Areas of Specialization: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Teaching Competence: Logic, Technology Ethics
2024-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy - University of Notre Dame
2018-2024: PhD Philosophy - University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: “Love, Forgiveness, and Narrative”
Committee: Michael Rea (advisor), Laura Callahan, Brian Cutter, and Christian Miller
2013-2017: B.S. Mathematics, Philosophy, and Music - Grove City College (summa cum laude)
Thesis: “Finding Even Values of Euler’s Zeta Function with Bernoulli Numbers”
RESEARCH
Articles and Book Chapters
(2022) "Narrative, Second-Person Experience, and Self-Perception: A Reason it is Good to Conceive of One’s Life Narratively."The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 615–627, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab046.
(2024) "A Triadic Model of How to Become like the Saints." in Exemplars, Imitation, and Character Formation: A Philosophical, Psychological, and Christian Inquiry edited by Eric Yang. Routledge.
(Forthcoming) “Does God Only Forgive us if We Forgive Others?” Faith and Philosophy.
Encyclopedia Entries
(2024) "Self-Narratives" in Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, edited by Allison, Scott; Beggan, James & Goethals, George. Springer.
Public-Facing Scholarship
(2024) “The Nuclear Family in Liturgical Perspective: Reflections on the Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple” Public Orthodoxy.
(2023) “Does God Only Forgive us if We Forgive Others?” Logoi.
(2022) “Priestly Ministry in the Person of the Theotokos and the Church” Public Orthodoxy.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record
Fall 2024 Technology Ethics • University of Notre Dame
Spring 2023 Ethics as a Way of Life • University of Notre Dame
2017-2018 Precalculus • Scholé Academy
2017-2018 Algebra I & II • Scholé Academy
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2021 American Political Thought • University of Notre Dame
Fall 2020 Epistemology and Metaphysics • University of Notre Dame
2017 Summer Institute for Mathematics • University of Washington
2016-2017 Symbolic Logic • Grove City College
2015-2016 Music Theory I & II • Grove City College
2014-2015 Physics I & II • Grove City College
Pedagogy Training
2024 Advanced Teaching Scholar Certificate • Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Notre Dame
PRESENTATIONS & COMMENTARIES
Jan 2024 Guest-lecturer for “Educating the Poetic Imagination” graduate-level course, Nashota House Theological Seminary
Nov 2023 “Divine Forgiveness,” Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Sep 2023 Commentator, Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers
Jan 2023 “Forgiveness and the Sermon on the Mount,” Meeting of the International Orthodox Theological Association
Oct 2022 “Forgiveness: Human and Divine,” Philosophy of Religion Workshop at Virginia Commonwealth University
Oct 2022 “Forgiving All by the Resurrection,” Midwest Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers
May 2022 “Forgiveness,” BAPT Summer Seminar and Workshop
At Notre Dame
Dec 2023 “Moral Luck and Moral Damage,” University of Notre Dame
Oct 2023 Guest-lecturer for “Lowly Virtues” graduate-level course, The University of Notre Dame
Feb 2022 “Forgiveness as Responding in Love,” The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2021-2022 Assistant • The Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame
2021-2022 Copy-Editor • The Journal of Analytic Theology
2022-2024 Peer Mentor Coordinator • Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) local chapter