Welcome
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy and Education at Columbia University, Teachers College working under the advisement of Dr. Megan Laverty. My other readers are David Bakhurst (Queen's University), Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt University), David Hansen (Columbia University), and Katja Vogt (Columbia University). I work on moral philosophy (especially moral epistemology) and how it relates to moral formation through education. My dissertation provides an account of moral understanding that emphasizes the perceptual and linguistic dimensions of understanding and shows how and in what ways education can cultivate moral understanding. Much of my work draws on ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato), Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Most recently, I contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (2023) on democratic education, critical theory, and moral perception. Beginning in Fall 2024, I will be working as a term faculty member in the Education Program at Barnard College.
In my spare time, I enjoy film photography, rock climbing, cooking, films, literature, and design.
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Expected 2025.
M.Ed., Concentrations in Statistics and Philosophy, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2020.
B.A., English Literature and Secondary Education, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 2017.
Research Interests:
AOS: Philosophy of Education, Ethics, Epistemology
AOC: Social and Political Philosophy, Plato