I am currently a Lilly Teaching Fellow—a well regarded two-year fellowship for early-career scholar-educators to foster growth in a community of peers and master teachers.
From 2022-2024, I was a Service-Learning Fellow, which enabled me to learn methods for developing and carrying out a service-learning course (which I began in 2025 with my Inside-Out course—see adjacent).
I have developed and taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in ethics, critical thinking/reasoning, bioethics, philosophy of death and dying, political philosophy, philosophy of law, military ethics, and other applied philosophy topics.
I have also taught philosophy in several (what you might call) 'non-traditional' academic and non-academic environments.
I have a lot of experience working with military service members. I believe—and have not yet been corrected—that I am the only professor in the US to have taught dedicated ethics courses to all three major groups of American military students—cadets (at West Point), officers (at the Naval Postgraduate School), and enlisted personnel (at the Naval Community College). For several years, I led ethics trainings for Naval Special Warfare (the Navy SEALs and related groups) for their Platoon Leader's Course.
I am also dedicated to bringing philosophy courses to incarcerated students. I regularly teach the philosophy course of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, under the auspices of Common Good Atlanta, at Whitworth Women's Prison in Hartwell, GA. And every spring, I teach Philosophy 3700S - Criminal Justice Ethics at the Athens-Clarke County Jail as an "Inside-Out" class. This pedagogical model centers on bringing together "outside students" (UGA undergraduates) and "inside students" (students currently incarcerated) for shared learning and dialogue.
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Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy and Ethical Reasoning
Social/Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Sports and Games
Biomedical Ethics
Ethics of Food
Criminal Justice Ethics
Death and Dying
Law and Morality/Philosophy of Law
The Philosophy of Gamification
The Philosophy of Kendrick Lamar
Ethics of War
Moderate Deontology