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Education
The Catholic University
of America, Washington, D.C. (1996–2002)
Ph.D. Philosophy,
October 2002
Dissertation: The Ecstasy of Love in Thomas Aquinas
Director: Kevin White, Ph.D.
The Catholic University
of America, Washington, D.C. (1994–1996)
M.A. Philosophy,
May 1996
Thesis: The
Dialectic of Reason and Faith in Descartes’s “Meditationes
de prima philosophia”
Director: Richard Hassing, Ph.D.
Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA (1990–1994)
B.A. Liberal Arts, June 1994
Thesis: Political Authority in Shakespeare’s “Henry V” and the “Henry VI” Trilogy
Current Appointments
ASSISTANT ACADEMIC DEAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
INSTRUCTOR IN MUSIC HISTORY AND THEORY
Wyoming Catholic College
Lander, Wyoming, USA
VISITING PROFESSOR
International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family
Gaming, Austria
Former Appointments
ACTING ACADEMIC DEAN (July 2005–July 2006)
International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family
Gaming, Austria
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY (December 1998–September 2006)
International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family
Gaming, Austria
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC (January 2001–December 2003)
Austrian Program of the Franciscan University of Steubenville
LECTURER, 2005 Summer Seminar
The Phoenix Institute Europe Foundation
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of nature, metaphysics, and ethics in the Aristotelian and Thomist traditions; ecclesiology; sacramental and liturgical theology; Catholic social doctrine.
Areas of Competence
Ancient Greek philosophy (esp. Aristotle, Plato, and Plotinus); medieval philosophy and theology (esp. Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Ockham, Scotus); early modern philosophy (esp. Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, and others of their period); history of political philosophy (esp. during the period of the Enlightenment); fundamental dogmatic theology and fundamental moral theology.
Membership in professional societies
American Catholic Philosophical Association (from 1996).
Society of Catholic Social Scientists (from 2004).
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (from 2005).
Society of Chrisitan Philosophers (from 2006).
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