Brief CV

Academic Appointments

UC Berkeley, 2016-present

Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), 2023-present

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2016-2023

Affiliated Faculty, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, 2018-present

Affiliated Faculty, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, 2023-present

Georgetown University, 2015-2016

Assistant Professor of Philosophy 

New York University, 2013-2015

Bersoff Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow (a postdoc position)

Education

Princeton University, 2008-2013 

Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2013

École Normale Supérieure (Paris), 2011-2012 

Stanford University

M.A. in Philosophy, conferred 2007

B.A. in Philosophy (with honors and distinction) and coterminal M.A. in Intellectual and Cultural History, 2005 

Gunnison Watershed RE1J School District, Gunnison, Colorado

Area of Specialization

Early Modern Philosophy (including Kant) 

Areas of Competence

Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Ancient Philosophy

Research Languages

French, German, Latin, Early Modern Dutch, Italian

Recent Fellowships and Awards 

UC Berkeley Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, summer 2020

External Faculty Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, 2019-2020

Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2019-2020 (declined)

UC Berkeley Humanities Research Fellowship, fall 2019

NEH Summer Institute ("Philosophy from 1300-1700"), 2015

Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 2012-2013 

ENS-Princeton Fellowship, 2011-2012 

Bayard Henry, Class of 1876, Prize Fellowship, 2009-2010 

Perkins Prize, Princeton Philosophy Department, 2008 

Princeton University Travel Grant (5x) 

Other Work Experience

Law Clerk, criminal defense firm in Palo Alto, 2007-2008 

Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist, Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center, 2005-2006

Research Assistant, Stanford Center for Conservation Biology, 2001-2004 

TA and RA, EPGY Summer Institute, summer 2003

Research Assistant, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, summer 2001