Hello!

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

I received my PhD from Syracuse University in August 2026. I was a Dissertation Fellow at the Syracuse Humanities Center during the 2025-26 academic year.

My research concerns species of value and evaluative domains.

My well-being research explores the concepts of prudential alienation and resonance. I am developing a radical welfare subjectivism according to which our final welfare goods are those things to which we commit as expression of our will. I am also exploring nonconsequentialist conceptions of prudential normativity.

My dissertation explored the nature of epistemic value and epistemic normativity and how the epistemic domain relates to other domains such as the prudential and the moral. I argue that epistemic value is a non-prudential species of personal value, and that epistemic valuable goods can be distinctly epistemically good for us. I also introduce the concept of epistemic sacrifice – enduring a distinctly epistemic cost for non-epistemic, moral reasons.

I grew up outside of Rochester, NY. Before beginning my academic career, I was a public high school chemistry teacher in Detroit, MI for two years. I have also worked in Burlington, VT as a substance-abuse counselor for men supervised by the Vermont Department of Corrections.

You can see my APA Member Interview from 2022 here.