About Alex

I'm currently working as a Senior Lecturer at The Ohio State University, teaching a range of social/political/ethics courses and researching issues connected to sport and to labor unions. I received my PhD in 2020 from the University of Colorado Boulder under the guidance of Alastair Norcross.

My research is focused on two important aspects of our lives and society: sport and work. This is with regards both to ontological questions – e.g. what is doping, what is a union – and normative ones – e.g. what should college athletics look like, do workers have an obligation to obey workplace commands.

As an instructor, I love teaching social, political, and applied ethics-y courses, and I attempt to bring in relevant empirical information to help students better engage with both the topics and our non-ideal world. That said, I haven't lost my early philosophical passion for more theoretical metaphysics!

Additionally, I was a founding member and honored to be the inaugural president of United Campus Workers Colorado – CWA Local 7799, the wall-to-wall union for all University of Colorado campuses, as I'm committed to doing what I can wherever I am to improve our students learning conditions (which just so happen to also be our working conditions!).

For more, please see the relevant Research, Teaching, and Service pages listed above. You can also find my CV here.