Current Doctoral Students

Veronica Arntz

M.A. Augustine Institute
B.A. Wyoming Catholic College

Concentration Historical Theology
Areas of interest Eucharistic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, ecclesiology, nature, grace, and humanity's knowledge of God

Luke Beavers

Th.M. Duke Divinity School

M.A., MDiv  Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

B.S. Liberty University

Concentration:  Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity

Areas of Interest:  Gospels (esp. Luke-Acts and John), Second Temple Judaism, Canonical and Theological Exegesis

Patrick L. Bowman

Th.M. St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
M.A. St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
M.Div. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
B.S. University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Concentration Historical Theology
Areas of interest Theology of repentance in early Christianity, Epistle to the Hebrews, ecumenism and intra-Christian conversion

Patrick Conlin

M.A. Theology, Marquette University, 2019
B.A. Christian Ministries, Trinity International University, 2012

Concentration Historical Theology
Areas of interest Syriac Theology, Gender roles in antiquity, Liberation theology

Shayla Covington

M.A. Iliff School of Theology
B.A. Creighton University

Concentration Systematic Theology/Theological Ethics
Areas of interest Self-Knowledge, Identity, Nonreligious Identities and Secularity, Grief and Loss, Feminist Theology, Queer Theology

Colin Destache

B.S. University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point

M.Div. Yale University

Concentration:  Systematic Theology

Areas of Interest:  Indigenous Studies and Sports

Joseph M. Diaz

B.A. Concordia University Wisconsin

M.A. Marquette University

Concentration:  Historical Theology

Areas of Interest:  Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Spirituality, Mariology, Law, and Dionysian/Platonic echoes

Daniella Goldfarb

M.T.S. Duke Divinity School
B.A. American University

Concentration Historical Theology
Areas of interest History of Biblical Interpretation, Eucharistic Theology During the Reformation, Christian Mysticism

Vance Halfaker

M.Div. Brite Divinity School

B.A. Southwest Baptist University 

Concentration:  Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity

Areas of Interest:  Gospel of John, Doctrine of the Trinity, and Theology of Scripture

Rev. Silas M. Hasselbrook

B.A. Concordia University Wisconsin
M.Div. Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne

Concentration Systematic Theology/Theological Ethics
Areas of interest Person and personhood, bioethics/health care ethics, fourth and fifth century Patristics

Rev. Micah Hogan

M.Div. Nashotah House Theological Seminary
B.A. Biola University

Concentration Historical Theology
Areas of interest Theological conceptions of Eros, Greek and Byzantine Patristics, Christian Platonisms

Luyen Ngo

B.A. Ha Noi University, Vietnam

B.A. Mount Mary University

M.A. Villanova University

Concentration:  Theoloical Ethics

Areas of Interest:  Bioethics, Assisted Reproductive Technology in Contemporary Vietnamese culture and infertile couples

Hayden McDermott

M.Div. Western Seminary
B.A. University of California, Davis

Concentration Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity
Areas of interest Theodicy, Hellenistic Judaism, Philosophy and Christian Theology

Sr. Ngoc Nguyen, LHC

MTS Villanova University, Villanova, PA
MA Aquinas Institute of Theology, Saint Louis, MO
BA Hanoi University, Vietnam

Areas of interest: Confucianism-Christian theology, ethics of sex and gender, feminist theology
Dissertation: Responding to the Influence of Confucianism on Vietnamese Catholic Women: Constructing and Implementing a Vietnamese Women’s Phụ Nữ Theology.

Director: Dr. Conor Kelly

Caitlyn Proietta

M.T.S. Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

B.A. College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

Areas of Interest:  Systematic Theology/Theological Ethics

Areas of Interest:  Theology and Literature, Mariology

Michael Proietta

B.A. Boston College

M.T.S Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

Concentration:  Systematic Theology/Theological Ethics

Areas of Interest:  St. Thomas Aquinas and 20th Century Thomism, Theological Aesthetics and Virtue Ethics, Theological Reception of 19th and 20th Century Philosophy

Dissertation: "L'art pour I'art"?:  The Infused-Acquired Duplex Ordo of Art as an Intellectual Virtue

Director:  Andrew Kim

Cody Sandschafer

B.A. Marian University

M.A. Boston College

M.A. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology

Concentration:   Systematic Theology/Theological Ethics
Areas of interest:  Bernard Lonergan, 20^th Century Continental Philosophy, René Girard, and Memory

Dissertation:  The Site of Human Conscious Participation in Sanctifying Grace

Directors:   Joseph Obgonnaya

Rachel Sheils

M.A. Augustine Institute

B.A.  Booth University College

Concentration:  Systematic Theology  and Theological Ethics

Areas of Interest:  Subsidiarity and Service to the Poor, "New Evangelism" and the process of conversion, Ecumenical and Interfaith Dialogue

Jennifer Wotochek

M.A. Regent College

B.S. Northwestern University

Concentration:  Theology and Society

Areas of Interest:  Menopause, Aging, Animal Theology & Ethics, Ecotheology, Political Theology