Teaching Philosophy
I have two main goals in my teaching.
The first is to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for all students. To do so, I work to make philosophy feel approachable, meaningful, and worth doing, making space for students’ diverse backgrounds, interests, and anxieties. Philosophy can feel intimidating and strange, especially for students from marginalized backgrounds and for those, like myself, who are first-generation college students. I strive to make sure everyone knows they belong in the conversation.
My second goal is to get students to truly philosophize for themselves, often for the first time. To that end, we do a lot of close reading, small-group work, discussion, and in-class writing in my classes.
My teaching evaluations (available upon request) bear out my success in achieving these goals; as one student reports: “my brain always hurt after this class in the best way.”
Courses Taught
All syllabi available upon request
University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill
PHIL 140: Knowledge and Society (Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024)
An introductory-level course on applied and social epistemology for students with no philosophical background.
PHIL/POLI/ECON (PPE) 698: PPE Capstone (Fall 2026)
An upper-level course, serving as the final, research-paper-based capstone course for the PPE program.
PHIL/POLI/ECON (PPE) 384: Gateway to PPE (Spring 2026)
An intermediate-level course serving as an introduction to the methods, concepts, and foundational texts of PPE.
PHIL 165: Bioethics (Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024)
An introductory-level course on bioethics for students with no philosophical background.
University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Social Epistemology (Spring 2023)
An upper-level course introducing social epistemology to philosophy majors.
Concepts of Human Nature: Human Nature and AI (Summer 2020, virtual).
An introductory-level course introducing students to philosophy (taught virtually during Covid Summer).