Education
University of Chicago Joint PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy (ongoing)
University of Chicago MA, Committee on Social Thought (completed 2024; conferred 2025)
With Distinction. Qualifying papers on Sophocles, Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger
St. John's College, Santa Fe BA, Majors: Philosophy, History of Math and Science; Minors: Classics, Comparative Literature (2018-2021)
Thesis: Hegel's Logic of Normative Conceptuality
Faculty Award for Sustained Academic Excellence.
Publications (selected)
[3] "Review of Owen Ware, Kant's Justification of Ethics." Journal of Moral Philosophy (Fall 2024).
[2] "Review of Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Philosophy." Interpretation (Fall 2024).
[1] "Review of Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life." Philosophy Today (Fall 2021).
Presentations (selected)
Heidegger Circle Meeting, Pittsburgh, May 2025 (Tbd)
German Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2025
Southern NAKS Study Group Meeting, Alexandria, April 2025 (Awarded NAKS Graduate Student Stipend)
Practical Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, April 2025
West Coast Heidegger Workshop, Los Angeles, January 2025
Disentangling Heidegger on Technology Workshop, Südtirol, June 2024
German Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2024
Literature and Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2023
Literature and Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2023
Göttingen/Chicago Graduate Student Conference, Göttingen, June 2022
Commentary, etc.
Comments on Avery Goldman, “Reality [Realität] in Kant’s Anti-Rationalist and Anti-Materialist Second Edition Paralogisms”
Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop, March 2024
Panel Chair, "Social Ontology and the Scientific Image of Man," University of Göttingen, June 2022
Panel Chair, "Reading Heidegger with Kant," University of Chicago, May 2021
Fellowships and Awards (selected)
Research and travel funding support from the North American Kant Society, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, the University of Chicago Humanities Division, the University of Chicago Philosophy Department, the Nef Fund, the Heidegger Circle, and the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism (2022-2025)
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship (2026)
Distinction on Fundamentals Examination, Committee on Social Thought (2024)
Social Sciences Division Fellowship, University of Chicago (2021-2027)
Richard D. Weigle Prize for Best Senior Thesis (2021)
Walter S. Baird Award for Achievement in Arts and Literature (2021)
Junior-Senior Set Mathematics Prize (2021)
Essay Prizes, St. John's College (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Greek and French Translation Prizes, St. John's College (2019, 2020, 2021)
Event Grants
Conference funding support for Kant's Third Critique and Its Legacy (conference tbd May 2026):
Grant from the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
Grant from the Franke Institute for the Humanities
Grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture
Grant from the University of Chicago Department of Philosophy
Professional Service
Conference and related organizing (selected):
Kant's Third Critique and Its Legacy: An International Conference
Co-organized with Adam Katwan
University of Chicago, Spring 2026
Committee on Social Thought Colloquium Series
Co-convenor with Elaine L. Wang
University of Chicago, 2024-2026
Masterclass on Metaphysics with A.W. Moore
University of Chicago, September 2025
Q&A on Academic Publishing with A.W. Moore
University of Chicago, September 2025
Panel: Heidegger on Metaphysics as Ontotheology
Heidegger Circle Meeting, Pittsburgh, May 2025
Workshop: Heideggerian Reliability (Mark Wrathall on Heidegger's philosophy of art)
University of Chicago, April 2025
Translations
[4] Translation from German of Markus Gabriel, Der Mensch als Tier, Cambridge: Polity (2024).
[3] Translation from French of Reiner Schürmann, Trois penseurs du délaissement, Zurich: Diaphanes (2023).
[2] Translation from French of Reiner Schürmann, Les présupposés philosophiques de la Christologie de Maître Eckhart, Zurich: Diaphanes (2023).
[1] Translation from French of Claude Geffré, Correspondence with Reiner Schürmann, Zurich: Diaphanes (2023).
Professional Affiliations
American Society for Aesthetics, 2025-present
British Society for the History of Philosophy, 2025-present
Heidegger Circle, 2018-2019, 2024-present
Metaphysical Society of America, 2020-2021, 2024-present
North American Fichte Society, 2025-present
North American Kant Society, 2024-present
Research Languages
French, German, Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin