Academic Employment

Associate Professor of Philosophy with a Secondary Appointment in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN – 2021 to present

Assistant Professor of Philosophy with a Secondary Appointment in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN – 2014 to 2021

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY – 2012 to 2014

Education

PhD in Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York City, 2013

MA in Philosophy, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2006

BA Honors in Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada, 2005

AOS: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy, Hegel, German Idealism, Marx, Frankfurt School Critical Theory
AOC: History of Modern European Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Awards and Fellowships

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, University of Potsdam, 2023–2025

Greg S. Allen Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 2022–2024

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Network Grant, “Recognition Theory and Epistemic Injustices,” 2021–2024

Faculty Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 2021–2022

Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for Hegel’s Concept of Life, 2021

Visiting Researcher, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, July 2020*

Research Fellow, Center for Humanities and Social Change, Humboldt University Berlin, Spring/Summer 2018

Research Scholars Grant, Vanderbilt University, 2017–2018 

Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development Summer Research Fellowship, Siena College, June 2013 

Hans Jonas Memorial Award in Philosophy, Ph.D. Dissertation Award, New School for Social Research, May 2013 

Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 2011–2012 

Doctoral Research Fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 2010–2011

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada, 2008–2010

*Cancelled due to COVID-19