I am Assistant Director of the Center for AI and the Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Mary Washington, where I have taught since 2015. My work is in social and political philosophy, twentieth-century European philosophy, and critical social theory, and more recently in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
Contact
Department of Cultural & Philosophical Inquiry
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Areas of Specialization
Specialization. Social and political philosophy, twentieth-century European philosophy, critical social theory.
Competence. Philosophy of technology, AI and philosophy, environmental philosophy, ethics both theoretical and applied, aesthetics, nineteenth-century European philosophy. Reading competence in German.
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy — Michigan State University Dissertation: “Adorno and the Possibility of Practical Reason.” Chair: Richard T. Peterson 2011
- M.A., Philosophy — Michigan State University Thesis: “Between Violence and Power: Toward an Arendtian Notion of Structural Violence” 2001
- B.S., Philosophy and English — Illinois State University Minor in Women’s Studies 1999
Positions
- Assistant Director, Center for AI and the Liberal Arts University of Mary Washington 2026–
- Senior Lecturer of Philosophy University of Mary Washington 2023–
- Lecturer University of Mary Washington 2018–2023
- Visiting Assistant Professor University of Mary Washington 2015–2018
- Visiting Assistant Professor Western Kentucky University 2014–2015
- Instructor Central Michigan University, Department of Art and Design 2011–2012
- Instructor Lansing Community College 2010–2014
- Visiting Assistant Professor Michigan State University 2009–2014
- Instructor Eastern Michigan University 2009–2010
- Visiting Instructor (full time) Grand Valley State University 2006–2009
- Instructor Michigan State University 2004–2006