EDUCATION

Ph.D, Philosophy, University of Michigan, 2003-2009 (expected)

Dissertation: "Moral Saints Reconsidered" (Stephen Darwall and Elizabeth Anderson, Co-Chairs)

B.A., Philosophy, with High Honors, Wesleyan University, 1999-2003 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Metaethics, Applied Ethics (including Bioethics) 

PUBLICATIONS

"What Moral Saints Look Like," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming 2009. 

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2008-2009 (university-wide competition)

Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2008 (university-wide competition)

Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2007 (national competition)

Junior Fellowship, Fellows Seminar, Sweetland Writing Center 2007 (university-wide competition)

Charles L. Stevenson Prize 2006 (annual award for best philosophy candidacy dossier)

Rackham One-Term Fellowship 2006

Philosophy Department Fellowship 2003-2004

University Honors Nominee, Wesleyan University, 2003 (5 nominees from over 700 graduates)

Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University, inducted 2003 

Wise Prize, for best essay in moral philosophy (shared), Wesleyan University, 2003

PRESENTATIONS

"What Moral Saints Look Like," Graduate Student Working Group, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, April 2006.

"Comments on Nye and Ku's 'Internalist Manifesto'", Graduate Student Working Group, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, October 2005.

SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT

Graduate Admissions Weekend Planning Committee, 2008 

Invited Speaker on Teaching Writing, Brown Bag Series on Teaching, 2007 

Invited Panelist, Training Workshop for Graduate Student Instructors, 2005, 2006, 2007

Recruitment of Philosophy Majors at Undergraduate Concentration Fair, 2004 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Primary Instructor, University of Michigan:

  • Bioethics, Spring 2007
  • Introduction to Logic, Winter 2007

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan:

  • Contemporary Moral Problems, Winter 2006 (Peter Railton)
  • Ethics, Fall 2005 (Allan Gibbard)
  • Problems of Philosophy, Winter 2005 (Jim Joyce)
  • Problems of Philosophy, Fall 2004 (James Woodbridge) 

Wesleyan University, 2000-2003

  • Writing Tutor, Wesleyan University Writing Workshop
  • Writing Tutor for Modern Europe (History Department)
  • Teaching Assistant, for Early Modern Philosophy and Humans, Animals, and Nature
  • Instructor, Applied Ethical Problem Solving (a student-designed course)  
GRADUATE COURSEWORK
 
 
Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy
  •     Consequentialism and Contractualism (Elizabeth Anderson)
  •     Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action: Independent Study (David Velleman)
  •     Supererogation and Moral Saints: Candidacy Reading Course (Stephen Darwall)
  •     The Second-Person Standpoint* (Stephen Darwall)
  •     Philosophy and Sociology* (Elizabeth Anderson and Mayer Zald (sociology))
  •     Post-WWII Political Philosophy* (Elizabeth Anderson)
Metaethics
  •     Ethical Analysis* (Allan Gibbard) 
  •     Norm Expressivism and Empirical Science (Allan Gibbard)
  •     Contemporary Metaethics (David Velleman)
  •     Ethics and Evolution* (Peter Railton, Allan Gibbard, and Chandra Sripada)
  •     Rational Sentimentalism* (Dan Jacobson, Bowling Green)

Logic, Language, Mind, Science
  •     Proseminar in Philosophy of Language and Science (Jason Stanley and Peter Railton)
  •     Mathematical Logic (Larry Sklar)
  •     Philosophy of Mind (Peter Ludlow)
  •     Meaning and Normativity* (Allan Gibbard)
 
History of Philosophy 
  •     History of Ethics (Stephen Darwall)
  •     Aristotle (Rachana Kamtekar)
  •     Hume* (Louis Loeb)
  •     John Dewey (Elizabeth Anderson)

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