I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. My work in the history of philosophy focuses on the Graeco-Roman as well as Islamo-Arabic traditions. My current research focuses on questions of “nature” and its mutations. I am completing a book on the history of appeals to nature as a source of normative authority, tentatively entitled The Ethics of Nature, under contract with Oxford University Press. 

Outside of the history of philosophy, I write about social and political philosophy, including questions of racial justice and inequality as well as feminism. I also write essays and criticism for non-academic publications, as well as poetry and fiction—see here for more.

I received my PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2020. In 2019-20, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics.

Articles

• “Aristotle in Love,” Ancient Philosophy, forthcoming. (Advance PDF)

• “Aristotle in Egypt,” in Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle, eds. Patricia Marechal and John Prois. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. (Advance PDF)

• “Ibn Sina, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Λ 6-10,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2025.

• "Just Kidding," in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities From Feminism to Trans*,  eds. Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler. Routledge, 2023.

• “Aristotle on Comparison,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2022.

• “Introduction” and “Foreground and Background” in Racial Inequality During a Pandemic, C4E @ UofT Ethics in Context,  2020.

• “Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration,“ British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2019.

• “Four Types of Racism,” in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and the US, Oxford University Press, 2018. 

In progress

• The Ethics of Nature, on the history of appeals to nature as source of normative authority, under contract with Oxford University Press. (Anticipated for completion summer 2026)

• Papers under review on divine love in Ibn Sina; Ibn Sina's account of pleasure; the politics of modern scholarship on Islamic philosophy and “mysticism”; the possibility of immorality in non-human animals

• A translation and critical edition of Ibn Sina's poem al-Jumāna al-Ilāhiyya (“the Divine Pearl”)

Videos of talks

• “Black health matters: Racism and protest in a pandemic,” (conversation with Yolonda Wilson), June 2020.

• “Racial inequality during a pandemic,” (roundtable with Korey Garibaldi and Yolonda Wilson), May 2020.

• “Philosophers as pundits,” (with Gal Katz), April 2020.

• “Aristotle and the ethics of nature,” October 2019.