About Me

I’m a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, specializing in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. In particular, I’m interested in questions about punishment, moral repair, rights theory, and the relationship between justice and the state. In my dissertation (Decriminalizing Crime: Accountability Without the Retributive Ritual), I argue that what’s right about retributivism can be satisfied by abolitionist alternatives to criminal punishment. My committee is Elizabeth Anderson (chair), Renée Jorgensen, Gabriel Mendlow, David Sussman, and Ekow Yankah.

I also have a M.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University, where I wrote a thesis co-directed by Andrew Cohen on whether natural rights can be alienated or forfeited (they can’t), and a B.A. in Philosophy & Sociology from the University of Oklahoma.

Further details on my dissertation (and each chapter), along with other work, can be found on the Research page.

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