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May 10, 2024
Education
2022: Ph.D. in Religious Studies
Historical Theology
Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017: M.T.S.
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
2015: B.A. summa cum laude
Majors: Classical Languages and Theology
Minor: Spanish
Aquinas Scholars Honors Program
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Appointment
2022- : Assistant Professor of Theology and Fellow of the Core
University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” in Maximus in the Latin West [Title Pending], edited by Kevin Clarke and Thomas Cattoi (Brill: Leiden).
2021
“Catechisms, Communion, and Latin Scholastic Reception of Byzantine Thought: St. John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium.” Nova et Vetera, 19.4 (Fall 2021).
Book Reviews
2021
“Michael W. Lucas’s Absolute FreeBSD (3rd Edition): A Scholar’s Review,” FreeBSD Journal, July/August.
Kantzer Komline, Han-Luen. Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account. Thomistica. August 14.
2018
Other Publications
2023
“C is to BSD what Latin is to Us: A Theologian’s Report of His Trip to Present at BSDCan 2023,” FreeBSD Journal, July/August
2021
“FreeBSD for the Writing Scholar,” FreeBSD Journal, January/February
2018
“Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer for Good Friday,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 28.
“Hans Urs von Balthasar and Praying with the Church Fathers,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 1.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships
2024: Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
2023: Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
2021: Hank Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition [where I have a profile], Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University Chicago
2021: North American Patristics Society’s Dissertation Progress Grant
2021: ULINE Cybersecurity Training Opportunity Grant, Center for Cyber Security & Awareness, Marquette University
2019: Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University
2018: Outstanding Student Paper Prize, 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society
Paper: “Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity: The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate”
2018: Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University
2017–2022: Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University
2016: Individual Conference Grant, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Student Forum
2016: Individual Conference Grant, Boston College Graduate Student Association
2015–2017: Dean’s Fellowship, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
2015: Partnership-in-Learning Grant, University of St. Thomas
Advisor: Mark DelCogliano, Ph.D.
2014: Collaborative Inquiry Grant, University of St. Thomas
Advisor: Mark McInroy, Ph.D.
2014: Theta Alpha Kappa’s Undergraduate Achievement Award
2011–2015: Aquinas Scholars Honors Program, University of St. Thomas
All Semesters: Dean’s List, University of St. Thomas
Conference Activity
Sessions Led
2022
“Maximus the Confessor in the Medieval Latin West,” The 2022 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Hyatt Regency of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May 28
Paper Presented: “Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion”
Panelists: Jonathan Bieler, Vladimir Cvetkovic, and Benjamin Heidgerken
Respondent: Thomas Cattoi
Papers Presented
2024
“Summa Tetraodontidae: Thomas Aquinas Explores OpenBSD’s Medieval Orderliness,” BSDCan 2024, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, May [Schedule Pending]
2023
“How to Incorporate Real-world Data into the Scholarship-Aware and Libre Computer Game 0 A.D. for Ancient History and Language Instruction,” Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 19
“Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation’: A Case Study in Patristic Devotion and Polemics in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism,” Development of Early Christian Theology Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 18
“John Damascene as Maximus the Confessor’s Student in De fide orthodoxa 58 and 59,” 2023 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies / Association canadienne des études patristiques, 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 28
“BSD for Researching, Writing, and Teaching in the Liberal Arts,” BSDCan 2023, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, May 20
2022
“A Move Toward the Pervasive Maximianism of the Tertia Pars: Nicetas of Heraclea’s Quotations of Maximus the Confessor in Aquinas’s Catena in Lucam,” Thomas Aquinas II: The Catena aurea, 57th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (Virtual), May 12
“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, February 10
2021
“‘Et superiorum et posteriorum’: Difficulties Dating St. Augustine’s De consensu evangelistarum,” The 2021 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Hyatt Regency of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Virtual), May 26
“‘The Power to Save Perfectly’: John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa 58 & 59 as Mediators of Maximian Soteriology,” Hope and Death, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida (Virtual), February 11
“FOSS for the Professional Historian: Optimizing a Multisource Historical Research Workflow in BSD or GNU/Linux with a Tiling Window Manager and Manuscripts Galore,” Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2021, Brussels, Belgium (Virtual), February 6
2020
“‘Medium tenens’: Summa Theologica III, Q. 2, A. 6 & the Transcendence of Orthodoxy,” Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, February 8
2019
“‘Puer Jesus proficiebat’: Aquinas’s Disagreement with the Damascene on the Hypostatic Union and Soteriology in Luke 2:52,” Aquinas the Biblical Theologian, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, February 9
2018
“Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity:
The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate,” The 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Pre-Dissertation Research Workshop, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May 24–26
Outstanding Student Paper Prize Recipient
“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Unione Verbi Incarnati,” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, January 25
2017
“‘Not One Iōta of the Law Will Pass’ or be Changed: St. John Damascene’s De Hymno Trisagio (Chapters 1–7) and Liturgical Orthodoxy,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, March 4
“The Holy Mass as Wholly Beautiful: Transformational Aesthetics in the Liturgical Theology of Dom Prosper Guéranger,” Lumen et Vita Fall Symposium 2016, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 10
2016
“Different Biblical Versions Show Distinct Christological Truths: St. Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah and the Servant Songs,” Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Conference 2016, Villanova University, Radnor, Pennsylvania, October 15
“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium: A Case Study in Medieval Reception of Byzantine Thought,” Florovsky Symposium 2016, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, May 7
“Tongues Can Save or Damn: St. Gregory the Great’s Fortieth Gospel Homily and the Priority of Moral Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, March 5
Service as Respondent
2017
Porcu, Zachary. “The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life: Challenging Our Hermeneutical Presuppositions via Origen’s Biblical Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, March 3
2016
Jenks, Sarah. “Typology in the Hymns of St. John of Damascus: A Case of Patristic Biblical Interpretation,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, March 5
Undergraduate
2014
“John of Damascus on the Resurrection: The Eschatology of the Last Church Father,” Theology Major Capstone, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 5 (Advsior: Rev. Fr. Steven McMichael, OFM, S.T.D.)
Invited and Media Talks
2023
“Software Freedom, BSD Unix, and the Liberal Arts: An Unconventional Conversation with
Dr. Corey Stephan,” Celts Computing Club, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, October 24
“How to Give New Life to Your Quirklogic Paypr!,” Kitt Betts-Masters, YouTube, March 16
2022
“Theology Professor and Free Software Advocate, Corey Stephan Ph.D.,” DistroTube, Odysee and YouTube, October 20
2021
“The Writing Scholar’s Guide to FreeBSD,” FreeBSD Friday, FreeBSD Foundation, YouTube, October 22
“The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD,” Chicago BSD Users Group, October 12
2017
“Roman Catholic Liturgy After Trent,” Reformations Class (RS 423), Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, November 28. Instructor of Record: Jill Kirby, Ph.D.
Teaching Experience
University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
The Return to God
Developer & Instructor of Record
Fall 2024, Fall 2022
Introduction to Classical Greek II
Instructor of Record
Spring 2023
Faith, Reason, & Revelation
Instructor of Record
Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Methods of Inquiry: Tolkien
Breakout Leader
Spring 2022
Methods of Inquiry: Creativity
Breakout Leader
Fall 2021
Academic Service
2024-2026
Digital Humanities Committee, North American Patristics Society
2023
Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 2023 Conference
Title V Grant Ambassador, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
2012-2015
President, Theology Club, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Other Professional Experience
2021
Teaching Assistant to Mark Johnson, Ph.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2020
Teaching Assistant to Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Ph.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Teaching Assistant to Rev. Julian Hills, Th.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2019
Teaching Assistant to Rev. Fr. Joseph Ogbonnaya, Ph.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, Ohio
2018
Teaching Assistant to Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Ph.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, Ohio
2017
Teaching Assistant to Alexandré Martins, Ph.D., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015–2016
Research Assistant to Fr. Brian Dunkle, S.J., Ph.D, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
2013-2016
Teacher, Train Your Brain Youth Summer Enrichment Program, Marshall School, Duluth, Minnesota
2013–2015
Tutor, Theology Department, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Ministry
2023- : Lector, St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Houston, Texas
2014–2015: Volunteer Chair, Liturgical Choir, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
2013–2015: Singer, Schola Cantorum, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
2011–2015: Singer, Liturgical Choir, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
2010–2012: Junior Counselor, Camp Survive, Diocese of Duluth, Virginia, Minnesota
2006–2011: Lector, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, Duluth, Minnesota
Language Skills
Greek
Classical, Koine, and Byzantine
Advanced reading
Latin
Classical, Medieval, and Ecclesial
Advanced reading; some writing and speaking
Spanish
Advanced reading, writing, and speaking
German
Advanced reading
Harvard Divinity School’s German Reading Exam, High Pass, May 2017
French
Intermediate reading
Italian
Intermediate reading
Syriac
Elementary reading
Select Technical Skills
GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD operating systems
Cybersecurity and networking
typesetting language
Amateur Radio, FCC vanity callsign N7CJS
Professional Memberships
North American Patristics Society (NAPS), 2017-
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2017-
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2021-