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Andrew Ashenden

Interests: Medieval/Ancient philosophy, Augustine, Philosophy of Martin Luther, Reformation Christological Debates, Semantics; 

Other interests: running, lifting, cryptocurrency

Education:
B.A. Concordia University, Philosophy
M.A. Biola University, Christian Apologetics  

Eugene Basonota

Interests:

Education:

Jonmarc Bennett

He/Him/His

Interests: Japanese Marxism, Tosaka Jun, Karatani Kojin, Tabata Minoru 

Education:
B.A. from California Baptist University
M.A. Loyola Marymount University 

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:15-1:45 in the Law Library Cafe

Karolyn Burns

They/them/theirs/Mx.

Interests: Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Disability Studies 

Education:
B.A. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Philosophy
Certificate as Pharmacy Technician, Central Piedmont Community College; Certificate as a Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Technician Certification Board

Facts: PIKSI Alum and MAP Representative

Marc Choufany

Interests: Post-Kantian German Idealism and Materialism, Marx's Critique of Political Economy, Critical Theory, and the Marxian Concepts of Ideology and Practice

Education:
B.S. in Mathematics at the Lebanese University
B.A. in Philosophy at the Lebanese University
M.A. in Philosophy at the American University of Beirut

Office hours:
Marquette Hall 430, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:25 to 4:55 PM

Alex Dong

She/Her/Hers

Interests: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Theories of Perception, race as a philosophical subject in the context of Asian Experience, Aristotle, ancient Chinese philosophy.

Education:
B.A. University of Oregon
M.A. University of Oregon

Melady Elifritz

She/her or They/them

Interests:  Social/Political Philosophy, Pregnancy and Birth, Reproductive Labor, Marxism, Black and Decolonial Feminisms, Queer Theory

Education:
B.A. University of Wisconsin – Madison, Philosophy and Gender & Women’s Studies

Elizabeth Flamm

She/her/hers

Interests: Interested in the intersection of social questions of responsibility and political ethics, with individual responsibilities, concepts of subjectivity, and epistemic virtues, especially when considered alongside questions and ideas of moral psychology.

Education: B.A. University of Maryland, College Park Political Science, M.A. ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒ, Social and Applied Philosophy

Other: Alumni of the Marquette Trinity Fellowship Program (2017)

Matthew Friesner

He/him

Interests:  Philosophy of Religion, Ethics.

Education:
B.A. Creighton University, Psychology
M.A. University of Bonn, Theology and Ecumenical Studies

Amy Gardner

She/They

Interests: Queer and feminist phenomenology, especially intersections with online spaces like video games, Chinese philosophy

Education:
M.A. in Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University, 
B.A., Arcadia University, Philosophy

Office Hours: 3:45-4:45 on Tuesdays, 12-1 on Wednesdays and by appointment

Rob Gilbert

He/Him/His

Domains of Interest: Philosophy of Experience (Phenomenological, Analytical, and Process-Metaphysical approaches); Transcendental Epistemology; Existentialism; German Idealism; Metaphysics

Themes of Interest: Immanence and Transcendence; Determinability and Conditions of Determinacy and Intelligibility; Determinable Matter and Determinative Form; the Isolability of Conditions; the Abstract/Concrete Distinction; the Constitution of Experience and Knowledge; Intentionality and Givenness; the Epistemic Effect of Relevance, Interests, and Authenticity; most adventurously, what I take to be a widely pervasive duality extending beyond grammar into phenomenology, metaphysics, teleology, semiotics, metaphor theory, and even ethics and theology between Constitutive Transitivity and Constituted Intransitivity

Education: 
M.A. in Philosophy, Marquette ('26)
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Minnesota ('23) 

Office Hours:
Wednesdays from 1:30 - 4:30 in room 008X
on the bottom floor of Marquette Hall

Trevor Gullion 

Interests: Pragmatism, Marx/Engels, Philosophy of Science, solidarity, political economy, democracy, the State.

Education:
B.A. San Jose State University, Philosophy
M.A. San Jose State University, Philosophy

Office Hours:
Mondays from 2pm to 3pm via Zoom

Rev. Nicholas Hartman, O.P.

Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology

Education: 
B.A. Indiana University Bloomington, Philosophy
M.Div., S.T.B., S.T.L., Dominican House of Studies

Office Hours:
Wednesday, 1–3pm in Marquette Hall 426

Lane Hepburn

Interests: Ecocriticism, History of Philosophy (Western and Non-Western), Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Masculinity, and Virtue Ethics

Education:
M.A. Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
M.A. Ethics and Applied Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.A. Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Ian Hosbach

They/Them

Interests: 20th Century Continental, Social and Political, Post-structuralism, Phenomenology, Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Marxism.

Education:
B.A. in Philosophy from Appalachian State University
B.S. in Anthropology from Appalachian State University
M.A. in Ethics and Applied Philosophy and Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Office Hours: 
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 to 3:00pm
Marquette Hall 415

Alexandra Kilgore

Interests: metaethics, normative ethics, bioethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of disability 

Education: 
B.A. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America 
Master of Education, University of Notre Dame
Master of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University 

Office Hours:
MH 443 by appointment

Sterling Knox

Interests: Agency, Responsibility, Decolonial, Philosophy of Culture. Currently working for MISKWAAGAMIIWI – ZAAGAIGANING (Red lake Nation) for Ombimindwaa Gidinawemaaganinaadog as Recidivism Reduction Coordinator in partnership with the BIA’s DIVISION OF DIVERSION AND RE-ENTRY.

Education:
Bemidji State University

Nicholas Korchowsky

Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Subjectivity/Personhood, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics.

Education:
B.A. Eastern University near Philadelphia, Philosophy
M.A. ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒ, Philosophy

Office Hours:
Wednesday from 10:30 to 1pm
Marquette Hall, Rm 447

Seth Kreeger

He/him/his

Interests: Medieval philosophy, Aquinas, Neoplatonism, pseudo-Dionysius, Arabic Philosophy, Avicenna.

Education:
Associate, Grand Rapids Community College
B.A. Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI
M.A. the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA. 

Emily Lange

She/her/hers

Interests: Social and Critical Epistemology, Philosophy and Literature, Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Studies, Disability Theory, Philosophy Pedagogy.

Education:
B.A., Elon University
M.A., Miami University of Ohio

Jack Laufenberg

He/Him

Interests: Epistemology, Ethics

Education:
M.A., ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒ

Office Hours:
Tuesday, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in my office (Marquette Hall 426)

Ben Lugo

Interests: My philosophic interests, as of late, include Normative and Meta-Ethics, Moral Psychology, Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Value Theory, Personal Identity, and Philosophy of Friendship and Love. My general interests include fitness, movies, and live music.

Education:
B.A. Texas A&M Corpus Christi
M.A. University of Arkansas

Kevin P. McKevitt

He/him/his

Interests: Metaethics, Ethics, Ethics of Belief, Moral Theology, Ethics and Kierkegaard.  Also, Philosophy of Action, 19th and 20th century existential thought in Sartre, Jaspers, and Kierkegaard.

Education:
M.A. California State University - San Jose

Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Marquette Hall 439

Website:  

Khang Nguyen, SJ

He/him

Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology, Existentialism

Education: 
M.A. Boston College

Jeremiah Noonan

Interests: History of Philosophy and Science, Classics/Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Education:
B.A. Seattle University, Philosophy, History
M.A. Duquesne University, Philosophy

Rory O'Donnell

Interests: Plato, Neoplatonism, Metaphysics, Aquinas.

Education:
B.A.  Christendom College, Philosophy and Theology
M.A. Loyola Marymount University, Philosophy 

Caden Page

Interests: Continental and Indigenous Philosophies at the intersection of ontology, phenomenology, environmental philosophy, decolonial thought, and critical animal studies. Secondary interests lie in film theory and media studies, hermeneutics, Ancient Greek philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. 

Education:
B.A. Philosophy, Utah Valley University
M.A. Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University

Office Hours:
By appointment
Marquette Hall 449
Caden.page@marquette.edu 

Joshua Paruch

He/Him/His

Interests: Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film and Literature.

Education:
B.A. University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy
M.A. Duquesne University, Philosophy

Office Hours:
Monday  3 - 5 pm

Amanda Pinto

They/Them/Theirs or She/Her/Hers

Interests: Social political philosophy, phenomenology, feminist theory, Latina/x feminist phenomenology, queer theory, philosophy of race.

Education:
B.A. Philosophy, Appalachian State University
B.A. Psychology, Appalachian State University
M.A. Ethics and Applied Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Office Hours:
Mondays 11:00am-12:30pm
Wednesdays 11:00am-1:30pm

Mariamni Plested

She/her

Interests: Phenomenology, philosophy of pregnancy and birth, philosophy of the body, philosophy of health, Byzantine philosophy.

Education:
M.A. University of Oxford, Theology 
Oxford Brookes University, Midwifery

Paul-Herve Quesnel

Interests: Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Early to High Medieval philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophical Psychology, Epistemology, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, and Aquinas.

Education:
B.A. The Catholic University of America, Philosophy

Office Hours: 
Tuesdays 2pm-4pm
Fridays 1pm-3pm

Cameron Roman

He/Him/His

Interests: Social and Political Thought, Phenomenology, Native American Philosophy, Feminist Theory. Additional Info: Proud PIKSI alum, MAP Representative, Part-time Scholar, Full-time Indigenous.

Education:
B.A. American University, Philosophy
M.A. American University, Philosophy and Social Policy

Andrew Roushdy

Interests: The appropriation of Ancient Greek philosophy by Christian Neoplatonist thinkers

Education:
B.A. Seton Hall University
M.A. Holy Apostles Seminar
Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology, Holy Cross Orthodox Christian School of Theology

Office Hours:
Tuesdays: 4:45-5:00PM, & 6:15-7:30PM
Thursdays: 4:45-5:00PM, & 6:15-7:30PM. 
Room: Cudahy Hall Room 137. 

Philip Sutherland, S.J.

He/Him/His
Interests: Ancient philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Consciousness.

Education:
B.A. Gonzaga University, Chemistry and Religious Studies
M.A. Loyola University Chicago, Philosophy
Boston College, Licentiate in Sacred Theology and Master of Divinity

Warren Scherb

Interests: Social/Political Philosophy (esp. Fanon and Marxism), Ideology, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Education:
Southeastern University, BS
Boston University, MDiv
Duquesne University, MA 

Parker Settecase

Interests: philosophy of mind, substance dualism, machine consciousness, Pythagoreanism and Neoplatonism, history of philosophy and wizards, transcendental arguments, noological arguments in the philosophy of religion, philosophy and fiction.

Education:
B.S. Northern Illinois University, Kinesiology 
M.A. Palm Beach Atlantic University, Philosophy of Religion 
M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Systematic Theology
M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Theological Studies 

Mehran Torabi

Interests: Ancient metaphysics and epistemology, Plato, Neoplatonism, Greek philosophy in the Middle East during the Late antiquity and Early Medieval period, School of Baghdad (9th-12th century). 

Education:
B.A. Univeristy of Colorado Colorado Springs
M.A. Boston College

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2:30-1:30PM (Marquette Hall 441)

Dustin Trampe

He/Him/His

Philosophical Interests: Metaethics, Collective Responsibility, Phenomenology, Kant
Less philosophical interests: spending time with my family, running, learning about history, playing guitar.

Education:
M.A. ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒ, Theology
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philosophy

Domonique Turnipseed

 He/him/his

Interests: Liberation Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Racism, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Applied Ethics.

Education:
B.A. Columbia International University, Humanities
M.A. Columbia International University, Theological Studies
M.A. Biola University , Theological Studies
M.A. Biola University, Philosophy

Website: 

Fun fact: Domonique spent 6 years living in California and I still don't like avocados

John Westbrook

Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Christian Metaphysics, Ethics, History of Philosophy and Modern Philosophy especially Descartes.

Dissertation Topic: My dissertation argues that Descartes’ Discourse on Method should be read as an autobiographical philosophical proto-bildungsroman that traces his intellectual, spiritual, and psychological development. Focusing on his analytic (method of discovery) and synthetic (method of demonstration) methodologies, this interpretation explains the work’s apparent inconsistencies by showing how Descartes’ arguments concerning the soul, God, and scientific knowledge form stages within a unified narrative of philosophical maturation grounded in discovery rather than demonstration.

Education:
A.A. West Hills Community College, Social Science,
A.G.S. Columbia College of Missouri
B.S. University of Nebraska – Kearney: Business Administration, minor
in Economics, Philosophy
B.A. Columbia College of Missouri, History, minor in Psychology
M.A. ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒ, Philosophy
M.S. Lander University, Emergency Management

Additional Information: John retired from the Navy as a Search and Rescue Corpsman and am currently the emergency manager for a hospital in Tucson, Arizona.