Faculty Fellows
Dr. Thérèse Bonin
Thérèse Bonin is an associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University. She specializes in medieval and Islamic philosophy, with special interests in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. She created and maintains an Aquinas bibliography and serves as a member of the Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue. She is currently suffering from a case of invisibility and has no photograph.
Dr. Joel Brady
Joel Brady teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Eastern Christianity and religions of the west, more broadly, in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Department of Church History at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary, in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Stephen Calme
Stephen Calme is an assistant professor of theology at Carlow University.
Dr. jonathan p. caulkins
Jonathan P. Caulkins is the H. Guyford Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Elizabeth cochran
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran is Professor of Theology at Duquesne University and the author of two monographs on virtue ethics in historical Christian thought. Her current research explores the ways that attention to autism spectrum disorder enriches and complicates traditional understandings of the virtues and human flourishing in Christian theology and western philosophy.
Dr. Allyson Creasman
Dr. Creasman is an associate professor and the associate head of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on religious reform and confessional relations, as well as issues of social discipline and criminality, in the early modern German cities.
Dr. Michael Deem
Michael J. Deem is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics in the School of Public Health, with primary teaching and service responsibilities in the Center for Bioethics & Health Law.
Dr. Andrew Dierkes
Andrew Dierkes is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing whose research aims to leverage healthcare’s largest professional workforce—nurses—to improve quality, costs, and outcomes of care.
Dr. john dolan
John M. Dolan is a Professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University whose research focuses on autonomous driving and multirobot systems.
Kristin Gottron
Kristin graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with Bachelor's degrees in Industrial Engineering and Classics (Latin Language track). She then went on to obtain a Master's Degree in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She has worked in industry at FedEx for the past eight years, first as an Industrial Engineer and later transitioning to the role of Data Architect in IT, which is still her current position. Her job duties include designing data systems for corporate initiatives that utilize modern software solutions to plan transportation and logistics for package shipments within the FedEx network. Her current scholarly interests involve the application of Catholic Social Teaching to the fields of logistics and Information Technology, especially the rights and responsibilities of management and IT towards developers and front-line workers.
The rev. daniel hall, md, Mdiv, mhsc
The Rev. Daniel E Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc is an Episcopal priest, general surgeon, medical ethicist and health services researcher whose work focuses on helping physicians and patients choose treatment that is not only technically excellent, but normatively good.
Dr. Gretchen Huizinga
Gretchen Huizinga is a research fellow and board member of AI and Faith, an organization that brings the fundamental values of the world’s major religions into the emerging debate on ethical artificial intelligence. She is also a podcast host and principal investigator for the Beatrice Institute’s initiative Being Human in an Age of AI. She is passionate about foregrounding the Christian origins of ethics in computer science education and is working on a book titled Righteous AI: The Christian Voice in the Ethical AI Conversation.
Dr. Anthony Isacco
Dr. Isacco is a professor and the directory of training of the PsyD program at Chatham University. His research and clinical interests include positive father involvement, religious and spiritual factors to men's health
Dr. Cecile Ladouceur
Dr. Ladouceur is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a clinical child psychologist and Director of the Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience and Development (CAN-D) Laboratory. Her research program focuses on understanding how altered development of neural networks implicated in emotion processing and regulation contributes to the rise of anxiety or mood disorders during adolescence, with a particular focus on the role of pubertal maturation.
Dr. Grant Martsolf
Grant Martsolf is a Research Fellow at Beatrice Institute and a Professor and UPMC Health Systems Chair in Nursing Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include policy and practice related to advance practice nursing, class and health, and health policy and human flourishing.
Dr. Calum Matheson
Calum Matheson is an Associate Professor of Public Deliberation and Civic Life in Pitt’s Department of Communication whose research focuses on rhetoric, media, and psychoanalysis in extremist groups, conspiracy theories, and American subcultures.
DR. IRENE MENA
Irene Mena is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science department, and the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program, at the University of Pittsburgh. She currently teaches first-year engineering courses, as well as an elective course focusing on the topics of social entrepreneurship and sustainability. She loves to read, especially with one of her two cats curled up next to her. Her favorite places in Oakland are the Carnegie Library and the Pittsburgh Oratory.
Dr. kevin mongrain
Kevin Mongrain is a professor of Theology with a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale. He is a scholar of the Catholic intellectual, Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Dr. Marta Peciña
Marta Peciña is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Translational Neuropsychopharmacology and Neuroimaging Lab. Her research aims to examine individual differences in mechanisms of antidepressant treatment response in order to identify new targets for therapeutic interventions.
Dr. David Sanchez
Dr. Sanchez is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. His research is focused on identifying sustainable designs that address the Water and Energy grand challenges in the natural and built environment on a local/regional scale
Dr. William Scott
William Scott’s research and teaching focus on American Literature, African American Literature, poetry/poetics, and linguistics (generative syntax and phonology; minimalist program; biolinguistics).
Dr. luke sheahan
Luke C. Sheahan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and author of Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism.
Dr. anthony m. wachs
Anthony M. Wachs, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Communication Ethics & the Catholic Intellectual Tradition in Duquesne University’s Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, is interested in the intersection of rhetoric, religion and society.
Dr. Kurt Weiss
Dr. Kurt R. Weiss is a native Pittsburgher who has been involved with research since 1994, and is now an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Musculoskeletal Oncology.
Dr. Kenneth Woo
Kenneth J. Woo is Associate Professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. His research interests include John Calvin, global Reformed traditions, and the intersection of biblical interpretation and religious violence during the sixteenth-century European reformations.