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 being and 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, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Elenchos, and elsewhere.  A book volume I edited called Inquiring into Being: Essays on Parmenides is due to be published by SUNY Press in 2025.

Currently, I'm working on a monograph about Plato's Meno, using the distinction between being and having (or, roughly, activity and property) as an interpretive framework.  I argue that Plato helps us rethink the nature of possession, showing that it entails our alignment with ways of being in the world and not material goods over which we exert domination and mastery.  I also have in-progress research projects on the common sensible 'being' in Plato's Theaetetus, the contemporary Anglo-American reception of Plato's so-called "unwritten teachings," Aristotle's view of recollection, and Democritus' understanding of soul.