I am currently a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, employed as Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities. Before that, I completed my doctorate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, graduating in June 2008. My dissertation was titled: Kant’s Transcendental Deductions of the Categories.
Dissertation Committee
The members of my committee were: James Conant (director), Robert Pippin, Michael Kremer, and Sebastian Rödl (Basel).
Research Areas
My Areas of Specialization are Kant and Analytical Kantianism. My Areas of Competence are Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy , History of Analytic Philosophy, Ethics (esp. free will and moral responsibility) and Epistemology (esp. skepticism and transcendental arguments).
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy: University of Chicago (June 2008)
- B.A., Philosophy: McGill University (1999)
- B.A., History: University of Calgary (1995)
Awards and Honors
- H.B. Earhart Fellowship: Earhart Foundation, 2005-06 and 2006-07
- Ames Dissertation Fellowship: Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2004-05
- Manley Thompson Memorial Prize: Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2002 (Awarded by the Department of Philosophy for the best qualifying graduate essay)
- Century Fellowship: University of Chicago, 1999 to 2004
Recent Service and Administrative Work
- Job Search Committee Member: Harper-Schmidt Humanities Search Committee (Fall 2010) (Helped select new members of the Society of Fellows from a large pool of applicants)
- Journal referee: Kantian Review
- Supervisor of a Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant (2011-12) (Professional mentoring, supervision of bibliographic research)
- Panel Designer: Contradiction: the 2011 Weissbourd Conference (Spring 2011) (Developed and organized two panels on philosophical methodology and political philosophy, aimed at an interdisciplinary audience)
- Advisor: Taking the Next Step (January 9, 2010) (Led and participated in a roundtable discussion with seniors at the University of Chicago who are considering graduate study in the Humanities)
Languages
- German: good reading and translating skills
- Ancient Greek: some reading knowledge