I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy from UMass, Amherst in 2020. I am currently an instructor at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, teaching an introductory ethics course. NU is an English-language research university operated in partnership with several prominent western univesities. Before coming to NU, I taught for several years at the University of Hartford.

I work on Ancient Greek philosophy, mainly the early dialogues of Plato. I wrote a dissertation arguing for a new reading of Plato's Euthyphro, focusing on the Greek ethos of reciprocity and how it helps us understand Socrates' unusual and rationalistic conception of piety. My current projects are mostly extensions of this one.

I am originally from Athens, GA, though I lived in New England for long enough to consider myself a New Englander. I did my undergraduate work at UGA, where I was heavily influenced by Edward Halper, under whose tutelage I learned to love Socrates. I went on to do my MA at UConn, where I worked with Donald Baxter on Leibniz, and first developed my interest in Hellenistic philosophy, by way of Baxter's exploration of the connection between Hume and Pyrrhonism. My dissertation on Euthyphro was supervised by Vanessa de Harven (chair), Melissa Mueller, Ernesto Garcia, and Jyl Gentzler of Amherst College.

I greatly enjoy living in northern Kazakhstan, though it is very cold. The food is hearty, the people are warm, and there is no end of new things to discover.