EMPLOYMENT
 

2024 - Present

Assistant Professor 

Memorial University of Newfoundland

2020-2024    

Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division

The University of Chicago
                          
EDUCATION
 

Ph.D. Philosophy

September 2020  

The Graduate Center, CUNY
                                                          
Dissertation: "Freedom, Equality, and Markets in Eighteenth Century Philosophy"                           Advisor: Omar Dahbour 
Committee: Linda M. Alcoff, Michael Menser, Catherine Wilson 
        

M.A. Philosophy

September 2013
The Graduate Center, CUNY                                                
 
B.A. Honors in English, Summa Cum Laude

Minors: Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Power

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

May 2007                      
                                     
                                    
Areas of Specialization
Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy (18th century/Late Modern)
 
Areas of Competence
Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Journal Articles:
"Adam Smith and Richard Price on a Free Society of Equals," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.23

Book Chapters: 
“Kant’s Commercial Republicanism.” In Rethinking Kant: Volume 6, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Book Reviews:
Review of Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) in Radical Philosophy Review (Fall 2018).

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

Contributions to Volumes:

 

“Recovering the Case for Common Property and Republican Freedom,” in Recovering Richard Price: Essays on a Renaissance Man in the Age of Enlightenment, University of Wales Press

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

“Land Financialization and Property-Owning Democracy: Rematerializing Property in Contemporary Approaches to Justice” (under review )

 

“Degrowth’s Agrarian Blindspot” (co-author w/Pedro Monque, UNC Charlotte) 

FELLOWSHIPS
 

Fall Fellowship Program, Nexus Centre Memorial University of Newfoundland, Fall 2025
Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2017-2020
The Graduate Center, CUNY Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2014-2017

PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

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“Land Financialization and Property-Owning Democracy,” The Land Question, Centre for Social Critique, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany (Fall 2025)

 

Panel Participate “A Roundtable Discussion on Documentary Filmmaking,” Nexus Centre, Memorial University (Fall 2025)

 

Comments on “Eco-Sovereignty: A Political Principle for the Ecological Crisis” by Omar Dahbour, Book Panel, The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans, LA (Fall 2025)

 

“Degrowth’s Agrarian Blind Spot” co-presented with Pedro Monque (UNC Charlotte), Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) Workshops 2025, Manchester, United Kingdom (Fall 2025)

 

“An Agrarian Alternative to Green Extractivism in Newfoundland,” The FANE Public Seminar in Environmental Ethics, Newfoundland (Summer 2025)

 

“An Eco-Socialist Alternative to Land Financialization,” Marx in the Anthropocene: Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment, Venice, Italy (Winter 2025)

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Comments for “Marx and Philosophy” Symposium, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, NY, NY (Winter 2025)

 

Panel Participant “Whose Land, Whose Theory, and Whose Policy,” EthicsLab Conference, Yauondé, Cameroon (Summer 2024)

 

“Rematerializing Property in Contemporary Theories of Property-Owning Democracy,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Spring 2024)

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“Property-Owning Democracy and the Environment,” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans (Fall 2023).

 

“Recovering the Case for Common Property and Republican Freedom,” Wharton-Groningen PPE Workshop, Groningen, Netherlands (Fall 2023).

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“Property-Owning Democracy and Environmental Sustainability,” Ecological Integrity, Earth Systems, & The Crisis of Democracy, 31st Annual International Conference of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, Potsdam, Germany (Summer 2023) 

 

“Richard Price on Property and Nondomination,” Richard Price Tercentenary Conference, Cardiff University, Wales (Summer 2023) Invited Speaker 

 

Comments on Simone Gubler’s “A Decent Living: Making the Case for the Minimum Wage,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Montreal, Canada (Winter 2023) 

"Rethinking the Meaning of Property in Contemporary Theories of Property-Owning Democracy,"  12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, Center for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (Summer 2022)

"Republicanism Against the Free Market: Richard Price and the Agrarian Tradition," Society of Fellows Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Winter 2022)

Comments on Christopher Bousquet's "Work and Social Alienation," APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD (Winter 2022)

"Adam Smith on a Free Society of Equals," The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE), New Orleans, LA (Winter 2022) 

"Adam Smith on a Free Society of Equals," The Political Theory Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Winter 2021)

“Adam Smith’s Laissez-Faire Republicanism,” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE Society), New Orleans, LA (Spring 2020) (Unable to attend due to covid-related travel restrictions at my university)
 
Session Chair, “Social and Political Philosophy,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Winter 2020)
 
“Kant’s Republican Defense of the Free Market,” 15th Annual Meeting Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society (ENAKS), Brandeis University (Spring 2019) 
 
Comments on Yi Deng’s “Kant’s Federalism of Free States: A Contractual View,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York, NY (Winter 2019)
 
“A Brief History: Anti-Imperialism and Free Trade,” The Radical Philosophy Association Conference,The University of Kentucky (Fall 2016)
 
“Kant on Free Trade: For or Against?” The Loyola Philosophy Graduate Conference, Loyola University (Fall 2016)
 
“Rethinking Materialist Feminism: Reflections on Class, Gender, and Materiality,” 
The New York Society for Women in Philosophy Workshop, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Summer 2013)
 
“Historical vs. Cultural Materialisms in Contemporary Feminist Debate,” Historical Materialism, New York Conference, New York University (Spring 2013)
 
 

TEACHING

 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

 

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

Philosophy 3231: Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Fall 2025)

• Overview of Kant’s moral and political philosophy and comparison to the political and moral philosophy of Smith and Rousseau.

 

Philosophy 2050: Social and Political Philosophy (Winter 2025)

• Survey of central arguments in social and political philosophy with a particular focus on the justification of political authority, the meaning of political freedom, and debates on distributive justice.

 

Philosophy 2060: Moral Philosophy (Fall, 2024)

• Survey of central arguments in moral philosophy, with a particular focus on trends in Western ethical theory, i.e., virtue ethics (Aristotle), deontology (Kant), and utilitarianism (Mill). 

 

Philosophy 1011: Critical Reading and Writing in Ethics (Winter 2025, Fall 2025)

• Survey in moral philosophy with a special focus on environmental ethics.

 

University of Chicago

 

Social Sciences 11400, 11500, 11600: Power, Identity, Resistance I, II, III (2020-2024)

• A yearlong seminar course that examines the interrelated aspects of power in economic markets, political states, and social structures.

 

Philosophy 22211, 32211: Economic Justice and the Environment (2023)

• Critical examination of contemporary theories of justice from an ecological perspective.

 

Hunter College, City University of New York

 

Philosophy 10400: Introduction to Ethics and Moral Judgment (2020)

• Survey in moral philosophy

                                   

Philosophy 23000: Feminist Philosophy (2019)                   

• Survey in feminist Philosophy                                        

 

Philosophy 25000: Problems of Ethics and Society (2018)  

• Debates on the morality of markets                                                                                 

 

Philosophy 24600: Political Philosophy (2016-2020, 5 times)        

• Upper level political philosophy course focusing on texts by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, Marx, and Iris Marion Young.

 

Philosophy 10600: Philosophy, Politics, and Society (2015-2019, 6 times)

• Survey course in social and political philosophy

 

 

New York University                         

 

Texts & Ideas: Life and Death (2016)                                               

• Teaching Assistant to David Velleman

 

 

 

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

 

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

Philosophy 4142/6062: Economic Justice and the Environment (Fall 2024)

• Critical examination of contemporary theories of justice from an ecological perspective.

Professional Service
 

2024                Co-Organizer Annual Conference for Committee on Environment, Geography, and                          Urbanization (CEGU), “Past and Future Commons,” The University of Chicago

2023                Referee, Highlights of Sustainability Journal
2023                Weissbourd Conference Organizer, “Ethics and Nature in a Time of Crisis” The                                 University of Chicago, Society of Fellows 
2022                 Reviewer, Journal of Social Philosophy
2021-Present   International Social Ontology Member
2020-Present   Philosophy, Politics, Economics Society Member
2018-Present   American Philosophical Association Member
2016-2017        Doctoral Student Council, Philosophy Department                                                                                Representative, The Graduate Center, CUNY 
2014-2018        Co-Organizer, CUNY Social and Political Philosophy Workshop
2013                 Co-Organizer, Historical Materialism Conference, NYU