My research explores various intersections of the themes of emotion, social interpretation, and responsibility. I also maintain an active research program on the life and writing of Hannah Arendt.
Current projects include: a monograph on open-mindedness and moral emotion; an article on localism and cosmopolitanism; an article on participatory democratic approaches to climate intervention; and an article on Husserl's self-described 'quasi-Cartesianism.'
Recent Publications
“Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2026)
“What are Hermeneutical Resources? Nondiscursive Self-Interpretation and Gendered Embodiment” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2026)
“Does Forward-Looking Responsibility Have an Accountability Problem?” Social Theory and Practice (2025)
“Towards a ‘Strong’ Normativity of Fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle.” Southern Journal of Philosophy (2025)
Recent Courses
PHIL 23207 Phenomenology and Existentialism
This course introduces students to key concepts, texts, and figures from the phenomenological tradition as it emerged and developed in Germany and France over the late-19th and 20th centuries. Students will engage with questions of intentionality, temporality, embodiment, finitude, and meaning-making. The course will pay particular attention to continuities and discontinuities between key figures. Major figures covered include Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Jean-Paul Sartre. (B)
At least one previous course in philosophy.
PHIL 23207 Phenomenology and Existentialism: Being, Subjectivity, and Worldhood in 20th-Century German and French Philosophy
This course introduces students to key concepts, texts, and figures from the phenomenological tradition as it emerged and developed in Germany and France over the late-19th and 20th centuries. Students will engage with questions of intentionality, temporality, embodiment, finitude, and meaning-making. The course will pay particular attention to continuities and discontinuities between key figures. Major figures covered include Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Jean-Paul Sartre. (B)