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After having been part of the ��������Ƶ University community as adjunct professor since 1998, I welcomed the opportunity to become full time faculty in the Religious Studies/Theology Program and to act as the director of the Certificate in Pastoral Ministry Program. Prior to these appointments, I served as the director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA.

Education

• Ph.D., Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), 2004.

Publications

• “Postcolonial Biblical Hermeneutics: Interpreting with a Genuine Attunement to Otherness.” Analecta Hermeneutica, 4 (2012).

• Ronald Jackson and Ronald Arnett, eds. Encyclopedia of Identity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2010. S.v. "Phenomenology".

• "Stephan Strasser's Philosophical Legacy and Duquesne University's Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center." In Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Volume XCIII, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.

• Review of Transformations: Thinking after Heidegger, by Gail Stenstad. In Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 38 (2007)

• "Paul Ricoeur and Phenomenology." In The Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, edited by Daniel J. Martino. Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 2006.

• "Renew the Face of the Earth: Phenomenology and Ecology." In The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, edited by Daniel J. Martino. Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 2005.

• Review of The Unforgettable and the Unhoped for, by Jean-Louis Chretien. In Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 36 (2005)

• "Daseinsanalysis." In The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, edited by Daniel J. Martino. Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 2004.

Organizations

• College Theology Society

• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

• Heidegger Circle

• International Institute for Hermeneutics

• Postcolonial Studies Association

• International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society

• Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture

Presentations

• "What Are the Central Truths of Scripture?", PATHWAYS - Diocese of Greensburg Adult Faith Formation Program (St Pius X Parish, Mt. Pleasant, PA), October 2022.

• “Technology as a Mysterious Source of Uprooting and Authentic Dwelling in Heidegger’s Later Philosophy.” Paper presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, New Rochelle, NY, June, 2011.

• “Welcoming the Coming Christ of Advent: The ‘O’ Antiphons.” Paper presented the annual Mt. St. Peter Advent lecture series. New Kensington, PA, December 2010.

• "Catholic Social Teaching and ��������Ƶ University" (with Cynthia Magistro and Stephen Honeygosky). Society for Values in Higher Education Institute on Religion in Curriculum and Culture of Higher Education (West Cornwall, CT), June 2008.

• "Tymieniecka's Passions of the Earth and Heidegger's Rooted Poetic Dwelling". 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Washington, DC), December 2006.

• "The Philosophical Legacy of Stephan Strasser". 55th International Phenomenology Congress (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), August 2005.

Achievements

• Visiting Scholar, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University: 2012-13

• Facilitator for Regional Meeting of the College Theology Society devoted to John D. Caputo’s “On the Wings of Angels: Post-humanism and Info-techno-theology”: October 2012

• Course Coordinator, "Faith, Religion and Society" (LA 150)

• Co-Convener of Philosophy of Religion Section for the Annual Convention of the College Theology Society: 2011-

• Member, Mission Effectiveness Committee

• Member, Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee