Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD student in political science at Johns Hopkins University. I specialize in political philosophy and have research and teaching interests in legal philosophy, normative ethics, and constitutional theory.
My research examines normative and conceptual questions at the intersection of ethics and politics. My work aims to explain the wrongness of evils like racism and oppression, to explain why freedom or love of humanity are good, and to provide a systematic account of the ethical principles which guide individual conduct and political institutions.
I filed my dissertation, directed by Richard Flathman and Sean Greenberg, on 14 September 2007. The dissertation is "The Structure of Political Theories: Why Normative Theories of Politics and Economics Depend on Ethics." I graduate in May 2008.
I entered the PhD program at Johns Hopkins in September 2003. Before that, I took an MA in International Relations at the University of Chicago. You can contact me by emailing the address at the top of my vita.