I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. 

I specialize in medieval philosophy, especially the thought of Sts. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and their thirteenth century context. I received my B.A. in philosophy from Biola University in 2016 (and am a perpetual member of Biola's Torrey Honors College), and my M.A. (2024) and Ph.D. (2026) in philosophy from Baylor University. My dissertation -- Mind, Form, Being: St. Albert the Great's Neoplatonic-Aristotelian Metaphysics of Cognition -- was written under Thomas Ward. 

Outside of philosophy, I love literature (some favorites: Dostoevsky, Dante, Tolkien, and Lewis's Till We Have Faces), staying active, sports (all Tennessee and Baylor teams), good food and coffee, and spending time with friends and family. I also have a deep (possibly inordinate) love for cheesecake and ice cream. 

• "One Substance or Two? The Challenge to St. Albert the Great's Anthropological Synthesis," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 97 (2020).

• "A Thomistic Sexual Realism," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 94 (2020).

• “Albert the Great’s NeoPlatonic Realism,” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting (2025).

• “Albert, Aquinas, and Some Medieval Formulas on Being” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting (2024).

•  “Aquinas among Contemporary Affective Scientists” at Aquinas at 800: “Ad multos annos” (2024).

• “The Practical Syllogism and the Formal Causation of Action in Aristotle,” at the Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting (2024). (Accepted but unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances).

•  “One Substance or Two? The Challenge to St. Albert the Great’s Anthropological Synthesis,” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting, main program (2023).

• “Towards a Hylomorphic Approach to Emotion” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting (2022).

• “Persistence, Existential Inertia, and Divine Conservation: A Thomistic Analysis of a Recent Controversy” at the 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion (2022).

•  “Malum Daloris: Aquinas and Oderberg on Pain and Privation” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting (2021).

• “A Thomistic Sexual Realism” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting, main program (2020).

• PHL 317 - Early Modern Philosophy (2026, Franciscan University)

• PHL 113 - Philosophy of the Human Person (2026, Franciscan University)

• PHI 1301 - The Good Life (2025, 2026, Baylor University)