Program Alumni

Graduated Ph.D. Students

in the Early Christian Studies Program since 1993

 

 

John J. O’Keefe (1993): “Interpreting the Angel: Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentators on the Book of Malachi.”  Dr O’Keefe is Professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.  Among other works, he has published (with R.R. Reno), Sanctified Vision: an Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

 

Jeffrey L. McDonald (May 1995): “The Christological Works of the Emperor Justinian”

 

The Revd Panayiotis E. Papageorgiou (May 1995): “A Theological Analysis of Selected Themes in the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans.”  Dr Papageorgiou is parish priest (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America) at Marietta, GA.

 

The Revd Joseph Torchia, O.P. (May 1995): “The Theological Significance of the Doctrine of Creatio ex nihilo in St. Augustine’s Anti-Manichean Polemic.”  Dr Torchia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, Providence, RI, and Editor-in-Chief of The Thomist.  He is author of Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St Augustine: the Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1999), and Exploring Personhood: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Nature (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

 

Sr Gertrude Gillette, O.S.B. (May 1996): “The Glory of God in Augustine’s Enarrationes in psalmos.”  Sister Gertrude is Associate Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University in Naples, FL.

 

The Very Revd Michael A. Mascari, O.P. (May 1996): “Zeno, Gaudentius, and Chromatius: the Dynamics of Preaching in Northern Italy.”  Father Mascari is Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of Albert the Great (with its headquarters in Chicago, IL) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Providence College, Providence, RI.

 

Carole Cole Burnett (May 1996): “God’s Self-Revelation in the Theology of Pelagius."  Dr Burnett is Staff Editor of the series "Fathers of the Church," published by the Catholic University of America Press, and teaches history in the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, MD.

 

Stanley P. Rosenberg (May 1999): “Christianizing the Cosmos: Intellectual and Popular Cosmology in Saint Augustine.”  Dr Rosenberg is a member of the Theology Faculty at Oxford University and Director of the Centre for Scholarship and Christianity, also in Oxford.

 

Cornelia Horn (May 2001): “Beyond Theology: the Career of Peter the Iberian in the Christological Controversies of Fifth-Century Palestine.”  Dr Horn is Assistant Professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics at St Louis University, St Louis, MO.  She is author of Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: the Career of Peter the Iberian (Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006).

 

Demetrios Katos (May 2001): “Palladius of Helenopolis: Origenist Monk and Writer of the Fifth Century.”  Dr Katos is a Lecturer in the Department of Theology at Boston College.

 

Robert E. Winn (January 2002): “The Theology of Eusebius of Emesa.”  Dr Winn is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa.

 

William E. Fahey (May 2002): “Maximus of Turin and his Late Antique Community.”  After some years at Christendom College, Front Royal, VA, where he was Chair of the Department of Classical and Early Christian Studies, Dr Fahey was appointed Provost and Professor of Humanities at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH.

 

Mihai Vlad Niculescu (December 2002): “Origen’s Mystagogical Paideia.”  Dr Niculescu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Bradley University in Peoria, IL.  He is author of The Spell of the Logos: Origen's Pedagogy in the Contemporary Debate Regarding Logocentrism (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009), and (in Romanian) of Theology and Retractation [Teologie si retractare]: A Phenomenological Approach to Patristic Literature (Iasi: Sapientia, 2003).

 

C. Clark Carlton (November 2002): “The Dogmatic and Ascetical Theology of St. Mark the Monk.”  Dr Carlton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN.

 

Lois Farag (February 2003): “St. Cyril of Alexandria, a New Exegete: his Exegetical Method and Theology as Presented in his Commentary on the Gospel of John.”  Dr Farag is Assistant Professor of Early Church History at the Luther Seminary in St Paul, MN.  She is author of St Cyril of Alexandria, a New Testament Exegete: his Commentary on the Gospel of John (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007).

 

Joel Kalvesmaki (May 2006): “Formation of the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Platonic Gnōsis.”  Dr Kalvesmaki is Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

 

Eric Phillips (May 2006): “Man and Salvation in Theodore of Mopsuestia”

 

Anne Seville (December 2007): "Ascetics and Society in Nilus of Ancyra: Old Testament Imagery as a Model for Personal and Social Reform."  Dr Seville teaches history in the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St Mary's Seminary and University, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at Loyola College, both in Baltimore, MD.

 

Jonathan Loopstra (March 2009): "Patristic Quotations in the 'Massoretic' Handbooks of the Qarqapta Tradition."  Dr Loopstra teaches at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington DC.  During 2009-2010, he will be teaching and conducting research at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani.

 

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