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Our Graduates
Our DSPT graduates from 2016 to 2026
2026
Mark Joseph Soto
Mateusz Malcherek, O.P.
Elias Guadalupe Ford, O.P.
Advisor: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Tam Hoang Nguyen, O.P.
Advisor: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Dang Khoa Pham, S.D.B.
Advisor: Joseph Boenzi, S.D.B.
Philip Neri Gerlomes, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “How to Divide a Church: Newman and Pugin on Rood Screens”
Coordinator: Chris Renz, O.P.
Clay Bahl, With Honors
Thesis: “Catholic Faith and Intellectual Responsibility: The Problem of Conscientious Doubt”
Coordinator: Dennis Klein, O.P.
Matthew Brown
Thesis: “St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Family: Natural Law and Prudence”
Coordinator: Marianne Farina, C.S.C.
Andrew William DiCrisi
Thesis: “St. Thomas Aquinas on The Analogical Nature of Law and the Legality of Natural Law”
Coordinator: Brad Elliott, O.P.
Freya Gordon
Thesis: “The Circle of Artistic Contemplation and Action: A Thomistic Reading of John Paul II's Letter to Artists”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Tam Hoang Nguyen, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Aquinas's Perspective on the Problem of Evil as an Approach to Finding Meaning in Suffering”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Justin Tejeda
Thesis: “Actus Purus et Supra Ens: St. Thomas' Theological Synthesis of Aristotle and Dionysius”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Francis Dominic Nguyen, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “The Central Role of the Cogitative Power in Rational Thought and Action”
Coordinator: Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P.
Benedict Mary Bartsch, O.P.
Advisor: Chris Renz, O.P.
Luke Maria Lee, O.P.
Advisor: Marianne Farina, C.S.C.
Katherine Thayer,
Advisor: Michael Glowasky, Ph.D.
John Peter Anderson, O.P.
Advisor: Marga Vega, Ph.D.
Jordan Martin, O.P.
Advisor: Marga Vega, Ph.D.
2025
Miguel Melendez
Tu Hoang
Piotr Orzechowski, O.P.
Piotr Skibiński, O.P.
Austin Cambon, O.F.M. Cap.
Columban Hall, O.P.
Quang Damien Ho, S.D.B.
Antony Augustine Cherian, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “The Story of Suffering: The Use of Narrative in Christian History to Address the Problem of Suffering”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Nathaniel Maria Mayne, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Aquinas’s logo of the Hypostatic Union: The Successor of Post-Chalcedonian Christology”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P
Thomas Arnold
Thesis: "Sensing the Creature and Naming the Creator: Natural logo in the Service of Revealed logo"
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Joseph David Rodrigues, With Honors
Thesis: “Lessons from the Tombs: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Asceticism of St. Antony the Great and the 12-Step Program"
Coordinator: Matthew J. Thomas, D.Phil
Issac Choi, With Honors
Thesis: “Being in Many Ways: An Account of the Unity and Diversity of Esse"
Coordinator: James Kintz, Ph.D.
Aidan Guthrie
Thesis: "The Intellect According to Aristotle and the Early Reception of De Anima 3.5"
Coordinator: Ambrose Sigman, O.P.
Elias Guadalupe Ford, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: "Architecture’s Role in Virtuous Development according to Aristotle and Christopher Alexander"
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Heidi Keene, With Honors
Thesis: “The Fourth Transcendental: Relata The Personal Mode of Existence in Intelligent Beings: A Scholastic Phenomenological Synthesis”
Athanasius Thompson, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: "More than a Crocodile: Leviathan and the Combat Myth in the Book of Job"
Coordinator: Matthew J. Thomas, D.Phil
2024
Dominicus Maria Armbruster, O.P.
Katherine Arnaud-Seybold
Łukasz Pasich, O.P.
Bartłomiej Rogula, O.P.
Nikolas Barth, OFM Cap
Advisor: Chris Renz, O.P.
Andrew Thomas Kang, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Instinctus Spiritus Sancti, Instinctus Rationis: The Relation Between Divine Instinct and Human Reason in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit According to St. Thomas Aquinas”
Coordinator: Marianne Farina, CSC
Scott Norgaard, O.P.
Thesis: “Sacrifice Your Son: A Thomiastic Comparison of the Akedah and Calvary as the Basis of Worship”
Coordinator: Matthew Thomas, D.Phil
Ruvianne Dela Cruz Mercado
Thesis: “The Compatibility Between Self-Love and Self-Denial in the Spiritual Life According to the Teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas"
Coordinator: Michael Glowalsky, Ph.D
Paola Pruett-Vergara
Thesis: “The Mystery and the Glory: An Augustinian Critique of Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory”
Coordinator: Michael Glowalsky, Ph.D
Paschal Strader, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Arguments From an Ordered Universe: Fine-Tuning vs. Final Causality"
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Kellen Troxell
Thesis: “Partem Capere: A Thomistic Contribution to the Understanding of Actuosa Participatio in the Liturgy”
Coordinator: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Columban Mary Hall, OP - with honors
Thesis: “Finding Wisdom: Why Metaphysics Depends on a Proof for Immaterial Being”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Joshua Peck
Thesis: “The Essence of Story: An Investigation of the Inception, Creation, and Reception of Stories”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Megan Watson
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
2023
Julian Stolarczyk, O.P.
Piotr Tasak, O.P.
Phong Nguyen, O.P.
John Paul Puschautz, O.P.
Patrick Rooney, O.P.
Christopher Das
Thesis: “The Disputed Question on Our Discovery of the Subject of Metaphysics: Re-examining Jacques Maritain’s Intuition of Being”
Coordinator: Marga Vega, Ph.D
Patrick Cooley
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Mara Gilbert
Advisor: Marga Vega, Ph.D
Nick Libby
Advisor: Marga Vega, Ph.D
2022
Paweł Buczek, O.P.
Łukasz Janik, O.P.
David Woo
Justinus Grebowicz, O.P.
Joshua Gatus, O.P.
Matthew Heynen, O.P.
Cody Jorgensen, O.P.
Joseph Selinger, O.P.
Matthew Wanner, O.P.
Thesis: “Why Gregory the Great Emphasized the Day of Final Judgment”
Coordinator: Matthew J. Thomas, D.Phil
Josiah Lerman
Thesis: “A Novel Program and a Catholic Solution”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Joseph Reveles
Thesis: “Ontology and Existentialism: Re-Examining the Heidegger-Sartre Debate”
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Kate Krammer
Advisor: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Jarett Bilash
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Courtney Therien
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Thomas
2021
Fr. Kristian Laygo, SDB
Br. Peter Le, SDB
Fr. Gregory Liu, O.P.
Rev. Br. Chrysostom Mijinke, O.P.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Br. Martin Maria Nguyen, O.P.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Br. Victor Taglianetti, OFM Cap.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Fr. Gerardo Toscano, CJ
Advisor: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Jonathan Crane, With Honors
Thesis: "A Philosophical and Theological Examination of the Relationship Between the God of Love and Horrendous Evil"
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Alex Rogers, With Honors
Thesis: "The Road to Damascus: St. Paul and the Phenomenology of the Event of Jesus Christ"
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Janice Clark
Thesis: "Hegel on Music: Sound and Sense in Sync"
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Fr. Cody Jorgensen, OP
Thesis: "The Unity of Musical Feeling: An Aristotelian-Thomistic Engagement with Susanne Langer"
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
John Lee
Thesis: "The Intellect as Form: Analysis of the Thought of William Jaworski and Thomas Aquinas"
Coordinator: Dr. Marga Vega
Mark Peters
Thesis: "Aquinas and the Arabs on Prophecy: Is Prophecy of Nature or Divine Origin?"
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Patrick Rooney, O.P. - With Honors
Thesis: "The Un-composed Composer: A Thomistic Argument for the Existence of God"
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Joseph Selinger, O.P.
Thesis: "Speaking the Unspeakable: Analogia Proportionalitatis and Formale Anzeige Compared"
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Fr. Matthew Minh Tri Le, SDB
Thesis: "Saint Frances de Sales: A Pastor for Young People"
Coordinator: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Fr. Vien Nguyen, SDB
Thesis: "Saint John Bosco in the thought of Pope John Paul II"
Coordinator: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Taylor Barrett
Advisor: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Jonathan Chavez
Advisor: Dr. Marga Vega
Andrew Nguyen
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
Ryan Leffingwell
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Joshua Dalton Winfree
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Raphael Domingo
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
2020
Pawel Jamroz, O.P.
Jacek Kepinski, O.P.
Gregory Liu, O.P.
Thesis: ”A Thomistic Response to the Debate on Human Nature in Ancient China”
Vien Minh Nguyen, SDB
Advisor: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Giulia Arcuri
Thesis: ”Mystagogical Catechesis: Elements of Effective Mystagogy for RCIA”
Coordinator: Christopher Renz, O.P.
Elizabeth Kovacs
Thesis: ”Intention and Effect: Liturgical Anamnesis Withstanding Plato's Critique of Mimesis”
Coordinator: Christopher Renz, O.P.
Benjamin Baxter
Advisor: John Thomas Mellein, O.P.
Dean M. Covalt
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Michael Salvatore Politz
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
Fr. Sebastine Bula
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
2019
Karol Babis, O.P.
David Chiavetta
Andrzej Monka, O.P.
John Jay Winkowitsch, O.P.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Jose Isidro Belleza
Thesis: ”Lex Loquendi, Lex Orandi: Pickstock, Aquinas, and the Reform of the Roman Offertoria”
Coordinator: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Qi Zeng
Thesis: ”How Readers Enter the World in Front of the Text: Reading the Rich Young Man in Mark’s Gospel with Paul Ricoeur”
Coordinator: Edward Krasevac, O.P.
Ahmad Rhatib Karkoutli
Thesis: “The Philosophy of Illumination in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Suhrawardi”
Coordinator: Marianne Farina, CSC
John Robert Taylor
Thesis: “Unconcealing the Traditional Conception of Truth: Between Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas”
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Christopher Ford
Thesis: “St. Francis de Sales: Preacher”
Coordinator: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Fr. Adrian L. Mendoza, SDB
Thesis: “Saint Francis de Sales’ Youth Crisis: A Journey Towards Devout Life”
Coordinator: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Matthew James Heynen, O.P.
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Fr. Duong Nguyen
Advisor: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Dean Covalt
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Jedeiah Esteves
Advisor: Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Andrew Opsahl, OP
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
2018
Janice A. Clark
Martin Vinzenz Holzmann, OP
Piotr Jakub Laskowski, OP
Kristi Lentz Taylor
Michael Stevens
Mariusz Stopa, OP
Christopher Louis Wetzel, O.P.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Michael Grace, KM
Thesis: “Aquinas’s De Regno and the Recovery of Political Philosophy”
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Seth Kreeger
Thesis: “Understanding Thomas Aquinas’s Doctrine of Analogy in Light of his Conception of the Science of Metaphysics”
Coordinator: Margarita Vega, Ph.D
Judith K. Cole
Thesis: “Humanizing the Emotions: The Eucharist’s Perfecting of the Passion of Desire”
Coordinator: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Christopher Silva
Thesis: “The Witness of the Magi: The Meaning of the Visitors from the East in Art and Culture”
Coordinator: Christopher Renz, O.P.
Michael Harold Walker, III
Thesis: “The Vernacular of the Tabernacle: Eucharistic Mysticism in Richard Crashaw and Saint Teresa of Avila”
Coordinator: Christopher Renz, O.P.
Michael Haist
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
Chrysostom Mijinke, OP
Advisor: Justin Gable, O.P.
2017
Bernadette Dolores Ament
Hong-Rak Chae
Powanat Kitsawat, SDB
Francis Lawrence, Klimecki
Michal Kumorek, OP
Adrian L. Mendoza, SDB
Massimo Schwarzel, SDB
Pius Youn, O.P.
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Jonathan Matthew Amaral
Thesis: “Plato on Mind-Body Interaction”
Coordinator: Eugene Ludwig, OFM Cap
Emmanuel Benjamin, With Honors
Thesis: “A Study of Mar Narsai’s Three Homilies on the East Syrian Liturgical Season of Annunciation”
Coordinator: Eugene Ludwig, OFM Cap
Christopher Louis Wetzel, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Analogy in Contemporary Physics and the logo of Divine Action”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Sacrifice in the Natural Law According to Saint Thomas Aquinas”
Coordinator: Edward Krasevac, O.P.
Noland W. Brown
“Putnam's Rejection of Metaphysical Realism”
Advisor: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Jennifer Lehmann
Thesis: “Second Sons and Mammas’ Boys: Masculinity in the Jacob Story”
Coordinator: Barbara Green, O.P.
Kevin Andrew
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
David Michael Basile
Advisor: Edward Krasevac, O.P.
Michele Aileen Berrios
Advisor: Edward Krasevac, O.P.
Paul McCaffery Ford
Advisor: Edward Krasevac, O.P.
Barbara Grace Graichen
Advisor: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Claire Marie Herrick
Advisor: Christopher Renz, O.P.
Benjamin Lu
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Jeremy James Mallett
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Seira Matsushima
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
John Paul Ochoa
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
Michael L. Pomo
Advisor: Joseph Boenzi, SDB
Anne Pym McDonald
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
William Turrentine
Advisor: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
2016
George Kuriakose Nedumkallel, SDB
Marcin Slowik, O.P.
Luis Carlos Valencia-Osorio
Yoon Mankeun, SDB
Thomas Patrick Greerty, KM
Capstone Project: "Pope Francis Legal Center: Mediation, Reconciliation, Resolution"
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
Sandra Elizabeth Tasca
Capstone Project: "Illuminated Manuscript
Advisor: Marianne Farina, CSC
Asher “Ephraim” Alkhas
Thesis: “Philosophical Terms and Anthropology in the Christology of Mar Babai the Great and St. Maximus the Confessor”
Coordinator: Eugene Ludwig, OFM Cap
Christopher Thomas Caruso
Thesis: “The Indispensability of the Body for Human Happiness”
Coordinator: Marianne Farina, CSC
Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “The Metaphysics of Meaning: Applying a Thomistic Ontology of Art to a Contemporary Hermeneutical Puzzle and the Problem of the Sensus Literalis.”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Matthew Sanford Horwitz
Thesis: “Omnis hierarchiae finis est unitas et similitudo ad Deum: The Role of the Corpus Dionysiacum in Thomas Aquinas’s Portrayal of the Church as the Hierarchical Context for Deification in the Scriptum super Sententiis”
Coordinator: Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.
Tomasz Mikolajski, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “The Paradox of Petitionary Prayer to an Omniscient, Omnibenevolent and Immutable God”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Nicholas Senz
Thesis: “The True Forestructure: Gadamerian Elements in Congar’s logo of Tradition”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Matthew J. Sills
Thesis: “Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on the Will”
Coordinator: Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Nicholas Case
Thesis: “Thomisms: The Methodological Plurality in the Study of St. Thomas”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Michael Onofre
Thesis: “Max Scheler’s Theory of Value and Personhood”
Coordinator: Eugene Ludwig, OFM Cap
Michaela Teresa Sobrak-Seaton, With Honors
Thesis: “What Language Tells Us About Who We Are: Thomas Aquinas and Donald Davidson on Language and Human Nature”
Coordinator: Justin Gable, O.P.
Robert William Verrill, O.P., With Honors
Thesis: “Corporeal Substances, Tangible Qualities and the Four Elements”
Coordinator: Michael Dodds, O.P.
Christopher Brannan, O.P.
Coordinator: Barbara Green, O.P.