2024- Associate Director, Office of Faculty Development, Rice University, Houston 2020-2023 Director, University Honors Program, Loyola University New Orleans. 2018-2023 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans. 2011-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans. 2008-2011 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy. University of Toronto. M.A. in Philosophy. Boston College. B.A. in Philosophy, Minor in German. Calvin College.
Areas of Specialization: Ethics, Political Philosophy.
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics.
Publications (Refereed)
"Security and Prisons," forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Commodification. “Social Justice and the Distribution of Republican Freedom,” European Journal of Political Theory, 19 (2020): 67-86. “Legal Moralism, Interests, and Preferences: Alexander on Aesthetic Regulation,” Philosophia 43 (2015): 485-498. “Lockean Property and Literary Works,” Legal Theory 14 (2008): 257-280. “Enlightenment and Freedom,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008): 223-44.
Articles in Progress
"Title Redacted for Blind Review." "Epistemic Duties and the Right to Resist Injustice"
Teaching
Loyola University New Orleans Honors Ethics, Ignatian Colloquium, Human Nature, Making Moral Decisions, Philosophy of Immigration Law, Social and Political Philosophy, Modern Political Thought, Ethics, Philosophy of the Human Person, Introduction to Philosophy, Law and Morality, Philosophy of Law, Honors Seminar: Freedom, Rights and the State of Nature, Philosophy Senior Seminar: The Political Philosophy of John Rawls.
University of Toronto Contemporary Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Human Nature, Freedom and Determinism, Introduction to Philosophy, Contemporary Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Research: Preparing, Presenting and Revising Philosophical Scholarship, Philosophy of Human Sexuality, Law and Morality, Political Philosophy: The Modern Period, Practical Reason and Human Action.
Selected Professional Service
Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, Loyola University New Orleans 2018-2023. Chair, University Senate, Loyola University New Orleans, May 2021-Aug. 2022, May 2018 - Dec. 2019.