Dr. Brandon Dahm

Brandon Dahm is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Iowa State University in 2005 and his M.A. in philosophy from Southern Evangelical Seminary in 2011. During his M.A., he took a year off to read St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theolgiae at the University of Cambridge. He then, finally, finished his degrees in 2016 with his PhD from Baylor University. Dr. Dahm wrote his dissertation under Thomas Hibbs on how we can have positive knowledge of a transcendent God. His research is primarily on Aquinas’s moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the nature of virtue and vice. Recently, he has been working on connections between psychology, virtue, and trauma. In addition to teaching and writing, Dr. Dahm directs the MA in Philosophy and co-hosts the podcast Published at Franciscan.

Dr. Dahm is married to his wife, Andrea, a graphic designer and illustrator, and has three daughters, Beatrice, Esther, and Lucy who don’t have jobs yet. In addition to doing philosophy, Dr. Dahm loves to cook, have friends over, watch movies, and is an unrepentant coffee snob. In 2013, Brandon and Andrea became Catholic (the long version is told in Evangelical Exodus) and are very happy to be a part of Franciscan University.