CV

Copy of my CV is available upon request.

Areas of Specialization

Ethical Theory, Bioethics, Kantian Ethics

Areas of Competence

Social and Political Philosophy

Areas of Teaching Interest

Contemporary Moral Issues, Philosophy of the Family

Academic Employment

University of Kentucky, Philosophy Department
Assistant Professor, 2019

Harvard University, Philosophy Department
College Fellow, 2018-2019

Stanford University, McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society and the Center for Biomedical Ethics
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018

Education

University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
PhD in Philosophy

Dissertation: Choosing Our Children: Role Obligations and the Morality of Reproductive Selection
Chair: Barbara Herman
Committee: A.J. Julius, John Carriero, Robert Goldstein

University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
MA in Philosophy

University of Wisconsin Madison, 2007
BA in Philosophy, French

 Publications

“A Non-Solution to the Non-Identity Problem,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (forthcoming)

“Parental Labor as Cooperative Labor,” Journal of Applied Philosophy (forthcoming)

“Reading Together: Using Perusall to Help Students Engage with Readings,” in Innovations in Teaching Philosophy, edited by Brynn Welch, Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming

“Ethics for Everyday Life: Designing a Core Philosophy Course,” in The Art of Teaching Philosophy: Reflective Values and Concrete Practices, edited by Brynn Welch, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp. 69–76.

“It’s Complicated: What our attitudes toward pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage tell us about the moral status of early fetuses,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50, no. 8, (2020): 950-965

“Wronging Future Children,” Ergo: An Open Access Journal Of Philosophy 6, no. 5, (2019): 119-41

“The Problem of Choosing (For) Our Children” in Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues, Routledge (2017)

Selected Presentations

“Acting for Two? Why a pregnant person’s obligations to the fetus are akin to duties to the self,” invited keynote address for Western Kentucky University’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Spring 2025)

“Happily Ever After? What philosophy can tell us about getting married and having kids,” Meet a
Philosopher Series, University of Kentucky (Fall 2022)

Invited commenter on Brookes Brown’s “Fair Play and Its Critics Reconsidered” at the Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference (Fall 2024)

Invited commenter on Sean Aas’ “Rights in Bodies, Rights in Minds?” at the NYU Bioethics Conference (Spring 2024)

“Parental Labor as Cooperative Labor,” invited paper workshop at University of Wisconsin Madison (Fall 2022)

“Parental Labor as Cooperative Labor,” invited contribution at the Manchester Political Theory Conference (Fall 2022)

“It’s Complicated: What our attitudes toward pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage tell us about the moral status of early fetuses,” Colloquium talk at Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Kentucky (Spring 2021)

 “On Kant’s Right to a Person Akin to a Thing,” The Nature of Rights Revisited: Philosophical, Legal, and Political Implications, Stanford University (Spring 2018)

Invited commentator for Paula Casal and Andrew Williams’ “Asymmetric Procreative Justice: A defense,” Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University (Spring 2018)

“The Practical Standpoint on Procreation,” NYU Center for Bioethics (Winter 2018)

“Kant’s Practical Standpoint and Procreative Morality,” Group Session, APA Central Division Meeting (Winter 2018)

“The Practical Standpoint on Procreation,” Children and Youth in Ethics and Politics Workshop, Stanford Center for Ethics (Winter 2018)

“Procreation and Relational Wrongs,” Bioethics Workshop, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (Summer 2017)

“Wronging Future Children,” The Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University (Fall 2016)

“Overstepping Parental Authority: Enhancement and the Value of Autonomy,” Atlantic Regional Philosophers’ Association Annual Conference (Fall 2016)

“The Problem of Choosing (For) Our Children,” From Procreative Ethics to Parental Rights, a Spencer Foundation Conference (Winter 2015)

“Kantian Ethics and Permissible Procreation,” UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics (Winter 2013)

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky (2019-present)

Ethics 
Morality and Society 
The Ethics of a Human Life 
Business Ethics 
Individual & Society
Food Ethics 
The Problem of Procreation, grad seminar 
Stranger Danger? Relational Obligations, grad seminar
Placement & Professionalization, grad seminar

Lecturer, Harvard University, 2018-2019

Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy (Fall 2018)
The Ethics of a Human Life (Spring 2019)
Reproductive Ethics: Whose body is it anyway? (Spring 2019, proseminar)

Lecturer, Stanford University, Hope House, a halfway house for women coming out of substance abuse programs, 2018

The Ethics of a Human Life, with Willie Costello (Spring 2018)

Lecturer, Stanford University, Humanities Center, a program for local high school students, 2017

Topics in Applied Ethics, with Willie Costello and Blake Francis (Spring 2017)

Lecturer, UCLA Philosophy Department,  2013-2014

History of Ancient Philosophy  (Summer 2016)
Teaching Assistant Training Course (Fall 2014)
Introduction to Ethics (Summer 2014)
Medical Ethics (Summer 2013)