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.
Nicholas Sparks
Email: nicholas.sparks@slu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, ethics, continental philosophy.
Josh Taccolini
Email: joshua.taccolini@slu.edu
Research Interests: Emotions, values, normativity theory.
Alexander Zhang
Email: alexander.h.zhang@slu.edu
Yiling Zhou
Email: yiling.zhou@slu.edu
Research Interests: Ethics and moral psychology.
Jacob Zimbelman
Email: jacob.zimbelman@slu.edu
Research Interests: Intuition, perception, theory choice, Christian neoplatonism, practical reasoning.
Master's Students
Augustine Culligan, OP
Email: joseph.culligan@slu.edu
Research Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.
Joseph Hilliker, OP
Email: cullen.hilliker@slu.edu
Research interests: Bioethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.
Christopher Ross, S.J.
Research interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics.
Jonathan Spates
Email: jonathan.spates@slu.edu
Research interests: Metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.