Dissertations & Placements
Dissertations
Ph.D. Defenses 2024-2025
Jean-Paul Juge - The Ecclesiology of Origen's Homilies on the Psalms, Prof. David Hunter, dissertation director
Sarah Livick-Moses - The Icon of Divinity: Sophia, Trinity, and Creation in Sergeii Bulgakov, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Brett McLaughlin, SJ - Reign over Envy: The Kingdom of God's Subversion of Conflictual Desires, Prof. Brian Robinette, dissertation director
Jamie Myrose - Everything is Friendship: Towards a More Relational Theological Anthropology, Prof. Brian Robinette, dissertation director
Brett O'Neill, SJ - Migration Governance for the Global Common Good: Immigration Regulation in Catholic Social Teaching, Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director
Peter Vale - Echoes of the Exodus in Jerome’s Vulgate Judith, Prof. Angela Kim Harkins, dissertation director
Qi Zeng - Toward a Chinese Universal Ethic, Prof. Cathy Kaveny dissertation director
Ph.D. Defenses 2023-2024
Domenik Ackerman - Prayer and Memory: What Christian Theology Can Learn from Jewish Practice, Prof. Dr. Ruth Langer, dissertation director
Robert Elliot - The Imago Trinitatis: Towards an Analogy of Interpersonal Mind, Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director
Dunstan Enzor, O.S.B. - The Law is a Shadow: The Anti-Marcionite Tradition of Reading Psalm 118, Prof. Brian Dunkle, S.J., dissertation director
Peter Fay - A Roman Catholic Account of the Flourishing and Virtuous Agency of People with Schizophrenia in the United States, Prof. Stephen J. Pope, dissertation director
Nicholas Hayes-Mota - Practicing the Common Good: Catholic Tradition, Community Organizing, and the Virtues of Democratic Politics, Prof. M. Cathleen Kaveny, dissertation director
Austin J. Foley Holmes - Political Theology in Origen of Alexandria, Prof. David G. Hunter and Prof. Samuel Fernández, dissertation co-directors
Robin Landrith - The Debt of Love in the Theology of Richard of St. Victor, Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman, dissertation director
Nozomi (Sophia) Miura, R.S.C.J. - A Journey around the Comma Johanneum: Transmission History and Interpretation of 1 John 5:6-8, Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director
Katie Mahowski Mylroie - Cultivating Insight through Comparing Cycles: How Comparison with the Hindu Kali Tradition Can Enrich the Christian Understanding, of Life, Death, and Resurrection, Prof. Catherine Cornille, dissertation director
Hilary Ogonna Nwainya - Addressing the Need for Recognition: A Fundamental and Constitutive Point of Departure for Catholic Social Ethics, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director
Laurel Marshall Potter - “Que Esta Misa nos Haga Soñar”: In(ter)culturación Litúrgica y la Recepción Nuestramericana de Sacrosanctum Concilium, Prof. Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, O.P., dissertation director
Chanelle Robinson - Entangled Poetics: Womanist and Decolonial Expansions of the Imago Dei, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Dhinakaran Savariyar - A Theological Ethical Framework for Dalit Lifeworld: ‘Hope in Justice’ as Liberative Praxis in India, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director
Byron Wratee - Howard Thurman’s Theological Anthropology: A Mystical Political Response to Anti-Black Violence, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Ph.D. Defenses 2022-2023
Sara-Bernard Hoverstad - From Religious Cosmology to Environmental Praxis: Empowering Agency for Sustainable Social Change – Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director
John Carter - The Communitarian Conscience: A Theological Response to the Legal Debates about Religious Freedom – Prof. Cathy Kaveny, dissertation director
Joseph (Joe) Collins - The Love of Truth and The Truth of Love: Retrieving Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship of Understanding and Love – Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director
Robert (Zac) Karanovich - Conversion in a World of Violence: Toward a Theology of Conversion with Johann Baptist Metz, James Alison, and Thomas Merton – Prof. Brian Robinette, dissertation director
John Kern - Charismatic Christ, Charismatic Church: The Development of the Gratia Gratis Data in Thomas Aquinas's Theology in Light of the Summa Halensis – Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director
Lindsay Marcellus - Perfecting Ecological Rationality: Acknowledging Sin and the Cardinal Virtue of Humility – Prof. James Keenan, dissertation director
Emma McDonald - Forming Agents, Forming Families: Moral Agency in the Context of Procreation – Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director
Bethany Slater - Becoming Wholehearted: Constructing a Jewish Liturgical Asceticism – Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director
Stephen Surh - Visibile Parlare: An Essay on Dante's Commedia – Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director
Drew (Andrew) Gertner Belfield – Foundations of Scholastic Christology in the Summa Halensis – Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director
Jonathan Cahill – Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics: Rereading Karl Barth – Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director
Eduardo Gonzales – Neighboring the Invisible: Liberation Theologies, the Exodus Narrative, and the Specter of Canaan – Prof. Roberto Goizueta, dissertation director
Brian Himes – Max Scheler on Love and Human Dignity: The Wertkern as Resolving the Aporia of Dialogical and Metaphysical Personalism on the Knowledge of Persons – Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director
Spencer (Kyle) Johnson – Discernment at the Periphery: Race, Coloniality, And the Demonic – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Jennifer Lamson-Scribner – Disorder and Distortion: A Theological Approach to Addiction – Prof. Stephen Pope, dissertation director
Christopher McLaughlin – The Pneumatology of Marius Victorinus: a Rhetorical, Philosophical, and Theological Commentary On Adversus Arium III – Prof. Brian Dunkle, dissertation director
Xavier Montecel – Communion in Hope: Liturgy and Ethics in The Key of Virtue – Prof. Jim Keenan, dissertation director
Michael VanZandt Collins – Climate Change, Virtue, and Moral Agency: An Essay in Muslim-Christian Comparative Theological Ethics – Prof. Catherine Cornille and Prof. Jim Keenan, co-directors
Andrew T. Vink – Ellacuría's Tripartite Salvation: A Historical-Soteriological Response to The Crisis of Neoliberalism – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Nathan Wood-House – Toward an Anti-Racist Political Theology: Reading Johann Baptist Metz and James H. Cone against American Anti-Black Necropolitics – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Derek Brown – Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Aimee Hein – History and Responsibility: An Ecumenical Response to Migration in the United States – Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director
Benjamin Hohman – Grace and Emergence: Towards an Ecological and Evolutionary Foundation for Theology – Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director
Elyse Raby – Towards an Intercorporeal Body of Christ: A Study in Ecclesial Body Images – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Jonathan Bailes - Becoming Like God in Christ: Nicene Theology and Christian Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa – Prof. Khaled Anatolios, dissertation director
Kimberly Bauser McBrien - “…remembering what the Savior had said”: Social Memory and the Sayings of Jesus Tradition – Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director
Jinyong Choi - Analogy, Spirituality and the Beatific Enjoyment of God: Bonaventure and the Doctrine of Likeness – Prof. Emeritus Stephen Brown, dissertation director
Peter Folan, SJ - Matters of Interpretation: Biblical Methodology in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue on the Doctrine of Justification – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Hans Harmakaputra - The Community of Friends of God: Comparative Theology and the Construction of an Inclusive Theology of Saints – Prof. James Morris, dissertation director
Won-Jae Hur - Corporeality in Contemplation: A Comparative Study of Edith Stein and Tibetan Buddhist Lojong – Prof. John Makransky, dissertation director
Jaisy A. Joseph - Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Léocadie Lushombo, it. - Imagining an Ethics of Political Participation For Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sophialogical Hermeneutic – Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director
Andrew Massena - Torah for Its own Sake: The Decalogue in Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis – Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE - Cur Deus Cruciatus?: Lonergan’s Law of the Cross and the Transpositions of “Justice over Power” – Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director
Annie Selak - Toward an Ecclesial Vision in the Shadow of Wounds – Prof. Nancy Pineda Madrid, dissertation director
Marcel Uwineza, S.J. – Reconciling Memories: A Theology from a Place of Wounds: No Authentic Theology with my Back Turned to Nyamata – Prof Emerita M. Shawn Copeland, dissertation director
Daniel Vos – Some of the Other Works of the Torah: Boundaries and Inheritance as Legal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish Literature – Prof. David Vanderhooft, dissertation director
Robert J. Brodrick – Charismatic and Pastoral Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of the CDF Investigation of Leonardo Boff – Richard Gaillardetz
David Clint Burnett – Psalm 110:1 In Confessional Material In Corpus Paulinum: Cultural and Religious Context – Pheme Perkins
Ryan Duns – Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond’s Theological Achievement – Brian Robinette
Charles Thomas Fraatz – Blessed Is the One Who Reads and Those Who Hear the Words of Prophecy: Rome and Revelation’s Use of Scripture – Pheme Perkins
David Kwon – A Study of the Role of Jus Post Bellum in the 21st Century: Human Security and Political Reconciliation – Kenneth Himes, O.F.M.
Katherine Jackson-Meyer – Tragic Dilemmas and Virtue A Christian Feminist View – Lisa Cahill
Samuel Keyes – Here for Medicine, There for Delight: The Ecclesial Mysteries of the Victorine Speculum – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Joseph Mben – Empowering Disempowered Working Women: A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics – Lisa Sowle Cahill
Megan McCabe – Sex, Power, and Violence on the College Campus: Rape Culture and Complicity in Evil – James Keenan, SJ
Ty Monroe – The Development of Augustine's Early Soteriology – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Kate Mroz – No Salvation Apart from Religious Others: Edward Schillebeeckx's Soteriology as a Resource for Understanding Christian Identity and Discipleship in a Religiously Pluralist World – Mary Ann Hinsdale
Teva Regule – Identity, Formation, Transformation: The Liturgical Movement of the 20th Century and the Liturgical Reform Efforts of New Skete Monastery – John Baldovin, SJ
Jennifer Sanders – The Trinitarian Telos of the Summa theologiae: Thomas’s Application of the Aristotelian Ordo Disciplinae to Sacra Doctrina in light of his Augustinian Heritage – Dominic Doyle
Clifton Stringer – Becoming One in the Paschal Mystery: Christ, Spirituality, and Theology in Hugh of St. Victor – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Veronica Tierney – For Us and For Our Salvation: Revelation and Imitation in Cyril of Alexandria – Douglass Finn
Katherine Wrisley Shelby – The Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace – Stephen Brown
Michael Cagney – “The Problem of Big Food and the Response of an Integrated Catholic Ecological Ethic”
Timothy J. Carey – “Remove the Harm, Lord of Men, and Give Healing”: Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya”
Jessica Coblentz – “Depression’s Challenge to Theologies of Suffering and Salvation”
Nicholas P. DiSalvatore – “The Notion of Faith in the Early Latin Theology of Bernard Lonergan”
James Daryn Henry – “The Freedom of God: A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson”
Daniel P. Horan, OFM. – “Imagining Planetarity: Toward a Postcolonial Franciscan Theology of Creation”
Joel B. Kemp – “A Case for Identity: The Book of Ezekiel, Juridical Diction, and Judahite Identity”
Nathaniel N. L. Peters – “The Trinitarian Dimensions of Cistercian Eucharistic Theology”
John R. Barker, OFM – Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai
Stephanie Corigliano – Towards a Hermeneutic of Yoga in Modern Times: A Comparative Study of Practice and Detachment in Hinduism and Christianity
Maria Angela Socorro S. Cruz – Prophets Likewise: An Exploration of the Prophetic Office of the Laity as an Expression of the Sensus Fidelium
Marianne Tierney Fitzgerald – Theology and Activism in Latin America: A Reflection on Jon Sobrino’s Christology of the Resurrection and Grassroots Organizations Protesting Gender-Based Violence
Nichole Flores – Guadalupe in the Public Square: Religious Aesthetics and the Pursuit of Justice
Christopher D. Jones – “The Midday Demon': A Moral, Theological, and Biopsychosocial Analysis of Acedia”
Monica Jalandoni Nalupta – Filipino Fortitude
James O’Sullivan – Development as Human Rights: An Examination of Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Development
Cristina Richie – Moving Environmental Bioethics into the 21st Century: Green Bioethics and the Common Good
Kate Ward – Wealth, Poverty and Economic Inequality: A Christian Virtue Response
Stanislaus Subba Reddy Alla, “Care and Access: Catholic and Hindu Approaches to Ethics in Healthcare”
Anthony P. Coleman, “Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence”
Christopher R. Conway, “Liberative Service: A Comparative Theological Reflection on Dalit Theology's Service and Swami Vivekananda's Seva”
Jeremy V. Cruz, “Social Equality in Recent Catholic Social Thought: Toward an Ethic of Global Social Equality”
John P. Edwards, “Developing a ″Theology in the Order of Discovery″: The Method and Contribution of James Alison”
Conor M. Kelly, “Service And Justice, Peace and Solidarity: Theology And Ethics For Work And Leisure”
Nicole L. Reibe, “Preaching Participation: The Theology Of Achard Of St. Victor”
Robert J. Rivera, “A Christology of Liberation in an Age of Globalization and Exclusion: The Contributions of Jon Sobrino and Edward Schillebeeckx”
Andrew B. Salzmann, “The Holy Spirit And The Life Of The Christian According To Hugh Of St. Victor: Dator Et Donum, Cordis Omne Bonum”
Brian Traska, “Philosophy as Faith Seeking Understanding An Interpretation of Bernard Lonergan’s 1972 Lectures on Philosophy of God and Systematic Theology”
Jennifer S. Wade, “Resisting Violence through the Meditative Body: A Theological Anthropology of Transformational Anger in Judith Butler and The Revelations of Divine Love”
Glenn Willis, “Drive All Blames into One: Rhetorics of 'Self-Blame' and Refuge in Tibetan Buddhist Lojong, Nietzsche, and the Desert Fathers”
Thomas F. Burke, “Self –Emptying Love: Kenosis, Sacraments and the Church,” directed by Frederick Lawrence
Benjamin Durheim, “Christ’s Gift, Our Response: Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics,” directed by John Baldovin, S.J.
Katie Grimes, “Christ Divided: White Supremacy as a Corporate Vice in the Body of Christ,” directed by James Keenan, S.J.
Michael Jaycox, “Righteous Anger and Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Anger in Service to Justice,” directed by James Keenan, S.J.
Matthew Kruger, “The Freedom of the Mind for God: Reflexivity and Spiritual Exercises in Thomas Aquinas,” directed by Stephen Brown
Emma O’Donnell, “The Liturgical Transformation of Time: Memory and Eschatological Anticipation in Christian and Jewish Liturgy,” directed by John Baldovin, S.J.
Erik John Ranstrom, “The Unknown Body of Christ: Towards a Retrieval of the Early Panikkar’s Christology of Religions,” directed by Catherine Cornille
Katherine Richman, "Salvation in "Catholic Boston": Father Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center, 1941- 1949" directed by Thomas Wangler
Autumn Alcott Ridenour, “Union With Christ for the Aging: A consideration of Aging and Death in the Theology of St. Augustine and Karl Barth,” directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Raymond Ward, “Collectives in Christian Ethics: A Study of Reinhold Niebuhr and Jacques Maritain,” directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Kevin Ahern, "Structures of Grace: Catholic Nongovernmental Organizations and the Mission of the Church," directed by David Hollenbach
Hoa Trung Dinh, SJ, "Theological Medical Ethics: A Virtue-base Approach," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Walter Hannam, "The Ineutabile of Honorius Augustodunensis: A Study in the textures of early Twelfth-Century Augustinianisms," directed by Stephen Brown
Jill O'Brien, "Images of God, Roles of Humanity, and Ecological Ramifications: Hope and Realism in the Renewal of Creation," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Steve Okey, "The Plural and Ambiguous Self: The Theological Anthropology of David Tracy," directed by Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM
Jeremy Sabella, "The Politics of Original Sin: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and its Cold War Realist," directed by Michael Himes
Rene Sanchez, "Agapic Solidarity: Practicing the Love Command in a Globalized Reality," directed by Roberto Goizueta
Placements
Jean-Paul Juge - Augustine Institute School of Theology, Père Marquette Teaching Fellow
Sarah Livick-Moses - Gannon University, Assistant Professor, Philosophy/Theology Department
Brett McLaughlin, SJ - Fairfield University, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Jamie Myrose - Gannon University, Assistant Professor, Philosophy/Theology Department
Brett O'Neill, SJ - Jesuit Refugee Services, Country Director, Australia
Peter Vale - Archdiocese of New Orleans, Formation for Diocesan Priesthood
Qi Zeng - Georgetown University, Post-Doctoral Visiting Researcher, East Asian Languages and Cultures
2023-2024
Domenik Ackerman - University of Paderborn (Germany), Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Elliot - Providence College, Visiting Assistant Professor
Dunstan Enzor, O.S.B. - Saint Anselm College, Part-Time Adjunct Professor of History of Christianity
Peter Fay - Villanova University, Catherine of Siena Postdoctoral Scholar
Nicholas Hayes-Mota - Santa Clara University, Assistant Professor in Social Ethics
Austin J. Foley Holmes - Loyola Marymount University, Bellarmine Fellow in Theological Studies and Early Christianity
Robin Landrith - Loyola University Maryland, Assistant Professor of Theology
Nozomi (Sophia) Miura, R.S.C.J. - Boston College, Part-time Faculty
Katie Mahowski Mylroie - Boston College, Part-time Faculty
Hilary Ogonna Nwainya - St. Thomas University (Miami, FL), Assistant Professor and Director of Theology Programs
Laurel Marshall Potter - University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN), Assistant Professor of Liberation Theologies
Chanelle Robinson - College of the Holy Cross, Assistant Professor of Theology
Dhinakaran Savariyar - St. Paul’s Institute of Theology (Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India), Assistant Professor of Moral Theology
Byron Wratee - Loyola University Maryland, Postdoctoral Fellow
Sara Bernard-Hoverstad – Gonzaga University, Office of Mission and Ministry
John Carter – Wake Forest University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (School of Law) and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Law, and Public Life (Wake Forest University School of Divinity)
Joseph (Joe) Collins
Robert (Zac) Karanovich – Mount Mary University, Assistant Professor
John Kern – Pepperdine University, Seaver College, Visiting Instructor of Religion and Great Books
Lindsay Marcellus – Carnegie- Mellon University, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Communications Specialist
Emma McDonald – Villanova University, Assistant Professor
Bethany Slater – Claremont Colleges Hillel, Executive Director
Stephen Surh – Wellesley College, Visiting Lecturer in Italian Studies
Drew (Andrew) Gertner Belfield – Foundations of Scholastic Christology in the Summa Halensis – Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director
Jonathan Cahill – Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics: Rereading Karl Barth – Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director
Eduardo Gonzales – Neighboring the Invisible: Liberation Theologies, the Exodus Narrative, and the Specter of Canaan – Prof. Roberto Goizueta, dissertation director
Brian Himes – Max Scheler on Love and Human Dignity: The Wertkern as Resolving the Aporia of Dialogical and Metaphysical Personalism on the Knowledge of Persons – Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director
Spencer (Kyle) Johnson – Discernment at the Periphery: Race, Coloniality, And the Demonic – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Jennifer Lamson-Scribner – Disorder and Distortion: A Theological Approach to Addiction – Prof. Stephen Pope, dissertation director
Christopher McLaughlin – The Pneumatology of Marius Victorinus: a Rhetorical, Philosophical, and Theological Commentary On Adversus Arium III – Prof. Brian Dunkle, dissertation director
Xavier Montecel – Communion in Hope: Liturgy and Ethics in The Key of Virtue – Prof. Jim Keenan, dissertation director
Michael VanZandt Collins – Climate Change, Virtue, and Moral Agency: An Essay in Muslim-Christian Comparative Theological Ethics – Prof. Catherine Cornille and Prof. Jim Keenan, co-directors
Andrew T. Vink – Ellacuría's Tripartite Salvation: A Historical-Soteriological Response to The Crisis of Neoliberalism – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Nathan Wood-House – Toward an Anti-Racist Political Theology: Reading Johann Baptist Metz and James H. Cone against American Anti-Black Necropolitics – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Derek Brown – Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity – Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director
Aimee Hein – History and Responsibility: An Ecumenical Response to Migration in the United States – Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director
Benjamin Hohman – Grace and Emergence: Towards an Ecological and Evolutionary Foundation for Theology – Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director
Elyse Raby – Towards an Intercorporeal Body of Christ: A Study in Ecclesial Body Images – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Jonathan Bailes - Becoming Like God in Christ: Nicene Theology and Christian Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa – Prof. Khaled Anatolios, dissertation director
Kimberly Bauser McBrien - “…remembering what the Savior had said”: Social Memory and the Sayings of Jesus Tradition – Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director
Jinyong Choi - Analogy, Spirituality and the Beatific Enjoyment of God: Bonaventure and the Doctrine of Likeness – Prof. Emeritus Stephen Brown, dissertation director
Peter Folan, SJ - Matters of Interpretation: Biblical Methodology in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue on the Doctrine of Justification – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Hans Harmakaputra - The Community of Friends of God: Comparative Theology and the Construction of an Inclusive Theology of Saints – Prof. James Morris, dissertation director
Won-Jae Hur - Corporeality in Contemplation: A Comparative Study of Edith Stein and Tibetan Buddhist Lojong – Prof. John Makransky, dissertation director
Jaisy A. Joseph - Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective – Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director
Léocadie Lushombo, it. - Imagining an Ethics of Political Participation For Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sophialogical Hermeneutic – Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director
Andrew Massena - Torah for Its own Sake: The Decalogue in Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis – Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE - Cur Deus Cruciatus?: Lonergan’s Law of the Cross and the Transpositions of “Justice over Power” – Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director
Annie Selak - Toward an Ecclesial Vision in the Shadow of Wounds – Prof. Nancy Pineda Madrid, dissertation director
Marcel Uwineza, S.J. – Reconciling Memories: A Theology from a Place of Wounds: No Authentic Theology with my Back Turned to Nyamata – Prof Emerita M. Shawn Copeland, dissertation director
Daniel Vos – Some of the Other Works of the Torah: Boundaries and Inheritance as Legal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish Literature – Prof. David Vanderhooft, dissertation director
B. Kevin Brown, Gonazaga University, Senior Specialist for Faculty & Staff Mission Formation and Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies
Justin Shaun Coyle, Mount Angel Seminary, Associate Professor
Stephanie Edwards, Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium, Executive Director
Craig A. Ford, Jr., St. Norbert’s College, Assistant Professor
Michael Wahl, Providence College, Visiting Faculty
Jordan Daniel Wood, Incarnate Word Academy (St. Louis, MO), Theology Teacher
Robert J. Brodrick – Charismatic and Pastoral Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of the CDF Investigation of Leonardo Boff – Richard Gaillardetz
David Clint Burnett – Psalm 110:1 In Confessional Material In Corpus Paulinum: Cultural and Religious Context – Pheme Perkins
Ryan Duns – Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond’s Theological Achievement – Brian Robinette
Charles Thomas Fraatz – Blessed Is the One Who Reads and Those Who Hear the Words of Prophecy: Rome and Revelation’s Use of Scripture – Pheme Perkins
David Kwon – A Study of the Role of Jus Post Bellum in the 21st Century: Human Security and Political Reconciliation – Kenneth Himes, O.F.M.
Katherine Jackson-Meyer – Tragic Dilemmas and Virtue A Christian Feminist View – Lisa Cahill
Samuel Keyes – Here for Medicine, There for Delight: The Ecclesial Mysteries of the Victorine Speculum – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Joseph Mben – Empowering Disempowered Working Women: A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics – Lisa Sowle Cahill
Megan McCabe – Sex, Power, and Violence on the College Campus: Rape Culture and Complicity in Evil – James Keenan, SJ
Ty Monroe – The Development of Augustine's Early Soteriology – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Kate Mroz – No Salvation Apart from Religious Others: Edward Schillebeeckx's Soteriology as a Resource for Understanding Christian Identity and Discipleship in a Religiously Pluralist World – Mary Ann Hinsdale
Teva Regule – Identity, Formation, Transformation: The Liturgical Movement of the 20th Century and the Liturgical Reform Efforts of New Skete Monastery – John Baldovin, SJ
Jennifer Sanders – The Trinitarian Telos of the Summa theologiae: Thomas’s Application of the Aristotelian Ordo Disciplinae to Sacra Doctrina in light of his Augustinian Heritage – Dominic Doyle
Clifton Stringer – Becoming One in the Paschal Mystery: Christ, Spirituality, and Theology in Hugh of St. Victor – Boyd Taylor Coolman
Veronica Tierney – For Us and For Our Salvation: Revelation and Imitation in Cyril of Alexandria – Douglass Finn
Katherine Wrisley Shelby – The Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace – Stephen Brown
Michael Cagney – “The Problem of Big Food and the Response of an Integrated Catholic Ecological Ethic”
Timothy J. Carey – “Remove the Harm, Lord of Men, and Give Healing”: Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya”
Jessica Coblentz – “Depression’s Challenge to Theologies of Suffering and Salvation”
Nicholas P. DiSalvatore – “The Notion of Faith in the Early Latin Theology of Bernard Lonergan”
James Daryn Henry – “The Freedom of God: A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson”
Daniel P. Horan, OFM. – “Imagining Planetarity: Toward a Postcolonial Franciscan Theology of Creation”
Joel B. Kemp – “A Case for Identity: The Book of Ezekiel, Juridical Diction, and Judahite Identity”
Nathaniel N. L. Peters – “The Trinitarian Dimensions of Cistercian Eucharistic Theology”
John R. Barker, OFM – Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai
Stephanie Corigliano – Towards a Hermeneutic of Yoga in Modern Times: A Comparative Study of Practice and Detachment in Hinduism and Christianity
Maria Angela Socorro S. Cruz – Prophets Likewise: An Exploration of the Prophetic Office of the Laity as an Expression of the Sensus Fidelium
Marianne Tierney Fitzgerald – Theology and Activism in Latin America: A Reflection on Jon Sobrino’s Christology of the Resurrection and Grassroots Organizations Protesting Gender-Based Violence
Nichole Flores – Guadalupe in the Public Square: Religious Aesthetics and the Pursuit of Justice
Christopher D. Jones – “The Midday Demon': A Moral, Theological, and Biopsychosocial Analysis of Acedia”
Monica Jalandoni Nalupta – Filipino Fortitude
James O’Sullivan – Development as Human Rights: An Examination of Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Development
Cristina Richie – Moving Environmental Bioethics into the 21st Century: Green Bioethics and the Common Good
Kate Ward – Wealth, Poverty and Economic Inequality: A Christian Virtue Response
Stanislaus Subba Reddy Alla, “Care and Access: Catholic and Hindu Approaches to Ethics in Healthcare”
Anthony P. Coleman, “Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence”
Christopher R. Conway, “Liberative Service: A Comparative Theological Reflection on Dalit Theology's Service and Swami Vivekananda's Seva”
Jeremy V. Cruz, “Social Equality in Recent Catholic Social Thought: Toward an Ethic of Global Social Equality”
John P. Edwards, “Developing a ″Theology in the Order of Discovery″: The Method and Contribution of James Alison”
Conor M. Kelly, “Service And Justice, Peace and Solidarity: Theology And Ethics For Work And Leisure”
Nicole L. Reibe, “Preaching Participation: The Theology Of Achard Of St. Victor”
Robert J. Rivera, “A Christology of Liberation in an Age of Globalization and Exclusion: The Contributions of Jon Sobrino and Edward Schillebeeckx”
Andrew B. Salzmann, “The Holy Spirit And The Life Of The Christian According To Hugh Of St. Victor: Dator Et Donum, Cordis Omne Bonum”
Brian Traska, “Philosophy as Faith Seeking Understanding An Interpretation of Bernard Lonergan’s 1972 Lectures on Philosophy of God and Systematic Theology”
Jennifer S. Wade, “Resisting Violence through the Meditative Body: A Theological Anthropology of Transformational Anger in Judith Butler and The Revelations of Divine Love”
Glenn Willis, “Drive All Blames into One: Rhetorics of 'Self-Blame' and Refuge in Tibetan Buddhist Lojong, Nietzsche, and the Desert Fathers”
Thomas F. Burke, “Self –Emptying Love: Kenosis, Sacraments and the Church,” directed by Frederick Lawrence
Benjamin Durheim, “Christ’s Gift, Our Response: Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics,” directed by John Baldovin, S.J.
Katie Grimes, “Christ Divided: White Supremacy as a Corporate Vice in the Body of Christ,” directed by James Keenan, S.J.
Michael Jaycox, “Righteous Anger and Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Anger in Service to Justice,” directed by James Keenan, S.J.
Matthew Kruger, “The Freedom of the Mind for God: Reflexivity and Spiritual Exercises in Thomas Aquinas,” directed by Stephen Brown
Emma O’Donnell, “The Liturgical Transformation of Time: Memory and Eschatological Anticipation in Christian and Jewish Liturgy,” directed by John Baldovin, S.J.
Erik John Ranstrom, “The Unknown Body of Christ: Towards a Retrieval of the Early Panikkar’s Christology of Religions,” directed by Catherine Cornille
Katherine Richman, "Salvation in "Catholic Boston": Father Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center, 1941- 1949" directed by Thomas Wangler
Autumn Alcott Ridenour, “Union With Christ for the Aging: A consideration of Aging and Death in the Theology of St. Augustine and Karl Barth,” directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Raymond Ward, “Collectives in Christian Ethics: A Study of Reinhold Niebuhr and Jacques Maritain,” directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Kevin Ahern, "Structures of Grace: Catholic Nongovernmental Organizations and the Mission of the Church," directed by David Hollenbach
Hoa Trung Dinh, SJ, "Theological Medical Ethics: A Virtue-base Approach," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Walter Hannam, "The Ineutabile of Honorius Augustodunensis: A Study in the textures of early Twelfth-Century Augustinianisms," directed by Stephen Brown
Jill O'Brien, "Images of God, Roles of Humanity, and Ecological Ramifications: Hope and Realism in the Renewal of Creation," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Steve Okey, "The Plural and Ambiguous Self: The Theological Anthropology of David Tracy," directed by Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM
Jeremy Sabella, "The Politics of Original Sin: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and its Cold War Realist," directed by Michael Himes
Rene Sanchez, "Agapic Solidarity: Practicing the Love Command in a Globalized Reality," directed by Roberto Goizueta
James Arinello, "Simplified by the Highest Simplicity: Mystical Account According to Thomas Gallus," directed by Stephen Brown
Karen Bautista Enriquez, "Interrupting the Conversation on Kenosis and Sunyata: Buddhist and Christian Women in Search of the Relational Self," directed by John Makransky
Albertus Bagus Laksana, "Journeying to God in Communion with the Other: A Comparative Theological Study of the Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Traditions in South Central Java and their contributions to the Catholic Theology of Communio Sanctorum," directed by James Morris
Matthew Jon Sherman, "'Become what you receive.' A Transformative Eucharistic Vision of the Family, Engaging the History and Theology of U.S. Catholicism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill
John T. Slotemaker, "Pierre D'Ailly and the Development of the Late Medieval Trinitarian Theology: (with an edition ofQuaestiones Super Primum Sententiarum,QQ. 4-8, 10)," directed by Stephen Brown
Kevin Vander Schel, "Whose Kingdom Shall Have No End: Christ and History in Friedrich Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre and Christliche Sittenlehre," directed by Frederick Lawrence