Kimberly S. Engles, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, 2017, Marquette University

• B.A., Religion, Philosophy, Music, 2008, Luther College

Biography

Kimberly S. Engels is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Molloy University and Research Director of the John Mack Institute. Her philosophical research centers on existentialism, ethics, and phenomenology as tools for examining our lived experience. Her UAP research focuses on the lived conscious experience of people who report contact with UAP, and how such accounts engender new frameworks for our conceptions of self, other, and world. She is the author of Contact and Multidimensional Subjectivity: Towards a Phenomenology of Disclosure (College Publications, 2026).