Current Graduate Students
Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.
Doctoral Students
Augustina Agyin
Matilda Ajibola
Email: matilda.ajibola@slu.edu
Research Interests: Bioethics, human enhancement, reproductive technologies and social justice.
Brendan Bacon
Email: brendan.bacon@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ethics, history of philosophy, medieval philosophy, and philosophy of religion
Andrew Baldassarre
Email: andy.baldassarre@slu.edu
Research Interests: Bioethics, authenticity and wellbeing, and social metaphysics
Joel Carini
Email: joel.carini@slu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy of language, ethics and moral psychology.
Michael Cevering
Email: michael.cevering@slu.edu
Research Interests: Comparative philosophy, including Asian and continental; ethics; modern philosophy; philosophy of religion, especially Mormon philosophy; skepticism.
Andre Chavez
Email: andre.chavez@slu.edu
Ben Conover
Email: benjamin.conover@slu.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics and philosophy of science.
Isabel Cortens
Email: isabel.cortens@slu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ancient philosophy.
Joel Cox
Email: joel.cox@slu.edu
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, abortion, social ontology, and liberalism.
Maximillien d'Audiffret
Email: maximillien.daudiffret@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ancient philosophy and contemporary analytic metaphysics
Tim Eshing
Email: timothy.eshing@slu.edu
Caleb Estep
Email: caleb.estep@slu.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy. PhilPeople Profile
Cynthia Gonzalez
Email: Cynthia.l.gonzalez@slu.edu
Research Interests: Applied ethics (esp. bioethics and public philosophy), politics, art and aesthetics, and history of philosophy.
Daniel Grasso
Email: daniel.grasso@slu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, metaphysics, friendship, and Dostoevsky.
Ataollah Hashemi
Email: ataollah.hashemi@slu.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of religion.
Rebecca Hicks
Email: rebecca.hicks@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ancient Greek, medieval and neoplatonic philosophy.
Chris Holland
Email: christopher.holland@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ethics (esp. theories of well-being) and philosophy of religion.
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Pawel Jamroz
Email: pawal.jamroz@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ancient and Medieval philosophy, contemporary metaphysics
Hye Kelly
Email: carson.kelly@slu.edu
David Kiblinger
Email: david.kiblinger@slu.edu
Qing Liu
Email: qing.liu@slu.edu
Benjamin Parviz
Email: benjamin.parviz@slu.edu
Research Interests: Hope, despair, Gabriel Marcel, and bioethics.
James Pepe
Email: James.pepe@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and thomistic angelology.
Ryan Powers
Email: ryan.a.powers@slu.edu
Research Interests: Value theory, philosophy of science, history of philosophy.
Nicholas Rao
Email: nicholas.roa@slu.edu
Research Interests: Nicholas Rao is writing his dissertation on the importance of the town as a point of convergence between political community and cultural space.
Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga
Email: pedro.rapallozubillaga@slu.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics, especially social ontology and the philosophy of fiction.
Menashe Roberts
Email: menashechaim.roberts@slu.edu
Virginia Sotelo
Email: virginia.sotelo@slu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.
Alexander Zhang
Email: alexander.h.zhang@slu.edu
Jacob Zimbelman
Email: jacob.zimbelman@slu.edu
Research Interests: Intuition, perception, theory choice, Christian neoplatonism, practical reasoning.
Master's Students
Joseph Culligan (Br. Augustine)
Email: joseph.culligan@slu.edu
Jonathan Drozda
Email: jonathan.drozda@slu.edu
Joseph Hilliker, OP
Email: cullen.hilliker@slu.edu
Research interests: Bioethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.