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David Albertson

David Albertson (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Religion at USC. He is the author of the award-winning Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford, 2014) and co-editor of Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology (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) specializes in political philosophy, the history of political thought, and the human sciences. He is the author of We Built Reality (Oxford, 2020), which received accolades from Charles Taylor and David Bentley Hart. His book with Mark Bevir, Interpretive Social Science (Oxford, 2018), provides a comprehensive guide for social scientists for avoiding scientism and affirming human agency. Blakely is a leading scholar of contemporary “communitarian” and post-liberal thought, especially the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, the subject of his first book, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor and the Demise of Naturalism (Notre Dame, 2016). In addition to academic writing, he also publishes in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Commonweal, America Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Washington Post. 

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Min Tae Cha

Min Tae Cha (PhD, Princeton) is the Nova Forum Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion and Science at the University of Southern California. He is interested in the historical relationship between religion and law, especially in issues of Church and State. His dissertation explores these themes by focusing on the interaction between ecclesiology and constitutionalism in the 19th-century British Empire and the United States. Cha is also broadly interested in liturgical studies and the history of Christianity.

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 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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Amy Cannon

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing,
USC Dornsife

Cynthia Colburn

Professor of Art History, Pepperdine

Manika Tolentino

Communications DIRECTOR

Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB

St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo

Fr. Richard Sunwoo

Pastor, Our Savior Parish

Jamie Cappetta

President, USC Caruso Catholic Center