Placements
2024
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Devilliers, Eric | “From the Shāhid to the Ghayb: The Vision of God in Late Antiquity, The Qur’ān, and Islamic Theology” | Gabriel Reynolds | University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc |
| Gasse, Grant | “Myth as False Word: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of Speech” | John Cavadini |
University of Notre Dame, McGrath Institute for Church Life
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| Gordon, Daniel | "Thomas Aquinas on Trinitarian Action: The Essential Unity and Personal Character of Divine Action in Creation and Salvation" | Joseph Wawrykow |
Ave Maria University, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Gummess, Matthew | "The Science of the Cross: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Theology of Desire" | Matthew Ashley | Visiting Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame |
| Hancock, Layne | "Saving Jonathan Edwards' Ethics from Voluntarism" | Gerald McKenny | Dynamic Counseling |
| Lambert, Matthew | “Licit Idols: The Roles of Divinized Furniture in the Hebrew Bible” | Gary Anderson | University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc |
| Orbih, William | "Resistance in African Literature: Towards a Decolonial Theology of Hope" | Emmanuel Katongole | |
| Sanchez, Jonathan | "The Disciplined and the Damned: Problematic Insiders and Countermeasures to Them in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of Matthew” | Nathan Eubank and John Fitzgerald | University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc |
| Shivachi, Edlaquine | "Teresa Kearney and the Little Sisters of St. Francis in East Africa: A Revolution of Tenderness" |
Emmanuel Katongole | |
| Torrance, Eugenia | "Heart of Flesh": Orthodoxy, Science, and the Soul-Body" | Matthew Ashley | |
| Troutner, Timothy | "The Eclipse of the Word: The Problem of Modern Apophaticism" | John Betz | Assumption University, Visiting Instructor |
2023
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Goo, Hansol | "Migrant God: Absence, Anamnesis and Migrant Sacramentality for Korean American Catholics" | Kimberly Belcher |
St. John's University, Assistant Professor
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| Freiherr Heereman, Vincenz | "All Humans Are Cast Into Battle:" Ephrem the Syrian's Theology of Spiritual Struggle and Ascetic Heroism | Gary Anderson and Jeffrey Wickes |
Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome)
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| Friesen, Carl | "Theological Foundations for a Christian Land Ethic" | Gerald McKenny | |
| Heth, Raleigh | "A Theology of the Younger Gods: Divine Succession in Near Eastern and Biblical Literature" | Abraham Winitzer |
Purdue University, Cornerstone Liberal Arts Program
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| Kildoo, Jacob | "The Qur'an's Epistemology: A Scriptural Approach to Human Knowledge" | Gabriel Reynolds |
University of Notre Dame, Nanovic Institute
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| Klassen, Marie Claire | "Spring of Living Waters: A Theological Ethnography of Palestinian Liberation Theology" | Todd Whitmore | |
| Lackowski, Mark | "The Blinded Hero: The Evolution of the Samson Stories" | Abraham Winitzer | |
| Messer, Matthew | "Capital Grace in the Thirteenth Century: Christ's Mediation of Grace in Aquinas and His Contemporaries" | Joseph Wawrykow |
Loyola University, Chicago, Adjunct Instructor
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| Neroth van Vogelpoel, Alex | "Known in the Baking of the Bread: The Preparation of the Eucharistic Gifts in the East Syriac Tradition" | Maxwell Johnson | |
| Ogle, Nicholas | "Ignorance in Action: A Thomistic Theory of Moral Culpability" | Jean Porter |
University of Pennsylvania, External Postdoc
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| Tran, Kim | "A Vietnamese Mary: Our Lady of La Vang in History and Theology" | John Cavadini | |
| Yuan, Wenxuan | “He Has Founded It Upon the Seas”: The Earth in Biblical Cosmology | Abraham Winitzer |
2022
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Agha, Toochukwu | Jeremiah, Prophetic Conflict, and the Catastrophe of 587/6 BCE | Gary Anderson |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Borello-Wise, Ryan | Agamben and the Kingdom: A Theological Introduction | Cyril O’Regan |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Boyd, Brian | A Just Wage: Equality, Proportionality, and Solidarity in the American Economy | Jean Porter and Kirk Doran |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Campbell, Warren | The Pauline Reception of Hebrews and the Memory of a Jewish Apostle | David Lincicum |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Chike, Julian | Mari and the Bible: A Link to the Past? The Case of Šōpēt and Šāpitum Reconsidered | Gary Anderson and Abraham Winitzer |
Baylor University, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
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| Fitriyah, Lailatul | Border Theologies: Divine Justice, and Religious Practices Among Indonesian Foreign Migrant Workers in Singapore | Gabriel Reynolds |
Claremont School of Theology, Assistant Professor of Interreligious Education
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| Haas, Kristi | The Theology of Louis Bouyer as Foundation for Catholic Ecological Theology | Cyril O’Regan |
University of Notre Dame, Associate Director of the MA Program and Assistant Teaching Professor in Theology
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| MacKay, Kathleen | Who Gets to Drink the Water in Lake Michigan? | Jean Porter | |
| Martin, Jay | Zizek &The Death of God: Hegel or Lacan | Cyril O’Regan |
University of Notre Dame, Assistant Teaching Professor
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| Mullaney, Casey | Incarnating Welcome: Formation, Risk, and Hospitality at St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker | Todd Whitmore |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| O’Donnell, Hugh | Mission & Communion: The Catholic Integration of Biblical Faith, Greek Inquiry, and World Cultures in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger | John Cavadini |
Christendom College, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Olokunboro, Fidelis | AfroCathonomics: Challenging the African Context of Poverty with Christian/Maritainian Personalism and the Theology of the Preferential Option for the Poor | Peter Casarella and Paulinus Odozor |
Cabrini University, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy
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| Pierce, Alexander | Augustine’s Theology of the Sacramental Economy of Salvation | John Cavadini |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Shields, Jon Kara | Listen to the Word that God Has Spoken: The Study of Christian Communities in Christian Ethics | Todd Whitmore and David Clarimont |
Simpson College, Instructor of Religion
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| Slaubaugh, Samantha | Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne’s Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary | Margot Fassler |
University of Notre Dame, 5+1 Postdoc
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| Strand, Vincent | That They May Have Life: Trinitarian Deification in Matthias Joseph Scheeben | Khaled Anatolios, John Betz |
The Catholic University of America, Assistant Professor School of Theology and Religious Studies
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| Vale, Matthew | Christian Vijñānavāda: Yogācāra, Nondual Cognition, and Christian Theology | Cyril O’Regan |
Boston College, Visiting Assistant Professor
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| Verner, Dominic | Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor | Jean Porter |
Providence College, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Wheatley, Paul | Mark, the Mystagogue: Ritual Narrative, Identity Formation, and Baptism in the Gospel according to Mark | David Lincicum and Robin Jensen |
Nashotah House, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek
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2021
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Anderson, Kirsten | "Evil and Freedom in Gregory of Nyssa" | Khaled Anatolios |
College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska, Visiting Assistant Professor Theology
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| Buisch, Pauline | The Woman Facing the Threat of Childlessness: The Literary and Theological Development of a Biblical Motif | Gary Anderson |
United Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor
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| De Los Reyes, Liam | By nature common: foundations for a natural law theory of the convention of property | Jean Porter |
Mount Angel Seminary, Associate Professor of Moral Theology
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| Dever, Colum | The God of Israel: A Theological Reading of Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem | John Cavadini | Creighton University, Assistant Professor |
| Iffland, Craig | Following and Not-Following the Divine Law: Aquinas on Law, Morality, and Obligation | Jean Porter |
University of Notre Dame, Teaching Scholar- Mendoza College of Business
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| Johnson, Samuel | “A sign for this generation”: the life of Jesus in Origen’s gospel commentaries | John Cavadini |
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
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| Johnson, Sarah | Occasional Religious Practice: An Ethnographic Theology of Christian Worship in a Changing Religious Landscape | Kimberly Belcher |
Saint Paul University, Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Pastoral Theology
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| Lacy, Travis | The Catholicity of the church: an Augustinian account | Cyril O’Regan |
Mount Mercy University, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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| Lindblom, John | A “Chinese tunic for Christ”: John C. H. Wu’s incorporation of the Chinese classics in translating the Psalms and New Testament | Robert Gimello and John Cavadini | |
| Maxey, Amy | Erotic entanglements with the Christian mystical tradition: a heuristic notion of mysticism for feminist theology from Bernard McGinn, Sarah Coakley, and Catherine Keller | M. Catherine Hilkert |
Oblate School of Theology, Assistant Professor of Spirituality
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| Mooney, Christopher | Iustitia fidei: the development of Augustine’s account of justification by faith | John Cavadini |
Augustine Institute, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Nutter, Taylor | A self forgetful of itself: Augustine and the modern oblivion of the erotic mind | Cyril O’Regan | |
| Palacios, Kristin | The Non-P Jacob Story (Genesis 25-36) in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Its Composition and Its Theological Meaning | Gary Anderson and Knoppers |
Western Theological Seminary, Adjunct Instructor
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| Reisenauer, Augustine | Augustine on the Resurrection | John Cavadini | Providence College, Assistant Professor |
| Rios, Christopher | Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Mikel Dufrenne at the limits of theological phenomenological cosmology: a constructive proposal | Cyril O’Regan |
Rutgers University Press, Assistant Editor- Religious and Jewish Studies
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| Roumas, Sarah | Infernal bodies: Lazarus Saturday in the development of the Triodion | Maxwell Johnson | |
| Seah, Audrey | Signs of Hope: Narratives, Eschatology and Liturgical Inculturation in Deaf Catholic Worship | Kimberly Belcher |
Loyola University Maryland, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
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| Steiner, Laura | Feile agus Bealoideas: The Interconnection of Religious Folk Narrative and Popular Practice on Feast Days in the Irish Sanctoral Cycle | Kimberly Belcher | |
| Sunshine, Elizabeth | Intercession and reconciliation: a canonical reading of Exodus 32-34 | Gary Anderson |
Carson-Newman University, Assistant Professor in Religion
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| Thomas, Sam | Hindu Nationalism and Indian Christianity: Perceptions, Approaches and Prescriptions | Bradley Malkovsky | |
| Yankoski, Michael | Building Peace in the Anthropocene: The Practical Wisdom of Hospitality Amidst Climate Violence |
Todd Whitmore and Celia Deane-Drummond
|
2020
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Angel, Christopher | Ritual and Identity at the California Missions |
Kimberly Belcher and Maxwell Johnson
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| Akesseh, Ebenezer | Relevance of the virtue of justice to contemporary discussions of corruption | Jean Porter |
Christ the King Catholic Church, Accra, Parish Priest
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| Belton, Dylan | The Sojourning Animal: An Anthropology of Detachment and Attunement | Cyril O’Regan |
Villanova, Mendel Postdoctoral Fellow
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| Chase, Nathan | Rethinking Anaphoral Development in Light of the Barcelona Papyrus | Maxwell Johnson |
Aquinas Institute of Theology, Assistant Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology
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| Coogan, Jeremiah | Eusebius The Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity | David Lincicum and Blake Leyerle |
Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
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| Cortes-Rodriguez, Rocio | Diálogo interreligioso en Latinoamérica y Razonamiento de la Escritura : perspectivas teóricas y modelos para el diálogo | Peter Casarella |
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Theology
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| Cross, Colleen | “Unlocking Human Dignity”: A Theology of Liberation From the Context of U.S. Immigrant Detention and Deportation | M. Catherine Hilkert and Daniel Groody, CSC |
St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Assistant Professor
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| DeLaNoval, Roberto | Sophiology in suspension: the theological condemnations of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov | Cyril O’Regan |
Mount St. Mary’s University; Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology
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| Dolan, Julieanne | Being Laden with Love: A Theological Development of Jacques Maritain’s Creative Intuition |
Cyril O’Regan and Francesca Murphy
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| Edewaard, Ashley | Food as medicine of body and soul: Clement of Alexandria’s dietary prescriptions in the Paedagogus | Blake Leyerle | |
| Edwards, Robert | Divine Providence and Biblical Narrative in the Thought of John Chrysostom | Blake Leyerle |
University of Gottingen, Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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| Haring, James | God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant | Gerald McKenny | |
| Idoko, Patricia | Christian-Muslim representation in religious education textbooks: implications for religious integration in Nigeria | Gabriel Reynolds and Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp. |
DeSales University, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| King, Chelsea | Hermeneutics of Sacrifice: Wrestling with the Death of Christ in a Feminist and Ecological World | M. Catherine Hilkert |
Sacred Heart University, Assistant Professor in Catholic Studies
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| Lim, Joshua | Vidimus eum plenum gratiae et veritatis: Thomas Aquinas on the co-assumed perfections: Christ’s grace and knowledge | Joseph Wawrykow | Thomas Aquinas College |
| Lyimo, David | The quest for Christ in Africa: reimagining and reconstructing African Christology | Paul Kollman, CSC |
Tangaza University College, Nairobi, Kenya
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| Lynch, Brendan | The Reception of the Summa Theologiae on the Question of Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period | Joseph Wawrykow |
Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C., Instructor in Systematic Theology and Historical Theology
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| O’Halloran, Nathan | Soteriology In a Future Register: Expanding the Doctrine of Purgatory as a Process of Healing and Transformation for Victims | Cyril O’Regan and M. Catherine Hilkert |
Loyola University-New Orleans, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Program Director of Catholic Studies
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| Saxby, Justin | The sublime unselfing of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s sermons |
Cyril O’Regan and Dassow Walls
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| Shah, Bruno | Disciplining theology: critically retrieving Xavier Zubiri’s fundamental theology of experience | Cyril O’Regan | Providence College |
| Stefano, Troy | Trinity and History in Franz Anton Staudenmaier | Cyril O’Regan |
St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Assistant Professor
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Previous Placements
ABD
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Schreiber, Sarah | The Use of Scripture in the Prologue and Jubilees 1 | James VanderKam |
Calvin Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor
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2019
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Altenburger, Michael | Hans Urs von Balthasar : apocalyptic, politics, and the church | Cyril O’Regan | |
| Blume, Margaret | Spe salvi facti sumus (Rom. 8:24) : Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of theological hope and Its role in the human being’s journey to God | Joseph Wawrykow |
St. Thomas More Academy
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| Cruess, Gregory | Augustine’s biblical christology : a study of the In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV | John Cavadini |
University of Dallas
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| Fitchette Climenhaga, Alison | Reconciling Charisma: Healing, Conflict, and Identity in Catholic Renewalist Movements in Western Uganda | Paul Kollman |
Australian Catholic University, Research Fellow
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| Hahn, Michael | Augustine in the Teaching of Thomas: Aquinas’s Reception and Use of Contra Faustum Manichaeum | Joseph Wawrykow |
Mount St. Mary’s University, Assistant Professor
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| Hefelfinger, Scott | Common goods and the laws of nations | Jean Porter |
Augustine Institute, Associate Professor of Theology
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| Hemphill, Hannah | Sacrifice in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas | Joseph Wawrykow |
Carroll College, Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies
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| Magas, Kevin | Integrating liturgy and life through mystery : re-sourcing a theme in twentieth century sacramental-liturgical theology | David Fagerberg |
University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Assistant professor in the Department of Dogmatic Theology
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| Magree, Michael | “Shaped to the measure of the kenosis” : the theological Interpretation of Philippians 2:7 from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria | Khaled Anatolios |
Boston College, Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology
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| Marvin, Michelle | Remembering in Relation: Edward Schillebeeckx’s Theological Anthropology and the Neuroscience of Memory Loss | J. Matthew Ashley, Deane Drummond |
University of Notre Dame, Inspired Leadership Institute Faculty
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| Massinelli, Georges | For your sake He became poor : ideology and practice of gift exchange between early Christian groups | John Fitzgerald |
Istituto Teologico di Assisi, Biblical Studies Department Faculty
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| McManaway, Joshua | Nestorius Latinus: The Latin Reception and Critique of Nestorius of Constantinople | John Cavadini |
University of Notre Dame, McGrath Institute
|
| Mesick, Clair | Paul and the “interlopers”: apostleship and antagonism in the Corinthian correspondence | John Fitzgerald |
Calvin University, Assistant Professor
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| O’Connor, Andrew | The prophetic vocation in the Qurʼan : kerygmatic and theonomic visions of prophetology | Gabriel Reynolds |
St. Norbert College, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies
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| Riordan, Joseph | Isaiah unbound : the transfiguration of Zion in Tobit 13-14 | Gary Anderson |
Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Faculty
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| Roosien, Mark | The liturgical commemoration of earthquakes in late antique Constantinople : at the intersection of ritual, environment, and empire | Maxwell Johnson, Blake Leyerle |
Yale University, Admissions Coordinator, Lecturer in Liturgical Studies
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| Sikorski, John | Bearing death bravely and undertaking it in charity : redemptive suffering and the Ars moriendi | Jean Porter |
University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business Assistant Teaching Professor
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| Stockson, Gilbert | Charity, reward, and “mercenary” intent in Thomas Aquinas and Gabriel Biel | Joseph Wawrykow |
Loyola School New York; Director of Campus Ministry and Theology Instructor
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| Strong, Justin | The fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke : their form, origins, and implications | John Fitzgerald | |
| Syfox, Chontel | Rewriting and (re)negotiating gender : a study of the depictions of the matriarchs in the Book of Jubilees in relation to depictions of heroines in the Greek novel and Jewish novella | James VanderKam |
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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| Takawi, Mourad | The interreligious context of Qur’ān interpretation : early Arabic Christian and Muslim exegesis of the Qur’ān, 8th-10th centuries CE | Gabriel Reynolds |
University of the Incarnate Word, Assistant Professor
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| Therrien, Mark | Origen’s theology in the context of Valentinian gnosticism : a comparative essay | John Cavadini |
University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Assistant Profesor in the Department of Dogmatic Theology
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| Wadler, Shlomo | Genesis and Halakhah : an analysis of the relationship between Genesis and law in the Second Temple period | Gary Anderson, James VanderKam |
University of Notre Dame, ISSA Faculty
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| Wiegel, Rebecca | Reading Matrona: the sixth-century life of a trans saint | Blake Leyerle |
2018
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Alonyenu, Matthias | Salvation in Jesus coming from God: Edward Schillebeeckx’s Jesus-Project in the context of pluralistic Africa | M. Catherine Hilkert | |
| Aspesi, Cara | The Breviary of Lucca, Biblioteca Arcivescovile, Ms5: The Use of the Cathedral of Tyre | Margot Fassler |
Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame
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| Ciraulo, Jonathan | The Eucharistic Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar | Cyril O’Regan |
Saint Meinrad Seminary & School of Theology, Assistant Professor
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| Clem, Stewart | Truth as a virtue: a Thomistic framework for the ethics of lying and truthtelling | Jean Porter |
Aquinas Institute of Theology, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology
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| Dango, Rufino Enno | Rationalist Hermeneutics: A Study of Muhammad Asad’s Translation and Commentary of the Qurʾān | Gabriel Reynolds |
Catholic Theological Union, Teaching Fellow
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| DuBois, Heather | To Be More Fully Alive: John of the Cross and Judith Butler on Transformation of the Self | J. Matthew Ashley |
Florida State University, Gannon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
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| Guardado, Leo | Church as Sanctuary: A preferential option for the displaced and persecuted poor | M. Catherine Hilkert, Timothy Matovina |
Fordham University, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Haw, Chris | René Girard and Monotheism: The Refusal to Divinize Victims and the Mosaic Distinction | M. Catherine Hilkert, Cyril O’Regan |
University de Scranton, Assistant Professor of Theology
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| Kincaid, Elisabeth | “In a Prudent Way and Without Rashness”: Reclaiming Francisco Suarez’s Theories of Legal Engagement | Jean Porter |
Aquinas Institute of Theology, Assistant Professor
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| Ladd, Meleah | Liturgical Spirituality in the Kitchen: Glimpsing Domestic Churches Through Books with Recipes for Food | Michael Driscoll | |
| Lee, Yongho (Francis) | Bonaventure and Chinul: Christian and Buddhist Models for Integration of the Intellectual and Spiritual Life | Robert Gimello |
Franciscans School of Theology, Visiting Professor
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| Nkwocha, Levi | Muslim-Christian Dialogue of Life Via Hospitality: A Theology of Abraham Asymmetric-Mutual Substitutive Responsibility Applied in an African Context | Bradley Malkovsky |
University of Notre Dame, Postdoctoral Fellow
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| Noble, Joshua | Common Property, The Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35 | John Fitzgerald |
Thomas Aquinas College, Assistant Professor
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| Petrin, Anna | The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian Elements in the Liturgy of Jerusalem | Maxwell Johnson |
Wesley Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor and Chapel Elder
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| Rubbelke, Michael | “A constant closeness to this God”: reconsidering Karl Rahner’s mystical theology | Cyril O’Regan |
Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Monastic Studies
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| Woodington, James | Disbelieving disciples: doubt in the post-resurrection scenes of the four Gospels | John Fitzgerald |
University of Kansas, Admissions and Lecturer in Religious Studies
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2017
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Buol, Justin | Bishop Martyrs: Authority and Suffering in the Second Century CE | Candida Moss | Bethel College, Adjunct Professor |
| Clemmons, Thomas | The Development of Augustine’s Christology in the Early Antimanichaean Works | John Cavadini | Catholic University of America, Assistant Professor |
| Cuddeback, Lorraine | Liberation, Resistance, and Agency in Intellectual Disability: An Ethnographic Study for Christian Ethics | Todd Whitmore | Mount St. Mary’s University, Assistant Professor |
| Drahos, Kristen | Dark Beauty: Toward a Catholic Theological Aesthetics | Cyril O’Regan | Carthage College, Postdoctoral Fellow (3 years) |
| Elliot, Katherine | Personal Transformation in the Theology of Liberating Vulnerability | Robert Krieg | Saint Mary’s College, Adjunct Professor |
| Geist, Andrew | “He will repay him with good”: The Relationship Between Wealth and Piety in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel | Gary Anderson | Notre Dame Seminary (LA), Assistant Professor |
| Gerdon, Ian | Love in the Evagrian Tradition to Maximus the Confessor | Brian Daley | University of Notre Dame, Adjunct Professor |
| Hunter-Bowman, Janna | Agency Under Duress: A Political Theological Approach to Peacebuilding | Todd Whitmore, Gerald McKenny | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Assistant Professor of Peace Studies and Christian Social Ethics |
| Kaltenbach, Jonathan | Christ the Priest in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas | Joseph Wawrykow | Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Director of Catechesis |
| Lambelet, Kyle | ¡Presente! Political Theology at the Gates of Ft. Benning | Gerald McKenny | Emory University, Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow, Candler School of Theology |
| Lee, Brian Yong | “Members of Christ” Reevaluating the Significance of Stoic Language and the Unity of Paul’s Argument in 1 Corinthians | John Fitzgerald and Gregory Sterling | Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology, Assistant Professor |
| Mahon, Kate | “Teach us to pray”: The Lord’s Prayer in the Sixteenth-Century Re-Ritualizations of Christian Formation | Maxwell Johnson | University of Notre Dame, First Year Studies |
| Ondrako, Edward | “Rebuild my Church”: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Appropriation and Development of the Ecclesiology and Mariology of Vatican II | Cyril O’Regan | University of Notre Dame, Visiting Scholar at the McGrath Institute for Church Life |
| Petrin, Michael | Saved by the God Above Every Name: Salvation in the Theology of Gregory of Nyssa | Brian Daley | |
| Pidel, Aaron | The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara, S.J. | John Betz | Marquette University, Assistant Professor |
| Vela, Horacio | The Inner Human Being: The Transformation of a Platonic Metaphor in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity | John Fitzgerald and Gregory Sterling | University of Incarnate Word, Assistant Professor |
2016
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Anibueze, Mary | Eucharistic Communion and Rituals of Communion in Igbo Culture: An Integrative Study of Liturgy, Faith, and Culture | David Fagerberg | Berea College, Lecturer |
| DeJong, David | A Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy and Canon in Early Judaism and Christianity | James VanderKam | St. Louis University, Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Gaetano, Stephen | Fides Quae Per Charitatem Operatur: A Study and Translation of Domingo De Soto’s De Natura Et Gratia | Joseph Wawrykow | Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, Teacher |
| Gardner, Patrick | It is Modern Pentecost: Henri de Lubac on Atheism and the Spiritual Posterity of Joachim of Fiore | Cyril O’Regan | Christopher Newport University, Assistant Professor |
| Ghormley, Justus | Inspired Scribes: The Formation of the Book of Jeremiah and the Vocation of Ancient Jewish Scribal Scholars | James VanderKam and Eugene Ulrich | Valparaiso University, Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Giambrone, Anthony, O.P. | “The one who did mercy”: Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke’s Gospel | Gary Anderson | Dominican House of Studies (DC), Assistant Professor |
| Khalil, Joseph | What has Ur of the Chaldeans to do with Sinai? The Abrahamic and Sinaitic Covenants in Second Temple Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts | James VanderKam | |
| Klein, Elizabeth | Augustine on Angels | John Cavadini | Augustine Institute, Assistant Professor |
| Kuiper, Matthew | Indian Muslims, Other Religions and the Modern Resurgence of Da‘wa: The Tablīghī Jamā‘at and Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation | Gabriel Reynolds | Missouri State University, Assistant Professor |
| Longanga, Emery | Interpreting a Christian Classic in an African Context: Pluralism and Inculturation in Light of David Tracy and Leonard Santedi | David Clairmont and John Cavadini | St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Parochial Vicar |
| McCarthy, Sheila | Healing the Body of Christ: Liturgy, Trauma, and the Works of Mercy | Ann Astell and Nathan Mitchell | Holy Cross College, Adjunct Instructor |
| Murphy, Austin | The Bible as Inspired, Authoritative, and True According to Saint Augustine | John Cavadini and Brian Daley | St. Procopius Abbey, Abbot |
| Pagliarini, Anthony | A Memory of Future Israel: Ezekiel 40-48 and the Potential for Warranted Reception | Gary Anderson | University of Notre Dame, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies |
| Trotter, Jonathan | The Jerusalem Temple in the Thought and Practice of Diaspora Jews During the Second Temple Period | James VanderKam | Lewis University, Adjunct Instructor |
| Vera, Luis | Tablets of Flesh: Memory, Media, and the Perfection of the Image in Digital Societies | Jean Porter | Mount St. Mary’s University, Assistant Professor |
2015
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Abdelsayed, John Paul | Our Great Archpriest: St. Cyril of Alexandria’s Approach to the Priesthood of Christ | Brian Daley | Coptic Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii, Auxiliary Bishop |
| Abril, Michael Anthony | The Beginning of the End: Original Sin and Apocalypse in View of Karl Rahner and Rene Girard | Cyril O’Regan | Aquinas Institute of Theology, Assistant Professor |
| Antus, Elizabeth | The Doors of the Soul: A Critical Augustinian Account of Self-Love | M. Catherine Hilkert | Boston College, Assistant Professor |
| Carmona, Victor | Neither Slave nor Free: A Critique of U.S. Immigration Policy in Light of the Work of David Hollenbach, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Thomas Aquinas | Todd Whitmore | University of San Diego, Assistant Professor |
| Carpenter, Angela | Sanctified Children: Natural Moral Formation and Sanctification in Reformed Theology | Gerald McKenny | Hope College, Assistant Professor |
| Castillo, Daniel | Foundations for an Ecological Theology of Liberation: Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Concept of Integral Liberation, Political Ecology, and Salvation | Matthew Ashley | Loyola Maryland University, Assistant Professor |
| Dunkel, Brian, S.J. | Nocturna Lux Viantibus: The Methods, Meaning, and Mystagogy of Ambrosian Hymnody | Brian Daley | Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Assistant Professor |
| Francis, Michael | Borderline Bad: Philo of Alexandria on the Distinction Between Voluntary and Involuntary Sin | Gary Anderson and Gregory Sterling | John Brown University, Assistant Professor |
| Hamilton, Brian | Pauperes Christi: Voluntary Poverty as Political Practice | Jean Porter | Florida Southern College, Assistant Professor |
| Komline, Han-luen | From Division to Delight: Augustine and the Will | Brian Daley | Western Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor |
| Lee, Joungeun (June) | Aquinas’s Anger and the Han-full Anger: Thomistic Virtuous Anger with the Case of the Han-full Anger in South Korean Context | Maura Ryan | |
| McCabe, Kevin | Capacities and Capax Dei: Theological Anthropology and Intellectual Disability | Cyril O’Regan | Seton Hall University, Teaching Fellow |
| Morgan, Jeffrey | Singular Self-Awareness with the Searcher of Hearts: Conscience in the Thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Bart | Gerald McKenny | Villanova University, Multi-Year Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Peterson, Brandon | “Being salvation”: A Reinterpretation of Rahner’s Christ as Savior | Robert Krieg | University of Utah, Lecturer |
| Raczka, Gary Philip | The Lectionary at the Time of Saint John Chrysostom | Maxwell Johnson | The Diocese of Newton for the Melkite Catholics in the USA, Cathedral Rector |
| Rambau, Fr. Leonce F., CSSp | Paul and his Co-Workers: Equality in Pauline Letters | David Aune | Jordan University College (Morogoro, Tanzania), A Constituent College of Saint Augustine University of Tanzania, Lecturer in Sacred Scriptures |
| Sehorn, John | Origen of Alexandria’s Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel: Translation and Commentary | John Cavadini | The Augustine Institute, Assistant Professor |
| Wales, Jordan | Sacrifice in the Theology of Gregory the Great | John Cavadini | Hillsdale College, Assistant Professor |
2014
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Battin, Steven | Intercommunal Ecclesiology: Re-Envisioning the Church as God’s Response to Intergroup Disunity | Cyril O’Regan | University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor |
| Boesenberg, Dulcinea | Moses in Luke-Acts | Mary Rose D’Angelo | Creighton University, Assistant Professor |
| Bruning, Brandon | The Making of the Mishkan: The Old Greek Text of Exodus 35-40 and the Literary History of the Pentateuch | Eugene Ulrich | |
| DeLorenzo, Leonard | Those Who Hear Will Live: A Theological Explication of the Communion of Saints | Cyril O’Regan | University of Notre Dame, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Academic Director for ND Vision |
| Downing, Andrew | The Problem and Promise of History in Theology | Cyril O’Regan | Pontifical Gregorian University, Lecturer |
| Dru, Josephine | In Light and Shadow of Multiple Wholes: How Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon Read Joel Among the Twelve as Scripture | Gary Anderson | Museum of the Bible, Curator |
| Elliott, David | Rethinking Happiness: The Role of Hope in Virtue Ethics | Jean Porter | Catholic University of America, Assistant Professor |
| Emerson Hernandez, Marco | The Seeds of Creation and New Creation: St. Thomas Aquinas and his Predecessors on the Generative Principles of Natural and Supernatural Life | Joseph Wawrykow | Thomas Aquinas College, Assistant Professor |
| Enemali, Mark | The Danger of Transgression Against Divine Presence: The Case of the Ark Narrative (1 Samuel 4:1B-7:1; 2 Samuel 6) | Gary Anderson | Spiritan International School of Theology, Assistant Professor |
| Feder, Julia | A Mystical-Political Theology of Posttraumatic Healing: Teresa of Avila, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Contemporary Trauma Theory | M. Catherine Hilkert | Creighton University, Assistant Professor |
| Griffin, Michael | The Politics of Penance: Proposing an Ethic for Social Repair | Todd Whitmore | Holy Cross College, Senior Vice President and Professor |
| McGraw, Damon | Apocalyptic Thought in John Henry Newman: Discerning Antichrist in Modernity | Cyril O’Regan | The Academy of the Holy Cross, IB, and Theology Instructor |
| Mukasa Makonga, Edoth | “Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments” (Ps 118:34.73.144). The Grace of the Law: A Study of Augustine’s Enarratio in Psalmum 118 | Brian Daley | Middlebury Language School, VT, German School Coordinator |
| Scherz, Paul | Technology and Subjectivity in the Thought of Alasdair Macintyre and Michel Foucault | Gerald McKenny | Catholic University of America, Assistant Professor |
| Wang, Zueying | Gregory of Nyssa on the Corporate Nature of the Human Body | Brian Daley | Loyola University of Chicago, Instructor |
2013
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Placement |
| Cho, Jaechon | Philoromaios-Herod Agrippa II in Josephus and the Acts of Apostles | Gregory Sterling | Torch Trinity Graduate University, Assistant Professor |
| Cover, Michael | Lifting the Veil: 2 Cor 3:7-4:6 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions | Gregory Sterling | Marquette University, Assistant Professor |
| Haley, Kevin | The Reinterpretation of the Psalms of the Individual in Judaism and Christianity | Gary Anderson | |
| Hirschfeld, Mary | Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: A Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economic | Jean Porter | Villanova University, Assistant Professor |
| Hoden, Mary | A Visible Manifestation of the Invisible: The Relationship of the Architecture of Salisbury Cathedral and the Liturgy of the Sarum Use | Michael Driscoll | University of St. Thomas, Senior Adjunct Professor |
| Horsting, Albertus | S.Prosperi Ex Sententiis S. Augustini Epigrammatum Liber Unus. A Study of Prosper of Aquitaine’s Poetical Synthesis of Augustinian Theology Accompanied by a New Edition, Translation, and Commentary of the Liber Epigrammatum | John Cavadini and Hildegund Muller | |
| Kneip, David | The Spirit, the Bible, and the Church: Neglected Aspects of Cyril of Alexandria’s Pneumatology | Brian Daley | Abilene Christian University, Instructor |
| Marx, Nathaniel | Via Sacra: The Latin Mass and Personal Formation | Nathan Mitchell | Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, Assistant Professor |
| Mata, Monica Sara | Myth and Mystery: Augustine’s First Commentary on Genesis 1-2:3 | John Cavadini | |
| Prevot, Andrew | Thinking Prayer: Meditations on Theology, Doxology, and Praxis | Cyril O’Regan | Boston College, Assistant Professor |
| Wickes, Jeffrey | Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem’s Hymns of Faith | Joseph Amar | St. Louis University, Assistant Professor |