I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. I received my PhD in philosophy from Princeton in 2014. My research falls within three main areas: the philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of language.
I’m currently writing a book that’s under contract with Oxford University Press, tentatively titled Surviving the Dead. The book explores conflicting attitudes toward grief in modern secular cultures. Guided by the insights in contemporary memoirs of grief, the richest and most detailed sources for understanding the complexity of grief, it argues that there can be no acknowledgment of grief in anything like its actual complexity without an acknowledgment of the dead.
In 2024, I received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in support of this book project. This year, I’ll be working on this project as a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy.
I'm proud to serve on the University Center for the Humanities Board, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Board, and the Higher Education for the Justice-Involved (HEJI) Working Group. I'm also the founder of Scribbling Women, a writing club run out of the Ladies' Library Association, the first women's club in Michigan and the third in the United States.
I’m currently writing a book that’s under contract with Oxford University Press, tentatively titled Surviving the Dead. The book explores conflicting attitudes toward grief in modern secular cultures. Guided by the insights in contemporary memoirs of grief, the richest and most detailed sources for understanding the complexity of grief, it argues that there can be no acknowledgment of grief in anything like its actual complexity without an acknowledgment of the dead.
In 2024, I received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in support of this book project. This year, I’ll be working on this project as a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy.
I'm proud to serve on the University Center for the Humanities Board, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Board, and the Higher Education for the Justice-Involved (HEJI) Working Group. I'm also the founder of Scribbling Women, a writing club run out of the Ladies' Library Association, the first women's club in Michigan and the third in the United States.