Curriculum Vitae
CV
Education, teaching, presentations, awards, and academic work.
Education
Ohio University
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Arts, 2024–Present
M.A., Philosophy, 2021–2023
Thesis: Kant’s Aesthetics: Tattoos and Fine Art
Committee: James Petrik (Chair), Jeremy Morris, and Alfred Lent
University of California, Riverside
B.A., Philosophy, 2019–2021
Minor: Religious Studies
Crafton Hills College
A.A., Humanities; A.A., Religious Studies; A.A., Philosophy, 2016–2019
Teaching
Ohio University — Visiting Faculty, Fall 2023–Present
University of Akron — Assistant Lecturer, Fall 2023–Spring 2025
Ohio University — Graduate Student Teacher, Fall 2021–Fall 2023
Presentations
2026
“The Triadic Hermeneutics of Body Art: Expanding Gadamer’s Aesthetic Framework” — Long Island Philosophical Society
“Agamben’s Dialectical Split Reconciled in Body Art” — Ohio Philosophical Association
“Back to the Agora: Ancient Greek Pedagogy in the Modern Classroom” — COABE Conference
2025
“A Proto-Spinozan Critique of Cartesian Dualism in 17th Century Dutch Art” — Indiana Philosophical Association
“Back to the Agora: Ancient Greek Pedagogy in the Modern Classroom” — OAACE Conference
Accepted, unable to attend: “On Reason and Passion: A Reconciliation of Plato and Hume’s Philosophies” — South Carolina Society for Philosophy
“Virum Post Machina: AI-Generated Art Considered in a Kantian Framework” — North Carolina Philosophical Society
“Virum Post Machina: AI-Generated Art Considered in a Kantian Framework” — University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Conference
2024
“A Freirean Analysis of Power Dynamics in the Corrections Classroom” — OAACE Conference
2023
Accepted, unable to attend: “What is ‘a’ Fine Art” — American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division
“Aristotelian Inquiry” — Long Island Philosophical Society
“Kant’s Aesthetics: Tattoos and Fine Art” — North Carolina Philosophical Society
2022
“Kant’s Aesthetics: Tattoos and Fine Art” — Ohio University Graduate Student Symposium
2021
“Delineatory Work: Autonomy, Moral Autonomy, and Responsibility” — Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Awards
Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor’s Award in Recognition of Outstanding Student Performance, 2024
Attained at Ohio University while an instructor; award issued to program.
Wayne and Mary Spetnagel Outstanding Graduate Student in Philosophy Award, 2022–23
Summer Research Grant, Ohio University, 2022
Regent Transfer Scholarship, University of California, Riverside, 2019–2021
Presentations organized
University of California, Riverside — 2021
“The Weirdness of the World: The Bizarreness and Dubiety of Every Theory of Mind and Cosmos” — Eric Schwitzgebel
“Leibniz on Why Material Things Can’t Be Material Things” — Adam Harmer
“Discrimination and Mistaken Identity” — Kreshav Singh
“Experimental Philosophy” — Joshua Knobe
2020
“The Temporal Lives of Agents” — Luca Ferrero
“Nietzsche’s Critique of Guilt” — Avery Snelson
“The Fabric of Faith” — Howard Wettstein
“Philosophical Counseling” — Suzi Ferrarello
Language
English — Native speaker
German — Intermediate speaking, reading, and writing
Relevant coursework
Asian Arts; Philosophy and Performance; History of Aesthetics (Comprehensive); Baroque and Rococo Art; Contemporary Aesthetics and Theory; Contemporary Art and Global Politics; History of Aesthetics (Antiquity); Kant; Meta-Ethics; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Religion; Mortal Questions; Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Introduction to Ethics.
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