In 2024, I received the Graduate Teaching Associate Award from the Ohio State University’s Philosophy Department. Applicants are evaluated along many criteria, including the ability to stimulate thinking and develop understanding among students, ability to demonstrate that one's courses resulted in significant student learning, excellent knowledge of and enthusiasm for course subject matter, and use of varied teaching techniques appropriate to course content and students. This award is the most prestigious teaching award offered by the department.

My students regularly rank me very highly in their overall student evaluations of my courses with my average SEI score being a 4.8/5. For a complete list of my scores, along with a comparison to the average scores of my department, see here.

You can see a small selection of qualitative feedback from my students' evaluation comments below. For more comments, see here.  

I have designed and taught the following courses as a lead instructor:

• Death & the Meaning of Life

• Science & Religion

• Philosophy & Videogames

• Introduction to Logic

• Introduction to Philosophy

• Engineering Ethics

• Computing Ethics

• In the summer of 2021, I participated in designing the curriculum for, as well as teaching for, a philosophy-themed summer camp for high schoolers at Ohio State. Our theme for Summer 2021 was disagreement and political polarization. My role in the camp was to first to help design discussion-based lessons related to the camp theme, design activities for each lesson and lastly, help construct debate prompts for the final debate among the students. During camp, I taught some of the lessons in the camp. I then helped facilitate the debate at the end of the camp.

  • In an anonymous survey administered at the end of camp, most campers said they strongly agreed that they would recommend the camp to a friend or peer, and most strongly agreed that they were excited to learn more about some of the topics we discussed. 

• I have also taught philosophy classes for Outschool, an online teaching platform in which teachers apply to offer courses they design themselves on a variety of topics. During Summer 2020, I twice offered a two-week long Star Wars Philosophy Camp – once for students 10-14 years old and once for students 15-18 years old. This class covered metaphysical, ethical and epistemological issues related to the Star Wars universe. For example, we discussed the nature of the Force and questions surrounding the consciousness of artificial intelligence as well as how people know things about the Force in Star Wars as compared to epistemologies in eastern philosophies. 

  • I have a 4.8 overall rating on my Outschool profile, and I received five stars for my philosophy classes. 

For more information on my philosophy outreach, see here.