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Thane Naberhaus, Ph.D., is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He earned a B.A. from Rice University in 1989, an M.A. from the University of Memphis in 1994, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 2004, with his dissertation titled The Problem of Transcendence in Husserl's Early Philosophy. Naberhaus arrived at Mount St. Mary's in 2004 as a Visiting Assistant Professor from Georgetown University and transitioned to full faculty status in 2005. In addition to his teaching and research, he serves on the Faculty Advising Committee for the Office of Competitive Fellowships, where he has supported students in securing prestigious awards such as Goldwater Scholarships, Fulbright fellowships, and semi-finalist status for the Marshall Scholarship.

Naberhaus's scholarly interests center on the nature of truth and knowledge, with areas of study including phenomenology, existentialism, and transcendental philosophy. As a specialist in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, he co-translated with Sebastian Luft First Philosophy: Lectures 1923/24 and Related Texts from the Manuscripts (1920-1925), published in 2019 as volume 14 in the Husserliana: Collected Works series by Springer. This edition provides the first complete English translation of Husserl's systematic lecture course on the history of philosophy and transcendental phenomenology, referencing figures from Socrates and Plato to Descartes and Kant. The translation project received funding from a substantial National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Naberhaus also published a book review of Systematik und Methodologie der Phänomenologie in Husserl und Fink in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2004). At Mount St. Mary's, he teaches core philosophy courses, electives in contemporary philosophy, and the university's interdisciplinary freshmen core courses, emphasizing an integrated approach to liberal arts education.