People & Events
The heart of our PhD program is the people -- the faculty and students who come together to form a vibrant learning community. The pictures included on this site offer a small window into that community. If you wish to learn more, we encourage you to visit us. Please give us three to four weeks advance notice so that we can help you meet with faculty and students in your area of interest.
For Recent Events
Our successful dissertationists . . .
The following students have successfully defended their dissertations. We congratulate both the student and his or her advisor.
For 2008 defenses
From 2007
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran & Professor Jennifer Herdt
February 15, 2007
Revelations of Love and Operations of Grace: Jonathan Edwards' Human Virtues
Sam Thomas & Professor James VanderKam
March 27, 2007
The "Mysteries" of Qumran Community: The Raz-Concept in Second Temple Judaism and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Thomas Trinidad & Professor Nathan Mitchell
March 28, 2007
The Word of God in Ecclesial Rites and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Comparison of Karl Barth and Louis-Marie Chauvet
Heliodoro Lucatero & Professor Maxwell Johnson
April 10, 2007
The Practice of Baptism in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
David Pitt & Professor Maxwell Johnson
April 12, 200y
Revising the Rite of Adult Initiation: The Structural Reform of the Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, Ordo Catechumenatus Per Gradus Dispositus, 1964-1972
Rita George-Tvrtkovic & Professor Joseph Wawrykow
May 4, 2007
The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam
Natalia Imperatori-Lee & Professor Mary Catherine Hilkert
May 21, 2007
The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic Ecclesiology Since Vatican II
Daniel Machiela & Professor James VanderKam
June 7, 2007
The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q2O): A Reevaluation of its Text, Interpretive Character, and Relationship to the Book of Jubilees
John Perry & Professor Jennifer Herdt
June 25, 2007
Subverting the Republic: Christian Faithfulness and Civic Allegiance in John Locke's America
Raymond Aguas & Professors Mary Doak and Robert Krieg
June 26, 2007
Relating Faith and Political Action: Utopia in the Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez
Kindalee Delong & Professor Gregory Sterling
July 20, 2007
Kindy's dissertation title: Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts
Teresa Reeve & Professor Mary Rose D'Angelo
August 23, 2007
Luke 3:1-4:15 And the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation
Christopher Pramuk & Professor Lawrence Cunningham
October 11, 2007
Hagia Sophia: Imagination, Poetics and Presence in the Christology of Thomas Merton
Danielle Nussberger & Professors Lawrence Cunningham and Cyril O'Regan
November 13, 2007
Saint as Theological Wellspring: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Hermeneutic of the Saint in a Christological and Trinitarian Key
Kimberly Baker & Professor John Cavadini
December 13, 2007
Augustine on Action, Contemplation, and Their Meeting Point in Christ
From 2008:
Michael Heintz & Professors John Cavadini and Brian Daley
February 18, 2008
The Pedagogy of the Soul: Origen's Homilies on the Psalms
Walter Whitehouse and Professor Nathan Mitchell
March 14, 2008
Full, Conscious, and Active Participation: A Prelude
Michael Whitehouse and Professor Maxwell Johnson
March 31, 2008
Manus Impositio: The Initiatory Rite of
Handlaying in the Churches of Early Western Christianity
LaReine-Marie Mosely & Professor M. Catherine Hilkert
April 7, 2008
Salvation Despite the Death of Jesus? The Cross in the Later Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx: African American Christian Female Perspectives
Todd Hanneken & Professor James VanderKam
April 7, 2008
The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses
Kenneth Garcia & Professor Lawrence Cunningham
April 8, 2008
The Desire of the Mind for God and the Telos of the Catholic University
