Fr. Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P. is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) in Berkeley, CA. He grew up on the Oregon coast and converted to the Catholic Faith in high school. He studied applied physics for seven years at Caltech and UC San Diego before entering the Dominican Order in 2001. Fr. Raphael Mary was ordained a priest in 2009 and, after working in campus ministry for a few years, completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 2019. He went on to teach philosophy for four years at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, before returning to the Bay Area in 2023, to teach at the DSPT.
