EDUCATION
PhD, Political Science, Boston College
B.A., Philosophy, University of Winnipeg
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3332 Aristotle's Politics
POL 3334 Enlightenment & Liberal Democracy
POL 3336 Comparative Politics
IPS 8342 Hobbes and Rousseau
PUBLICATIONS
鈥淲ollstonecraft, Mill and Rousseau on the Subjection of Men,鈥� co-authored with Daniel
E. Burns. Interpretation; a Journal of Political Philosophy 49, no. 2 (Winter 2023),
pp. 155鈥�76.
鈥淚ndividual Genius and Common Culture.鈥� In Symposium on Nietzsche鈥檚 鈥楿nfashionable Observations,鈥� by Jeffery Church. The Review of Politics 82, no. 4 (2020), pp. 625鈥�28.
Review of Rousseau鈥檚 Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy, a New Introduction, by Nelson Lund. The Review of Politics 82, no. 1 (2020), pp. 167鈥�70.
鈥淭he Political Possibilities of the Faith of the Savoyard Vicar.鈥� In The Rousseauian Mind, edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 376鈥�86.
PRESENTATIONS
鈥淭he Carpentry Solution to the Problem of the Bourgeois in Rousseau鈥檚 Emile,鈥� at Northeastern
Political Science Association Conference, November 2025.
Debate on 鈥淩ousseau, Friendship, and Romance鈥� with David Futscher, for the Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, March 2025.
鈥淎 Defense of Romantic Love in the Modern Era.鈥� Invited lecture for the Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, April 2024.
鈥淲riting 鈥榝or a good mother who knows how to think鈥�: Practice and Philosophy in Rousseau鈥檚 Emile.鈥� Invited contribution to conference 鈥淒emocracy and Enlightenment: The Challenge of Rousseau,鈥� at Boston College, November 2022.
Panelist on 鈥淎uthor Meets Critics: Jeffrey Church鈥檚 Nietzsche鈥檚 鈥楿nfashionable Observations,鈥欌�� at American Political Science Association Conference, August 2019.
鈥淚n the Place of Poul-Serrho: on the Vicar鈥檚 Reticence on Hell,鈥� at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2017.
鈥淩ousseau鈥檚 Religious Project,鈥� at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2016.
鈥淧romises of Utility and the Soul of the Bourgeois,鈥� at 鈥淭he Enduring Challenge of Rousseau鈥檚 Thought: Tercentenary Conference,鈥� held by Colorado College and The Rousseau Association/Association Rousseau, December 2012.
鈥淭he Sanctity of the Social Contract,鈥� at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2012.
鈥淧romises in Rousseau: a comparison between Emile and Julie,鈥� at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2010.