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David Albertson

David Albertson (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at USC. He is the author of The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure (Oxford, 2025), Cusanus Today: Thinking Between Philosophy and Theology with Nicholas of Cusa (CUA, 2024), Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford, 2014), and Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology, with Cabell King (Fordham, 2009), as well as several articles on medieval and Renaissance Christian mysticism, theology, and philosophy. Albertson’s research has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He contributes to Commonweal and America Magazine.

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Jason Blakely

Jason Blakely (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a political philosopher and Professor of Political Science. The author of widely-read books—such as We Built Reality and Lost in Ideology—his essays have also been featured in major public venues like The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine.

Writing on a broad range of topics in contemporary political theory—from ideology and scientific expertise to utopianism and religion—Blakely has been called “our finest critic of misplaced appeals to scientific authority in political life.” He has delivered talks across the United States and in Europe and his writings have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Polish.

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Fr. Luke Dysinger, O.S.B.

Father Luke Dysinger, O.S.B. (PhD, Oxford University; MD, USC) is Professor of Church History and Moral Theology at St. John’s Seminary. After studying medicine at USC, he joined the Benedictine community of Saint Andrew’s Abbey. A patristics scholar, Fr. Dysinger is the author of Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus (Oxford, 2005), and a co-translator of Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy (Oxford, 2023) and also teaches on moral theology and biomedical ethics in different venues. He is a fellow of the Loyola Marymount Bioethics Institute and chairman of the Bioethics Committee at the Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he serves on the medical staff.

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Stefano Rebeggiani

Stefano Rebeggiani (PhD, La Sapienza, Rome) is Associate Professor of Classics at USC. After studies in Rome, Pisa, and Cambridge University he held a position at NYU before arriving at USC. Rebeggiani studies Roman literature and culture, particularly epic poetry in imperial Rome, as well as Roman art and archaeology. In addition to articles on Statius, Virgil, and Lucretius, he is the author of The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the Thebaid (Oxford, 2018). His next project will study Virgil’s Aeneid and its interaction with the history of the Roman Republic.

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Brian Treanor

Brian Treanor (PhD, Boston College) is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, with affiliate appointments in Environmental Studies and Irish Studies. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Melancholic Joy (Bloomsbury 2021), Philosophy in the American West (Routledge 2020), Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham 2015), Emplotting Virtue (SUNY 2014), Interpreting Nature (Fordham 2013), and Aspects of Alterity (Fordham 2006). He is currently writing a book for a general audience on the meaning and experience of “nature” and “wilderness,” as well as his Substack newsletter, Wild Life.

Marc Aubertin

Senior lecturer of engineering writing, University of Southern California

Suzanne Bohlson

Professor of Teaching & Director of the Masters of science in biotechnology program, university of California, irvine

Kevin Brennan

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s Seminary

Cynthia Colburn

Professor of art history, Pepperdine University

Paul Contino

Distinguished professor of Great Books, Pepperdine university

Roberto Dell’Oro

Professor of Theological Studies & Director of The Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University

Joanna Demers

Associate Dean & Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California

Marcela García-Romero

Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

Verónica Gutiérrez

Professor of History, Hildegard College

Christopher Kaczor

Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

Catherine Peters

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

Nancy Pineda-Madrid

President, Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) & Professor and T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology, Loyola Marymount University

Julia Plotts

Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California

Elizabeth Reichert

Academic Dean & Associate Professor of Moral Theology, St. John’s Seminary

Scott Roniger

Associate professor of philosophy, loyola marymount university

Jennifer Smith

Associate Provost & Associate Professor of English, Pepperdine University

Patrick Whelan

Associate clinical professor of pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Wood

President of the Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies, University of Southern California

Manika Tolentino

Communications DIRECTOR

Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB

St. John’s Seminary

Fr. Matthew Wheeler

Pastor, USC Caruso Catholic Center & Our Savior Parish

David Albertson

ex officio