Current Graduate Students

Ph.D. Students:

James Barham (B.A., Classics, University of Texas, 1972; M.A., History of Science, Harvard
     University, 1976)
     Dissertation: "The Function Debate and the Place of Telology in Biology."
     (Advisor: Phillip Sloan)
     James.A.Barham.1@nd.edu

Sean Boocock (B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, Georgetown University, 2008)
     Sean.T.Boocock.1@nd.edu

John Cirilli (B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2005;
     B.A. History, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2007)
     John.S.Cirilli.2@nd.edu

Elise Crull (B.Sc., Physics, Calvin College, 2005 )
     Dissertation: "Quantum Decoherence and Interlevel Relations"
     (Advisor: Don Howard)
     Elise.M.Crull.1@nd.edu

Jorge Escobar Ortiz (B.A., Philosophy, Universidad de Antioquia Medellin, 2003;
     M.A., Philosophy, University of Manitoba, 2006)
     Jorge.M.EscobarOrtiz.1@nd.edu

Manuela Fernández Pinto (B.A., Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
     Bogotá, 2006)
     Manuela.FernandezPinto.1@nd.edu

Kara Fromke (B.Sc., Mathematics, Wheaton College, 1993; M.Sc., Education, University
     of St. Thomas, 1998; M.A., History, University of Tennessee, 2007)
     Kara.L.Fromke.1@nd.edu

Yvonne Gaspar (B.A., Art History and Dance, University of California-San Diego, 2005)
     Dissertation: "Varieties of Analogy in Early Eighteenth-Century Plant Sciences:
     Richard Bradley’s Comparative Method"
     (Advisor: Robert Goulding)
     Yvonne.A.Gaspar.2@nd.edu

Naomi Luce (B.Sc., Physics, Biola College, 2005; M.Sc., Physics, University of
     California-Davis,2007)
     Naomi.V.Luce.8@nd.edu

Gregory Macklem (B.Sc., Mathematics and Biology, University of Michigan, 1993)
     Gregory.L.Macklem.1@nd.edu

Lee Mayo (B.A., Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy, David Lipscomb
     University, 1999; M.A., Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 2002)
     Dissertation: "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Experimental Use of Monte Carlo
     Computer Simulations in Science."
     (Advisor: Don Howard)
     Lee.Mayo.5@nd.edu

Richard Oosterhoff ( B.S., Biology and Religion and Theology, Redeemer
     University College, Ancaster, Ontario, 2005)
     Richard.J.Oosterhoff.3@nd.edu

Charles Pence (B.A., Philosophy, Princeton University, 2007 )
     Charles.H.Pence.3@nd.edu

Erik Lars Peterson (B.A., Archaeology, College of Wooster, 1997; M.A., Anthropology,
     Ohio State University, 1999)
     Dissertation: "Holism and Evolution in Biology and Anthropology: the Challenge
     of Gregory Bateson and C. H. Waddington to Biological Orthodoxy, 1924-1980"
     (Advisor: Phillip Sloan)
     Erik.Peterson.89@nd.edu

Christina Turner (B.Sc., Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2003)
    Christina.M.Turner.96@nd.edu

Holly Vande Wall (B.A., Chemistry and Religious Studies, Macalester College,
     1997; M.A., Science Journalism, Boston University, 2000; M.A., Ethics and
     Science, Pacific School of Religion, 2002)
     Dissertation: "Philosophical Assumptions in U.S. Environmental and Public
     Health Policy: A Case Study of the Clean Water Act"
     (Advisor: Vaughn McKim)
     Holly.VandeWall.1@nd.edu

Jessica Weaver (B.A., Anthropology, University at Buffalo, 2002; M.A., Humanities
     University at Buffalo, 2004)
     Dissertation: "Reforming the Raj: Florence Nightingale's Biomedical Liberalism
     in British India"
     (Advisor: Christopher Hamlin)
     Jessica.L.Weaver.44@nd.edu

Elizabeth Webster (B.A., History and Religious Studies, University of California
     Riverside, 1998)
     Dissertation: "'Men of Real Science': Politics and the Authorities of Natural
     Knowledge in the Early American Republic, 1780-1837."
     (Advisor: Christopher Hamlin)
     Elizabeth.E.Hayes.39@nd.edu