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
“Wollstonecraft, Mill and Rousseau on the Subjection of Men,” co-authored with Daniel
E. Burns. Interpretation; a Journal of Political Philosophy 49, no. 2 (Winter 2023),
pp. 155–76.
“Individual Genius and Common Culture.” In Symposium on Nietzsche’s ‘Unfashionable Observations,’ by Jeffery Church. The Review of Politics 82, no. 4 (2020), pp. 625–28.
Review of Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy, a New Introduction, by Nelson Lund. The Review of Politics 82, no. 1 (2020), pp. 167–70.
“The Political Possibilities of the Faith of the Savoyard Vicar.” In The Rousseauian Mind, edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 376–86.
PRESENTATIONS
“The Carpentry Solution to the Problem of the Bourgeois in Rousseau’s Emile,” at Northeastern
Political Science Association Conference, November 2025.
Debate on “Rousseau, Friendship, and Romance” with David Futscher, for the Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, March 2025.
“A Defense of Romantic Love in the Modern Era.” Invited lecture for the Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, April 2024.
“Writing ‘for a good mother who knows how to think’: Practice and Philosophy in Rousseau’s Emile.” Invited contribution to conference “Democracy and Enlightenment: The Challenge of Rousseau,” at Boston College, November 2022.
Panelist on “Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Church’s Nietzsche’s ‘Unfashionable Observations,’” at American Political Science Association Conference, August 2019.
“In the Place of Poul-Serrho: on the Vicar’s Reticence on Hell,” at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2017.
“Rousseau’s Religious Project,” at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2016.
“Promises of Utility and the Soul of the Bourgeois,” at “The Enduring Challenge of Rousseau’s Thought: Tercentenary Conference,” held by Colorado College and The Rousseau Association/Association Rousseau, December 2012.
“The Sanctity of the Social Contract,” at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2012.
“Promises in Rousseau: a comparison between Emile and Julie,” at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2010.