tEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, August 2005 to present
Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, August 2003 to July 2005
Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, August 1999 to July 2003
Grader and Teaching Assistant, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, October 1998 to April 1999
Student Teacher, Department of Mathematics, University City High School, Philadelphia, PA, September 1997 to May 1998
Faculty Member, Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs (for Middle School & High School Students), Wallingford, CT, Mid-June to End-July of Summers 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002
TEACHING AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
AWARDS
The UNM Presidential Teaching Fellowship (2014)
The UNM Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award (2011)
The UNM College of Arts & Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)
The UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2007)
FELLOWSHIPS
Funded Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, 12 July to 6 Aug 2010, Princeton, NJ
Institute Title: “Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion during the Scientific Revolution”
Institute Directors: Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew
Funded Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, 5-30 July 2004, Madison, WI
Institute Title: “The Intersection of Philosophy, Science and Theology in the Seventeenth Century”
Institute Directors: Steven Nadler and Donald Rutherford
COURSES TAUGHT AS A UNIVERSITY-LEVEL INSTRUCTOR
University of New Mexico
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Philosophy (in-person)
Early Modern Philosophy (in-person and on-line)
Philosophy of Science (in-person)
Graduate/Undergraduate Courses
Descartes (in-person)
Descartes and Newton (in-person)
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (in-person and on-line)
Kuhn's Revolution in Philosophy of Science (in-person)
Seventeenth Century Math & Metaphysics (in-person)
Fresno State University
Undergraduate Courses
Methods of Reasoning (in-person)
Critical Thinking in the Classroom (in-person)
Bacon to Kant (in-person)
Philosophy of Science (in-person)
Science and Religion (in-person)
Indiana University
Undergraduate Courses
The Pyrrhonists, the Poets, and the Post-Moderns (in-person)
Scientific Reasoning (in-person)