον ἀγαθὸν: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Human Good
Currently: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Jinnam Yi
Dissertation: Divine Command Theory and Natural Law Ethics in St. Thomas Aquinas: Reply to the Euthyphro Question
Currently: Donduk Women’s University, South Korea
Karen Zedlick
Dissertation: Contemplation, First Among Equals, 1993
Currently: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College