Employment
2024
Assistant Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-2024
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division
The University of Chicago
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy
September 2020
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dissertation: "Freedom, Equality, and Markets in Eighteenth Century Philosophy" Advisor: Omar Dahbour
Committee: Linda M. Alcoff, Michael Menser, Catherine Wilson
M.A. Philosophy
September 2013
The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A. Honors in English, Summa Cum Laude
Minors: Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Power
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
May 2007
Areas of Specialization
Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (18th century/Late Modern)
Areas of Competence
Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Publications
Journal Articles:
"Adam Smith and Richard Price on a Free Society of Equals," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.23
Book Chapters:
“Kant’s Commercial Republicanism.” In Rethinking Kant: Volume 6, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Book Reviews:
Review of Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) in Radical Philosophy Review (Fall 2018).
Fellowships
Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2017-2020
The Graduate Center, CUNY Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2014-2017
Presentations & Conference Participation
Comments for “Marx and Philosophy” Symposium, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, NY, NY (Winter 2025)
Panel Participant “Whose Land, Whose Theory, and Whose Policy,” EthicsLab Conference, Yauondé, Cameroon (Summer 2024)
“Rematerializing Property in Contemporary Theories of Property-Owning Democracy,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Spring 2024)
“Property-Owning Democracy and the Environment,” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans (Fall 2023).
“Recovering the Case for Common Property and Republican Freedom,” Wharton-Groningen PPE Workshop, Groningen, Netherlands (Fall 2023).
“Property-Owning Democracy and Environmental Sustainability,” Ecological Integrity, Earth Systems, & The Crisis of Democracy, 31st Annual International Conference of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, Potsdam, Germany (Summer 2023)
“Richard Price on Property and Nondomination,” Richard Price Tercentenary Conference, Cardiff University, Wales (Summer 2023) Invited Speaker
Comments on Simone Gubler’s “A Decent Living: Making the Case for the Minimum Wage,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Montreal, Canada (Winter 2023)
"Rethinking the Meaning of Property in Contemporary Theories of Property-Owning Democracy," 12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, Center for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (Summer 2022)
"Republicanism Against the Free Market: Richard Price and the Agrarian Tradition," Society of Fellows Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Winter 2022)
Comments on Christopher Bousquet's "Work and Social Alienation," APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD (Winter 2022)
"Adam Smith on a Free Society of Equals," The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE), New Orleans, LA (Winter 2022)
"Adam Smith on a Free Society of Equals," The Political Theory Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Winter 2021)
“Adam Smith’s Laissez-Faire Republicanism,” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE Society), New Orleans, LA (Spring 2020) (Unable to attend due to covid-related travel restrictions at my university)
Session Chair, “Social and Political Philosophy,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Winter 2020)
“Kant’s Republican Defense of the Free Market,” 15th Annual Meeting Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society (ENAKS), Brandeis University (Spring 2019)
Comments on Yi Deng’s “Kant’s Federalism of Free States: A Contractual View,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York, NY (Winter 2019)
“A Brief History: Anti-Imperialism and Free Trade,” The Radical Philosophy Association Conference,The University of Kentucky (Fall 2016)
“Kant on Free Trade: For or Against?” The Loyola Philosophy Graduate Conference, Loyola University (Fall 2016)
“Rethinking Materialist Feminism: Reflections on Class, Gender, and Materiality,”
The New York Society for Women in Philosophy Workshop, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Summer 2013)
“Historical vs. Cultural Materialisms in Contemporary Feminist Debate,” Historical Materialism, New York Conference, New York University (Spring 2013)
Teaching Experience
2023 Economic Justice and the Environment
Primary Instructor
The University of Chicago
2020-23 Power, Identity, and Resistance I-III
Primary Instructor
The University of Chicago
2020 Introduction to Ethics and Moral Judgement
Primary Instructor
Hunter College, CUNY
2019 Feminist Philosophy
Primary Instructor
Hunter College, CUNY
2018 Problems of Ethics & Society
Primary Instructor
Hunter College, CUNY
2016-20 Political Philosophy (5x)
Primary Instructor
Hunter College, CUNY
2016 Texts & Ideas: Life and Death
Teaching Assistant to David Velleman
New York University
2015-19 Philosophy, Politics, Society (6x)
Primary Instructor
Hunter College, CUNY
Professional Service
2024 Co-Organizer Annual Conference for Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU), “Past and Future Commons,” The University of Chicago
2023 Referee, Highlights of Sustainability Journal
2023 Weissbourd Conference Organizer, “Ethics and Nature in a Time of Crisis” The University of Chicago, Society of Fellows
2022 Reviewer, Journal of Social Philosophy
2021-Present International Social Ontology Member
2020-Present Philosophy, Politics, Economics Society Member
2018-Present American Philosophical Association Member
2016-2017 Doctoral Student Council, Philosophy Department Representative, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2014-2018 Co-Organizer, CUNY Social and Political Philosophy Workshop
2013 Co-Organizer, Historical Materialism Conference, NYU
Graduate Coursework
The Graduate Center M.A. - Ph.D. * indicates audited courses
Fall 2019 Environmental Philosophy, Dahbour*
Fall 2016 Ecology & Political Theory, Dahbour*
Fall 2015 Kant’s Ethics & Politics, Schwarzenbach*
Spring 2015 Augustine’s Confessions, Grover
Spring 2015 The Nature of Law, Chopra
Spring 2015 Philosophy of Race, Alcoff & Kirkland
Fall 2014 Political Theory of Capitalism, Robin*
Fall 2014 Science & Metaphysics from Descartes to Kant, Wilson
Fall 2014 Cosmopolitanism & Sovereignty, Dahbour
Spring 2013 Philosophy of History, Dahbour & Carroll
Spring 2013 Social Ontology, Gould
Fall 2012 American Pragmatism, Godfrey-Smith
Fall 2012 Foucault, Biopolitics, & the Security State, Alcoff
Spring 2012 Nietzsche & Contemporary Philosophy, Acampora
Spring 2012 Philosophy of Science, Cordero
Fall 2011 Feminist Philosophy, Schwarzenbach
Fall 2011 Hegelian Ethics, Dahbour
Spring 2011 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Nuzzo
Fall 2010 20th Century Continental Epistemology, Alcoff