Faculty Directory

Deans 

John C. McCarthy
Dean

mccartjc@cua.edu
(202) 319-5259
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Phenomenology

Matthias Vorwerk
Associate Dean

vorwerk@cua.edu
(202) 319-6652
Ph.D., Universität Münster
Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism

Faculty 

Sr. Marian Brady, S.P.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

brady@cua.edu
(202) 319-6651
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Biomedical Ethics 

James Brent, O.P.

Assistant Professor

brent@cua.edu
(202) 319-5890
Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Aquinas, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion 

Jean DeGroot
Associate Professor

degroot@cua.edu
(202) 319-6647
Ph.D., Harvard University
History and Philosophy of Science, Aristotle, and Ancient Philosophy

Gregory T. Doolan
Associate Professor

doolan@cua.edu
(202) 319-6650
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Metaphysics, Aquinas, Medieval Philosophy

Thérèse-Anne Druart 
Professor

druart@cua.edu
(202) 319-6653
Ph.D., Université de Louvain
Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Plato, Metaphysics

Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.
Clinical Assistant Professor

gardnera@cua.edu
(202) 319-5910
Ph.D., Boston College
Ethics, Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

Michael Gorman
Associate Professor

gorman@cua.edu
(202) 319-6642
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo; Ph.D., Boston College
Analytic Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Mind

Richard F. Hassing
Associate Professor

hassing@cua.edu
(202) 319-6657
Ph.D., Cornell University
History and Philosophy of Science, Aristotle, Early Modern Philosophy 

Tobias Hoffmann
Associate Professor

hoffmann@cua.edu
(202) 319-6643
Ph.D., Université de Fribourg
Medieval philosophy, Aquinas, Scotus 

Cristina Ionescu
Assistant Professor

ionescu@cua.edu
(202) 319-6641
Ph.D., University of Guelph
Plato, Ancient Greek Philosophy

Angela McKay Knobel
Associate Professor

knobel@cua.edu
(202) 319-6692
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Virtue Ethics, Aquinas

V. Bradley Lewis
Associate Professor

lewisb@cua.edu
(202) 319-6654
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Political Philosophy     

Virgil P. Nemoianu
William J. Byron Distinguished
Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy

nemoianv@cua.edu
(202) 319-5488
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture

Timothy Noone
Professor

noonet@cua.edu
(202) 319-6646
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Medieval Philosophy, Franciscan Tradition 

John Rist
Father Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Chair in Philosophy

johnmrist@yahoo.co.uk
202-319-6645
M.A. in Classics, University of Cambdrige, 1963
Ancient Philosophy, Neoplatonism, Patristics, Ethics

Michael Rohlf
Assistant Professor

rohlf@cua.edu
(202) 319-6655
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Kant, Modern Philosophy

Msgr. Robert Sokolowski
The Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy

sokolowski@cua.edu
(202) 319-6644
Ph.D., Université de Louvain
Phenomenology, Husserl, Aristotle

Kevin White
Associate Professor

whitek@cua.edu
(202) 319-6658
Ph.D., University of Ottawa
Medieval Philosophy, Aquinas, Philosophy of Human Nature  

Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
Clinical Assistant Professor

wilsonjd@cua.edu
(202) 319-5910
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics 

Msgr. John F. Wippel
The Theodore Basselin Professor of Philosophy

wippel@cua.edu
(202) 319-6648
Ph.D., Université de Louvain
Metaphysics, History of Medieval Philosophy, Aquinas  

Emeritus Faculty 

Jude P. Dougherty
Dean Emeritus, Editor of The Review of Metaphysics

dougherj@cua.edu
(202) 319-5589
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, American Philosophy 

Rev. George McLean, O.M.I.
Professor Emeritus

mclean@cua.edu
(202) 319-6089
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Director, The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy 

Rev. William A. Wallace, O.P.
Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., S.T.D., Université de Fribourg
History and Philosophy of Science, Aristotle, Aquinas, Galileo 

Associates of the Faculty 

Charles C. McCarthy

mcarthc@cua.edu
(301) 840-1407
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Ethics, Philosophy of Human Nature 

Mary Ann Cashman-McGuire

cashmanmcgui@cua.edu
(202) 319-5259 
Ed.D., The Catholic University of America
Speech, Drama

Alfred Miller

(202) 319-5259
M.D., Harvard Medical School; Ph.D., University of Hamburg
Aristotle, Philosophy of Physics   

Maria Miller

(202) 319-5259
Ph.D., Biology  

Gregory Reichberg

greg@prio.no
(202) 319-5259
Ph.D., Emory University
Neo-Thomist Philosophy, Peace Studies

Rev. David Thayer, S.S.

thayer@cua.edu
(202) 319-5259
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Philosophy of Knowledge, Philosophy of Social Science  

Msgr. James Watkins

(202) 319-5259
Ph.D., Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
Philosophy of God

Holger Zaborowski
Associate Professor

D. Phil., Oxford University
German Philosophy