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Research Interests
Education Policy and Political (esp. Democratic) Theory
Philosophy of Education
Methodology and Philosophy of Social Science
Civic Studies
Service-Learning and Leadership Education
Awards
Outstanding Doctoral Graduate, CU Boulder School of Education
Engaged Scholarship Grant, Campus Compact of the Mountain West
Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) Grant, CU Boulder
The Stahl Prize in Ethics, Department of Philosophy, CU Boulder
Ernest A. Bigelow Award (Beverly Sears Named Graduate Student Research Grant), Graduate School, CU Boulder
In my current role as director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Office for Outreach and Engagement, I provide leadership and support for outreach and community engagement initiatives throughout Colorado and beyond. In this work I draw upon my prior experience developing curriculum, coordinating service-learning offerings, and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses.
My scholarly work builds upon my graduate-level training in the fields of philosophy and psychology and addresses issues of education policy and practice. Democratic values and their implications are at the core of my ongoing research, alongside theoretical and methodological questions related to university-community partnerships and the design and evaluation of publicly engaged teaching, research, and creative work.
I believe that those whose official business is the creation, conveyance, and critique of ideas can and should contribute to the betterment of individual lives as well as to the ongoing project of creating a more just and sustainable world. The work of such intellectuals can benefit greatly from collaboration and dialogue with constituencies beyond the boundaries of campus and discipline.
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