I came to Ohio State as Visiting Assistant Professor in 2024, after holding posts at Penn State and the University of Colorado, Boulder.  My research is on ancient Greek philosophy, focusing on Plato, the Presocratics, and Aristotle.  I am especially interested in the big metaphysical questions concerning fundamental reality, along with the ways that our answers to these questions inform how we live our lives.

I've published in Ancient Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, Classical Philology, Elenchos, and elsewhere.  I have a forthcoming edited volume on Parmenides called Inquiring into Being due to be published by SUNY Press in 2025.  Currently, I'm working on a book about Plato's Meno, using the distinction between being and having as an interpretive framework.  I argue that Plato helps us to rethink the nature of possession as entailing our alignment with ways of being in the world, and not material goods over which we exert domination and mastery.