Theology Ph.D. Students

Graduates of the Fordham Theology Department Ph.D. program enter the world with invaluable experience in research, writing, and teaching. We are proud to feature our graduates, both those currently seeking postgraduate placements and those who have secured placements.

  • Sónia da Silva Monteiro | Systematic Theology [email protected]“Forgiveness and Creation in the Face of the Unforgivable: A Philosophical, Theological, and Political Investigation”
    Bradford Hinze

    Pierre Bourgeois |Systematic Theology | [email protected] “Zapatismo: Decolonizing Liberation Theology”
    Michael Lee

    Dorothy Chang |Historical - Modern |[email protected] "A Divine and Supernatural Light”: The Neo-Platonic Newtonian Metaphor of Light in Jonathan Edwards"
    Kathyrn Reklis

    David de la Fuente | Systematic Theology | [email protected]  "A Catholic Reception of Azusa Street’s Pentecostal Fire"
    Bradford Hinze

    Claire Koen | JCIA | [email protected] "Color Symbolism and the Construction of Demonologies in the Early Egyptian Christianities: An Early Christian Technique of Identity Formation"
    Emanuel Fiano

    Erica Restaino |Bible - OT | [email protected] "Lamentations: A Communal Trauma, Narrative for the Healing of Ancient and Contemporary Survivors of Trauma and Injustice"
    Karina Martin Hogan

  • Carlton Chase | Systematic Theology | [email protected]
    "Promises from an Impossible God: Fragments of Resistance and Hope in the Later Theology of David Tracy"
    Bradford Hinze

    Robert Cortegiano | Systematic Theology | [email protected]
    "Intraecclesial Reform Movements after Vatican II: 'Futurechurch' as a Model for Discerning the Sensus Fidelium"
    Bradford Hinze

    Dave de la Fuente | Systematic Theology | [email protected]
    "A Catholic Reception of Azusa Street’s Pentecostal Fire"
    Bradford Hinze

    James Dechant | Systematic Theology | [email protected] 
    "An Ecological Education: Theological Paths to Liberative Praxis"
    Bradford Hinze

    Asher Harris | Modern Historical Theology | [email protected]
    "Crisis in the Antebellum Methodist Episcopal Church: Abolitionism, Slavery, and the Life of Nathan Bangs"
    Kathryn Reklis

    Henry Omeike | Theological and Social Ethics | [email protected]
    "Rethinking Economic Solidarity in Africa in Light of Igbo Imu-Ahia Economic Ethics"
    Christine Firer Hinze

    Jack Louis Pappas | Systematic Theology | [email protected]
    "Through Phenomenology to Theology: Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the French Theological Turn"
    Aristotle Papanikolaou

Education

B.A. Fundamentals: Issues, and Texts - University of Chicago, 2000

M.A. Systematic Theology - Fordham University, 2015

Biography

Pierre is a PhD candidate in Systematic Theology, focusing on liberation theology and decolonial studies. His primary research explores the erasure of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico from theologies of liberation, and the erasure of liberation theology as a critical influence on Zapatismo in the work of political and decolonial theorists who view the Zapatistas, in the words of Walter Mignolo, as a “theoretical revolution.” His other interests include theologies of God, ecological theology, and the mystical tradition.

Pierre was awarded the Senior Teaching Fellowship for exemplary teaching, and the Beacon Exemplar Award, conferred by Fordham University United Student Government for making a meaningful impact on students’ lives. He has presented papers at the American Academy of Religion, the Meister Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life at Albertus Magnus College, and for the Albertus Magnus College’s Justice Panel.

Pierre’s academic pursuits have taken place in between stints working on a tugboat, writing screenplays, working as a gardener, writing songs, and playing rock and roll. He lives in Wallingford, CT, with his wife Jenna, and his three children, Cruz, Pax, and Sophia.