EDUCATION
University of Notre Dame
2023 – 2028: PhD in Philosophy
Presidential Fellow
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
2019 – 2021: BPhil in Philosophy
John and Daria Barry Scholar
University of Notre Dame
2015 – 2019: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Honors
Minors: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and the Glynn Family Honors Program
Summa cum laude
New College, University of Oxford
2017 – 2018: Study Abroad Program
PUBLICATIONS
“From Toledo to Gotha: New Perspectives on the Impact of Avicenna upon Sciences and Philosophy in Europe.”
Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, vol 65 (2024).
CONFERENCE AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS
The 31st Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4th
Kent State University
“The Necessary Existence of God on a Modal Realist Account: Two Proposals”
16 March 2024
The 12th Annual Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group Graduate Student Conference
Marquette University (online)
“A Fourteenth-Century Avicennian? On Ockham’s Avicennian References in his Summa Logicae”
15 March 2024
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale Annual Congress
University of Paris
“Of a Like Mind: Exploring Interpretations of Ibn Rushd’s ‘Monopsychism’”
22-26 August 2022
Di Tella International Conference in Legal and Political Philosophy
La Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
“The Political, not the Private: Dis-analogy in Accounts of Political Legitimacy”
*Accepted to present, but conference was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Bioethics and the Public Online Conference
University of Oxford/University College London (online)
“Jarvis Thomson on Abortion and the Moral Praiseworthiness of Potential Mothers”
27-28 June 2021
Oxford Annual Medieval Graduate Conference
University of Oxford (online)
“Motion at a Given Instant: Assessing Avicenna’s Contribution to the Work of Albertus Magnus”
29-30 September 2023
Ockham Society Paper Presentation
Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford
“Does Justification of Political Authority Entail Political Legitimacy?: Contra Simmons’ Philosophical Anarchism”
25 November 2020
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant to Professor Robert Audi (Notre Dame Department of Philosophy)
Project: Of Moral Conduct: A Theory of Obligation, Reasons, and Values (2023: Cambridge University Press)
I provided line edits and suggestions regarding clarity for an advanced undergraduate/early post-graduate student reader.
Funding: Paid position
2022
University of Oxford Master’s Thesis (Philosophy Faculty)
Project: “Revisiting Human Individuation in Thomas Aquinas”
Funding: John and Daria Barry Scholarship
Supervisor: Professor Cecilia Trifogli (All Souls College)
2019-2021
University of Notre Dame Honors Senior Thesis (Department of Philosophy)
Project: “Omniscient and Immutable: Addressing Tension in Classical Theistic Attributes of God”
Funding: Awarded the Glynn Senior Thesis Research Award ($3500) to spend four weeks in September 2017 performing archival research on the works of Avicenna and Averroes in Arabic and English at archives in Jerusalem and Bethlehem
Advisor: Therese Cory
2017-2019
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Undergraduate Research Fellow
Project: Lyric Logic: American Modernism and the Problem of Induction
I provided research assistance in the form of locating, annotating, and summarizing potential source materials, providing commentary on early drafts.
Funding: paid position
Research Director: Johanna Winant (West Virginia University)
2018-2019
Research Assistant to Professor Robert Audi (Notre Dame Department of Philosophy)
Projects: copy-editing for forthcoming second-edition release of Moral Value and Human Diversity; summarize and annotate research materials for ongoing projects in moral philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of the mind; edit and provide commentary on clarity in academic papers for presentation and journal review.
Funding: paid position
2016-2018
Summer Research Assistant to Constitutional Studies Program (Notre Dame Department of Political Science)
Project: Role of religious language and rights in state constitutions; assisted in producing a searchable database of references to religious language in state constitutions
Funding: paid position
Advisors: Vincent Muñoz and Susan Collins
2017
ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT
AAIWG Graduate Reading Group | Marquette University (virtual)
8 October 2022 – present
Conveners: AAIWG graduate student members Atefe Esmaili, Seth Kreeger, Nicoletta Nativa, and Pooya Heybatollahi and Professor Richard Taylor (Marquette University)
Justice in Thomistic Ethics | The Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C.
18 July 2021 – 24 July 2021
Instructor: Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University
Medieval Philosophy Reading Group | Cambridge University
9 October 2020 – 6 December 2021
Convener: John Marenbon
Latin Intensive Intermediate Course | Latinitas Society, University of Oxford
9 October 2020 – 6 June 2021
Thomistic Seminar | Princeton, NJ (online)
2-8 August 2020
Instructors: Candace Vogler, Therese Cory, Dhananjay Jagannanthan, and Winifred Mueller
Virtual Medieval Colloquium | Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris (online)
20 March 2020 – 30 June 2020
Convener: Robert Pasnau
TEACHING AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
History of Philosophy Forum Fellow
History of Philosophy Forum | Notre Dame, IN
21 August 2023 – present
Assist the History of Philosophy Forum staff and faculty to provide hospitality to visiting HoP speakers and dignitaries.
Rhodes Scholarship Interview Preparation Committee
Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement | Notre Dame, IN
Autumn 2023
Selected by CUSE staff to provide mock interviews for students applying to competitive fellowships and funding in the UK. Reviewed applicant material and held mock interviews for undergraduate semi-finalists.
Philosophy Online Tutoring
Coronavirus Teaching Initiative | Oxford, UK
15 March 2020 – 1 August 2020
Offered philosophy tutorials to small groups high-school aged students from underserved state schools (A-levels) engaged in e-learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic as optional enrichment. Designed an eight-part series covering some basic topics in philosophy: including the mind-body problem, moral realism, consequentialism, how to evaluate arguments, and an introduction to universals.
Philosophy Seminar: “The Philosophy of Climate Change”
Challney High School for Girls | Luton, UK
13 February 2020
Designed and convened a two-hour interactive seminar on the philosophical questions related to climate change for year 10 students (aged 14-15) in an after-school enrichment program. Liaised with program coordinators to assign and assess homework after class was completed.
Access Outreach Philosophy Lecture: “Why We All Should Study Philosophy”
Christ Church College | Oxford, UK
10 February 2020
Prepared and delivered a 60-minute lecture on the study of philosophy and its importance for lower-sixth formers (aged 16-17) in Christ Church College’s outreach program. Led a seminar-style discussion after the lecture delving into questions about first principles and the application of philosophical exploration to other
disciplines.
Philosophy Major Advisory Council | Notre Dame, IN
Undergraduate Student Committee Representative
April 2016 – May 2019
Elected by my undergraduate peers in the philosophy department to represent undergraduate interests in reviewing course offerings, sponsored discussions nights and guest speakers; developed departmental mentorship programs; liaised between student body and philosophy faculty in monthly meeting and at events
for the department.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT
University of Notre Dame (USA) in England | London, U.K.
Assistant Rector, London Global Gateway
December 2021 – May 2023
Primary Responsibilities: responsible for the physical and mental safety and wellbeing of Notre Dame university students studying abroad and living in a student residence owned and operated by the University; participated in disciplinary processes for students studying in London; provided hall programming and planned
cultural excursions for students; apply for University and external grants for welfare enrichment.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group
British Postgraduate Philosophy Association
History of Philosophy Forum
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Presidential Fellowship | Notre Dame, IN
Awarded competitive fellowship providing five years of additional funding and coverage of healthcare premium to supplement standard PhD student stipend for promising graduate students in the humanities and social sciences.
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale Annual Congress Young Scholar Bursary (€500) | Paris, France
Awarded €500 to fund travel to Paris, accommodation, and attendance for the presentation of a paper at the SIEPM Annual Congress in August 2022.
John and Daria Barry Scholarship | Oxford, U.K.
Full-expense scholarship covering tuition, room and board, transportation, and other
associated expenses for the completion of the BPhil degree at the University of Oxford. Scholars are selected on the basis of intellectual achievement and promise, leadership, character, and collegiality and participate in academic mentorship, seminars through the Canterbury Institute, and lecture series.
John A. Oesterle Award in Philosophy | Notre Dame, IN
Award presented, when merited, to the graduating philosophy major who has so excelled their classmates in the study of philosophy as to be worthy of special recognition in honor of the memory of a beloved member of the Notre Dame philosophy faculty. Bursary awarded in May 2019.
Phi Beta Kappa Early Inductee | Notre Dame, IN
One of twelve students university-wide selected for early induction at the end of junior year (April 2018).
Glynn Honors Senior Research Award ($3500) | Notre Dame, IN
Awarded to cover cost of travel and living expenses for four weeks of archival
research in Bethlehem and Jerusalem in summer 2017.
Eli Lilly Scholarship| Franklin, IN
Four-year, full-tuition scholarship to attend any Indiana public or private university. Awards given to two students in each of Indiana’s counties. Awarded March 2014.
National Merit Finalist Scholarship ($2500) | Indianapolis, IN
LANGUAGES
Spanish | Intermediate spoken, written, and reading
Classical Arabic | Early intermediate written, reading
Latin | Self-study of Wheelock’s Latin
Greek | Beginner Graduate reading (equivalent to one year of study)