Fields
Philosophy of religion, Christian philosophy, Jewish philosophy, continental philosophy, embodied cognition, philosophy of childhood, critical race theory, gender studies
Teaching
Philosophy of Religion, Religion & Rationality, Science & Religion, Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed, Modern & Contemporary Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Race & Religion, Classics of Christian Thought, Capstone Seminar
University Affiliation
Secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy; affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, Center for Bioethics & Health Law, and Global Studies Center
Advisory Board, Office of Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement
Education & Training
- PhD, Duquesne University
Representative Publications
The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism (editor), Lexington Books, 2021.
“The Embodied Practices of Whiteness: Unpacking One’s White Supremacist Education.” in The Logic of Racial Practice (Lexington, 2021)
Book Review Essay: “Mara H. Benjamin. The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.” Journal of Jewish Identities, 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 127–30.
“What Hand Transplantation Teaches Us about Embodiment,” AMA Journal of Ethics Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Quality of Life in Reconstructive Transplant Ethics” 21, no. 11 (Nov. 2019): E996–1002.
“The Tree of Life: Wisdom in the Aftermath of Terror.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 25, no 1 (2019): 107-20.
“How Levinas Can (and Cannot) Help Us with Political Apology in the Context of Systemic Racism.” Religions 9, no. 11 (2018): 1-22.
“Merleau-Ponty on Embodied Cognition: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Spinal Cord Epidural Stimulation and Paralysis,” Essays in Philosophy 17, no. 2 (July 2016): 69–93.
Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries, coedited with David Kennedy (Lexington, 2016)
Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas: Intersubjectivity as Dialectical Spiral (Lexington, 2016).
“Merleau-Ponty on Children and Childhood,” Childhood & Philosophy 11, no. 22 (2015), 1-20.
“Levinas and the Parent-Child Relation: A Merleau-Pontyian Critique of Appropriating Levinas to Developmental Psychology,” The Humanistic Psychologist, 43, no. 2 (2015).
“Emmanuel Levinas, Radical Orthodoxy, and an Ontology of Originary Peace.” Journal of Religious Ethics 42, no. 3 (2014): 516-39.
“Al-Farabi’s Religious Inclusivism: Prolegomena for Dialogue between Islam and the West.” Kinesis 39, no. 1 (Spring 2012).
“Kierkegaard’s View of Religious Pluralism in Concluding Unscientific Postscript.” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 3, no. 1 (2011).
“Derridean Hospitality in an Age of Political Xenophobia.” The American Future (2010).
“A Catholic Bishop and Two Atheists Bringing Justice to the World: Augustine, Singer, & Nagel on Equality and Partialit.,” Fides Quaerens Intellectum 4.1 (2009)
Religion, Race & Marginalization. Co-Authored with Sameer Yadav. Cambridge University Press (under contract)