PhD
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, Emory University, 2024
. Dissertation: Levinas’s Diachronic Thought
. Director: Andrew J. Mitchell
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M.A., Philosophy, Emory University, 2021
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B.A., Philosophy, Middlebury College, 2018
. (summa cum laude with highest honors)
Visiting Fellow, Tilburg University, Feb-May 2022
Visiting Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Feb-Jun 2014
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy
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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“Levinas on Separation: Metaphysical, Semantic, Affective”
. Epoché 28, no. 2 (2024): 429-452.
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“Peirce’s Imaginative Community”
. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58, no. 1 (2022):1-21
. *Winner of the Peirce Essay Prize
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“Freedom and Praxis in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.8.1-6”
. Archai 30 (2020): e03031.
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“Teleology and Nous in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.7”
. Kriterion 61, no. 147 (2020): 609-632.
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PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS
“Reality and Its Accomplishment in Levinas”
. Metaphysical Society of America
. Emory University (Atlanta, GA), March 2025.
“The Memory of the Immemorial”
. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
. Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY), Sept. 2024.
“Two Senses of Deformalization in Levinas”
. Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas
. Emmanuel Levinas Center (Kaunas, Lithuania), July 2024.
“Levinas, Descartes, and Temporal Solipsism”
. Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Levinasianos
. Jornadas Levinasianas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), June 2024.
“Levinas on Semantic Separation”
. Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas
. Emmanuel Levinas Center (Kaunas, Lithuania), July 2023.
“The Homelessness of Eros: Levinas with Plato”
. Ancient Philosophy Society
. Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA), April 2023.
“The Alibi of Metaphysics”
. Metaphysical Society of America
. Emory University (Atlanta, GA), March 2023.
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“Ethics as the Mediation of Ontology”
. Summer Conference in Continental Ethics: Levinas
. Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), June 2022.
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“Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation”
. Metaphysical Society of America
. Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), March 2022.
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“Peirce’s Imaginative Community”
. APA Eastern Division
. C.S. Peirce Society Session (Baltimore, MD), January 2022.
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“Human Reciprocity and Divine Asymmetry”
. North American Levinas Society
. St. Michael’s College (Colchester, VT), July 2021.
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“Levinas’s Wounded Speech”
. North American Levinas Society
. Drake University (Des Moines, IA), July 2019.
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“Divine Polyvalence: God and Metaphor in Levinas and Eriugena”
. Mystical Theology Network
. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), March 2019.
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“The Epiphany of the Face: Levinas on the Ethico-Religious Attitude”
. Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy
. San Diego State University (San Diego, CA), October 2015.
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SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
- Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, 2023-2024
- Visiting Fellowship for Junior Scholars, Tilburg University, 2022
- Laney Graduate School Fellowship, Emory University, 2018-2023
- Kellogg Fellowship in the Humanities, Middlebury College, 2017
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SELECTED AWARDS
- Charles S. Peirce Society Essay Prize for original contribution on Peirce’s normative thought, 2021
- John T. Andrews Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in Philosophy, Middlebury College, 2018
- Alexandra T. and Robert L. Baker Award for excellence in Russian Language and Literature, Middlebury College, 2018
- Theodore S. Woolsey Prize for outstanding work in the study of sacred texts, Middlebury College, 2018
- Phi Beta Kappa, early induction, Middlebury College, 2017
- The Slavic National Honors Society, Middlebury College, 2017
- College Scholar, Middlebury College, 2014-2018
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TEACHING
As Instructor of Record (Augsburg University)
. Existentialism, Spring 2025 (2)
. Ethics, Fall 2024
. Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2024 (2), Spring 2025 (2)
As Instructor of Record (Emory University)
. Metaphysics: Time and Temporality, Spring 2024
. Basic Problems: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Spring 2023
. Existentialism & European Philosophy, Fall 2022
. Introduction to Ethics: The History of Responsibility, Fall 2020
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As Teaching Assistant (Emory University)
. 19th and 20th-Century Philosophy (co-teacher), Spring 2020
. Ancient Greek and Medieval Philosophy, Fall 2019
As Peer-Tutor in Philosophy (Middlebury College)
. Introduction to the Philosophical Tradition, Spring 2018
. Introduction to the Philosophical Tradition, Spring 2017
. The Philosophy of Human Rights, Fall 2016
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SERVICE
Graduate Student Representative, 2022-2023
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LANGUAGES
Portuguese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Latin
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