About Me

Starting this fall, I’ll be Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Political Economy at Tulane University & the Murphy Institute. Prior to Tulane, I was a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets & Ethics.

My work is in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law, especially questions surrounding punishment and other means of responding to wrongdoing.

In August 2025, I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan. 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. (Or, more conservatively, that the case for retributivism depends upon substantive criminological assumptions.) My committee was Elizabeth Anderson (chair), Renée Jørgensen, Gabriel Mendlow, and David Sussman.

I also have a M.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University, where I wrote a thesis co-directed by AndrewCohen 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, along with other work, can be found on the Research page.

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