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Contact Information

Alden March Bioethics Institute
47 New Scotland Ave.
MC 153
Albany, NY 12208-3412

Education

PhD, Philosophy 2019
University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: "Egalitarian Liberalism and Economic Freedom"
Dissertation Committee: Samuel Freeman (advisor), Kok-Chor Tan, Alex Guerrero
MA, Philosophy 2013
Georgia State University
Thesis title: "Do Political Liberals Need the Truth?"
Thesis Committee: Christie Hartley (advisor), Andrew Altman, Andrew I. Cohen
BA, Philosophy & History 2011
Georgia State University

Areas of Specialization: Clinical Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Political Philosophy
Areas of Competence: Ethics, Applied Ethics

Certification

Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification (HEC-C) 2022

Publications

(with multiple authors) "Firearm Violence in the United States: An Issue of the Highest Moral Order," Public Health Ethics (forthcoming).

(with Wayne Shelton and Daniel Kim) "The Place of Bioethics in Philosophy: Toward a Mutually Constructive Integration," American Journal of Bioethics 22, no. 12.

(with Justin Bernstein) Review of Pandemic Bioethics, by Gregory Pence, Public Health Ethics 13, no. 3 (2020).

(with Justin Bernstein) "Reciprocity and the Ethics of Giving During Pandemics," Journal of Social Philosophy 51, no. 4 (2021).

(with Justin Bernstein) "Against the Public Goods Conception of Public Health," Public Health Ethics 13, no. 3 (2020).

"Restating Statist Theories of Territory," comment on Margaret Moore's A Political Theory of Territory, Philosophy & Public Issues 6, no. 1 (2016).

Talks and Presentations

2022 "Public Health without Perfectionism"
PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans
2022 "When is Covert Medication Permissible? A Case Study"
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Portland
2022 "Public Health, Surveillance, and Privacy"
PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans (2021 meeting postponed due to COVID)
2022 "Public Health, Surveillance, and Privacy"
Concordia University, Montreal (invited)
2021 "Locke's Jansenist Conception of Charity"
Locke Society, Naples (held online)
2020 "Carbon Footprints and Individual Responsibility for Emissions"
MANCEPT (held online)
2020 "The Non-Identity Problem, Climate Change, and Collective Action"
Rocky Mountain Ethics, Boulder, CO (held online)
2019 "Evidential Decision Theory, Managing the News, and the Rationality of Voting"
PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans
2018 "Coercion as Rough Treatment: Threats to Self and Others"
Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado
2018 "Ideal Theory, Liberal Ideology, and Internal Critique"
PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans
2018 "An Externality Tax on Guns: The Pollution Model"
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Chicago
2017 "The Full Compliance Assumption Revisted" (with Chetan Cetty)
Manchester Centre for Political Theory
2017 "Assessing the Relevance of Ideal Theory" (workshop co-chair)
Manchester Centre for Political Theory
2017 "The Pollution Model of Gun Control"
Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado
2017 "A Hawks & Doves Game for Peer Disagreement"
Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop
2017 Comments on Lisa Rosenlee's "Confucian Political Authority, Social Cohesion, and Dependency Care"
Penn Minorities and Philosophy (MAP): Global Feminisms
2016 "Fairly Distributing the Benefits and Burdens of Gun Ownership"
Penn Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Workshop
2016 "Justifying Emigration Restrictions"
Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado
2015 Panel Presentation on Mary Astell
Penn Women in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop
2015 "The Downstream Effects of State Secession"
University College of Cork

Awards and Fellowships

2017-2018 Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellowship

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught as Instructor of Record

Fall 2019 - Present Health Care and Society 1 Albany Medical College
Fall 2019 - Present Health Care and Society 2 Albany Medical College
Spring 2023 Reproductive Ethics Albany Medical College
Spring 2022 Classic Cases in Clincial Ethics Albany Medical College
Spring 2021 Introduction to Ethics United States Naval Academy
Spring 2021 JUKSIP United States Naval Academy
Summer 2020 The Social Contract University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2018 Environmental Ethics University of Pennsylvania
Summer 2017 The Social Contract University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2013 Introduction to Philosophy Georgia State University
Fall 2012 Introduction to Philosophy (two sections) Georgia State University
Summer 2012 Introduction to Philosophy Georgia State University

Teaching Assistant Experience

Spring 2016 Bioethics University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2015 Philosophy of Law University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2015 Philosophy of Social Science University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2014 Justice, Law, and Morality University of Pennsylvania

Additional Teaching Experience

With John Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth:

Summer 2019 Exploring Ethics (instructor)
Summer 2019 Global Justice and Human Rights (instructor)
Summer 2018 Introduction to Philosophy (teaching assistant)
Summer 2016 Global Justice and Human Rights (instructor)