Education
City University of New York, Graduate Center (2020–2021)
MA, University of Chicago (2016)
BA, St. John’s College (2011)
Biography
Academic Interests
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
- Post Kantian European Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein)
- Asian Philosophy (esp. Buddhist Philosophy)
Publications
- “The Comstock Apparatus” in M. Canaday, N. Cott, and R. Self (eds.): Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History. The University of Chicago Press (2021). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier and Whitney Strub.
- “Review: Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge by Jeffrey Escoffier.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2021).
- “The End of the Downtown Scene: Review of I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going by Peter McGough.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2020). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.
- “Desire & Documentary in the Photography of Alvin Baltrop.” CUNY Graduate Center: Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019).
- “Rough Paradise: Sex, Art, and Economic Crisis on the NYC Waterfront.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.
- “Art’s Great Good Place? Warhol’s Silver Factory and Its Legacy.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2019).
- “Cutting Up the City in Crisis: Gordon Matta-Clark and Urban Commons.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018).
- “Relics of the Underground: The Afterlife of Cultural Spaces.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018).
- “Cracks in the Pre-Invented World: Disaster, Art, and the Sublime in New York, 1970 to 1992.” CUNY Graduate Center: The Gotham Center for NYC History Blog (2018). Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier.
Presentations
- “Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics." Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), University of Salzburg, Austria (September 2023).
- “Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics.” Third Annual Philosophy in the Wild Conference (University of Pennsylvania), Poe Paddy State Park, Pennsylvania (July 2023).
- “Lucky By Nature? Aristotle on Luck and Political Science.” Southern Political Science Association’s 2023 Summer Conference (June 2023)
- “Rethinking Heidegger on Rationality.” Graduate Student Research Series, Tulane University Department of Philosophy, New Orleans (March 2023).
- “After the Land Ethic: Moral Vision and Environmental Ethics.” Tulane University Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit, New Orleans (Spring 2023). Accepted yet unable to attend.
- “Beyond the Priory: Everyday Spiritual Spaces.” Tulane University Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit, New Orleans (Spring 2023). Accepted yet unable to attend. Co-written with Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty (Tulane University, School of Architecture).
- “Wittgenstein & Heidegger on Ethical Knowledge.” Eastern APA, Montreal (Spring 2023).
- “Writing an Undergraduate Philosophy Paper.” Invited lecture for Karl Schmid’s Buddhist Philosophy course, Tulane University, New Orleans (Fall 2022).
- “Buddhist Moral Phenomenology’s Epistemological Worry: Dinnāga & Dharmakīrti on Conceptual Distortion.” Gonzaga University Graduate Philosophy Conference, Gonzaga University, Spokane (Spring 2022).
- Comment on Jerome Romagosa’s “Representational Deflationsism: Eliminativism or Anti-Naturalism?” New Orleans Philosophical Society’s Graduate Student Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans (Spring 2022).
- “The Construction of Space: Crisis Urbanism, Architecture, and Alternative ‘Conceptions of the Good.’” Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium, (2020, accepted yet postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19). With Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty (Tulane School of Architecture).
- “Beyond Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs: New York City’s 1970s Economic Crisis and the Anarchitecture of Gordon Matta-Clark.” Social Science History Association, Annual Conference, Chicago (2019).
- “An Economics of Historical Discontinuity.” Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (STOREP), Università di Siena, Siena (2019).
- “Cutting Up the City: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Urban Commons.” Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Lisbon Polytechnic University, Lisbon (2019).
- “Can We Design Culture? A Theoretical Account of Interventions into Cultural Processes.” Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg (2019).
- “Justifying the Urban: Philosophical Foundations of Urban Economics.” University of Southern California, Institute for New Economic Thinking/YSI, Los Angeles (2019).
- “Economy of the Closet: Creation and Mechanisms of the Market for Brazilian Public Sex.” Invited lecture in Christopher Mitchell’s Global LGBT History course, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York (2018).
Awards
- Adam Smith Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University (2022–present)
- Tulane University Fellowship (2021–present
- Universität Hamburg Philosophie Sommerkurs Tuition Grant (2020)
- Institute for New Economic Thinking / Young Scholars Initiative Travel Grant (awarded twice in 2019).
- University of Chicago, MAPH Research Travel Grant (2016).
Teaching
As Instructor of Record
- Introduction to Philoosophy: Environmental Ethics Emphasis, Tulane University (Spring 2023)
- Introduction to Philosophy, Tulane University (Fall 2022)
As Teaching Assistant
- Buddhist Philosophy, Karl Schmid (Spring 2022 & Fall 2021)
- Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, Jeffrey Escoffier (Spring 2021)
- Sexual Revolution: Freedom, Theory, and Sexual Politics, Jeffrey Escoffier (Spring 2019)
Pedagogical Training
- Tulane University Philosophy Teaching Workshop (2022 - Present)
- Essentials of Learning & Teaching, Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching (Spring 2022)
- Universal Design Learning Academy, Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching (Fall 2021)