Current Graduate Students

Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.

Doctoral Students

Matilda Ajibola

Email: matilda.ajibola@slu.edu

Research Interests: Bioethics, human enhancement, reproductive technologies, social justice.

Joel Carini

Email: joel.carini@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of language, ethics, moral psychology.

Michael Cevering

Email: michael.cevering@slu.edu

Research Interests: Comparative philosophy, including Asian and continental; ethics; modern philosophy; philosophy of religion, especially Mormon philosophy; skepticism.

Ben Conover

Research Interests: Metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Isabel Cortens

Email: isabel.cortens@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ancient philosophy.

Joel Cox

Email: joel.cox@slu.edu

Research Interests: Moral philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, abortion, social ontology, and liberalism.

Caleb Estep

Email: caleb.estep@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy.

Derek Estes

Email: derek.estes@slu.edu

Research Interests: Bioethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology.

Charles Freiberg

Email: charles.freiberg@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.

Cynthia Gonzalez

Email: Cynthia.l.gonzalez@slu.edu

Research Interests: Applied ethics (esp. bioethics and public philosophy), politics, art and aesthetics, and history of philosophy.

Daniel Grasso

Email: daniel.grasso@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, metaphysics, friendship, and Dostoevsky.

Ataollah Hashemi

Email: ataollah.hashemi@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of religion.

Rebecca Hicks

Email: rebecca.hicks@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient Greek, medieval and neoplatonic philosophy.

Chris Holland

Email: christopher.holland@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, metaethics, and philosophical logic.

Jacob Huls

Email: jacob.huls@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.

Thes Kascsak

Email: thes.kascsak@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, happiness and well-being, philosophy of religion.

En Suan Lian (Fr. Steve)

Email: ensuan.lian@slu.edu

Research Interests: Medieval, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology.

Xuya Ma

Email: xuya.ma@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion.

Cecilia Nicklaus

Email: cecilia.nicklaus@slu.edu

Research Interests: Social Epistemology and Metaphysics.

Benjamin Parviz

Email: benjamin.parviz@slu.edu

Research Interests: Hope, despair, Gabriel Marcel, and bioethics.

James Pepe

Email: James.pepe@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and thomistic angelology.

Ryan Powers

Email: ryan.a.powers@slu.edu

Research Interests: Value theory, philosophy of science, history of philosophy.

Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Email: pedro.rapallozubillaga@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, especially social ontology and the philosophy of fiction.

Montaque Reynolds

Email: montaque.reynolds@slu.edu

Research Interests: Epistemology (especially virtue), philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind.

Virginia Sotelo

Email: virginia.sotelo@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.