Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Chicago
Certification, Client Counseling, American Philosophical Practitioners Association
M.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago
M.A., The Committee for General Studies in the Humanities, fields of Art History, Philosophy and Studio Art, University of Chicago
B.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago
Associations
American Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Practitioners Association
American Counseling Association
Employment History
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Committee on Gender and Women's Studies, Committee on Business and Management Studies, Knox College 2000-2006
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Lecturer, The College at the University of Chicago 1998-1999
Preceptor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago 1997-1998
Mentor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago 1995-1997
Selected Publications
"Philippa Foot's Virtues and Vices," Philosophical Practice Vol. 3, no. 2, June 2008
"What is an Attributive Adjective?" (with Miles Rind) Philosophy Vol. 83, no. 2, March 2008
"On The New, New Philosophy," Letter to the Editor, The New York Times Magazine, December 23, 2008
"Christopher Butler's Pleasure and The Arts," Modern Philology Vol. 103, no. 3, February 2006
"Essence and Anti-Essentialism About Art," The British Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 44, no. 2, April 2004
"The Classificatory Sense of 'Art'," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 61, no. 2, Spring 2003
Selected Awards & Honors
Cartier Fund Research Award
Philip Green Wright/Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching
Certificate of Appreciation, Educational Development Program for Low Income and First Generation College Students
Merit Award for Special Service to the College, Knox College
Kemper Research Award, Kemper Foundation
Honor Roll for Faculty Who Change Lives, University of Pittsburgh