Faculty and Staff

B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology (double major), certificate in Ancient Greek, Phi Beta Kappa, St. Louis University
M.A. in Philosophy, Fordham University
Ph.D in Philosophy, Fordham University

Education

Ph.D. Duquesne,
M.T.S. Holy Cross School of Theology,
B.A. New York University

Stephen Meawad is associate professor of Theology at Caldwell University in New Jersey. His book, Beyond Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Ethic of Ancient Spiritual Struggle (Georgetown University Press, 2023), offers a critique of modern moral philosophy and suggests a way forward by looking backward at ancient Christian spiritual practices, many of which are embodied in contemporary Orthodox Christianity. His continued research focuses on spirituality, ethics, and theology, with the hopes of recovering the lost art of transformative Christian praxis for the modern world.

George Abaunza, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Ph.D., Florida State University, Philosophy
M.A., Florida State University, Philosophy
B.A., Florida International University, Philosophy

Dr. Abaunza has a career of serving Catholic higher education institutions with service as the Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the College at Mount Saint Mary College, a sister Dominican University, where he worked with their faculty, staff, deans, and Board. When Vice President Abaunza was at the College, he served as the MSCHE Liaison, helped them develop ten new programs, the Desmond Center for Community Engagement & Wellness, and successfully led the development of early-admissions and dual enrollment programs.

Before his service at Mount Saint Mary, he was the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Felician University, with service as interim dean of Education, associate dean, and department chair over twenty years at that institution. Dr. Abaunza holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from Florida State University and earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Florida International University. He also has successfully led grant writing and execution, including National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities projects. He has extensive successful teaching experience over the past thirty years and was awarded a Faculty Excellence Award at Felician. His published research and conference work is extensive and broad-ranging. He has been honored by Kappa Delta Pi and Sigma Theta Tau and presented with the Jelani Tree Humanitarian Award.

I’ve been teaching philosophy at Caldwell since 2014. Before that, I spent many years working as an executive in the publishing industry. I have a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and am the author of Numbers in Presence and Absence: A Study of Husserl’s Philosophy of Mathematics (Martinus Nijhoff, 1982).