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I serve as Associate Provost for Research, Grants, and Academic Initiatives, and Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, at Mercy College in New York.

Before joining Mercy College, I was Associate Provost and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College (2009-2010), Director of Fellowship Programs of the American Council of Learned Societies (2005-2009), and program officer at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1998-2005). I received an AB in political science and philosophy from Columbia University, MA in philosophy from Rice University, and a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate School, and studied at the CNRS in Paris on a Fulbright award. I am a past President of HOPOS, the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, past member of the American Philosophical Association Committees on Non-Academic Careers and on the Status and Future of the Profession; and current Vice-Chair of the Diversity Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics.

This site is focused on my research interests in philosophical foundations of conceptual issues in architecture; other interests range over philosophy of science (with particular focus on biology, ecology, and the social sciences) and metaphysics. A number of interests come together in my work on types and tokens.

You can get a more complete picture on my CV or contact me by email.