Areas of Specialization: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Teaching Competence: Logic
2024-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy - University of Notre Dame
2018-2024: PhD Philosophy - University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: “Love, Forgiveness, and Narrative”
2013-2017 B.S. Mathematics and Philosophy (majors), Music (minor) - Grove City College (summa cum laude)
Thesis: “Finding Even Values of Euler’s Zeta Function with Bernoulli Numbers”
PUBLICATIONS
Journal 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.
(2023) “Why the Jesus as Mother Tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination.” Religious Studies, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412522000786
(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.
(2025) “Does God Only Forgive us if We Forgive Others?” Faith and Philosophy.
Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews
(2024) "Self-Narratives" in Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, edited by Allison, Scott; Beggan, James & Goethals, George. Springer.
(forthcoming) “REVIEW: Cristian F. Mihut, Gracious Forgiveness: A Theological Retrieval.” the Journal of Analytic Theology.
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: A Publicatoin of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame.
(2022) “Priestly Ministry in the Person of the Theotokos and the Church” Public Orthodoxy.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record
2025-2026 The Good Life • Main Line Classical Academy
Spring 2025 Virtues and Vices • University of Notre Dame
Fall 2024 Technology Ethics • University of Notre Dame
Spring 2023 Ethics as a Way of Life: Theory and Practice • University of Notre Dame
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2021 American Political Thought • University of Notre Dame
Fall 2020 Epistemology and Metaphysics • University of Notre Dame
2016-2017 Symbolic Logic • Grove City College
2017 Summer Institute for Mathematics • University of Washington
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
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