Welcome to my webpage. I am a Lecturer in the Program in Ethics, Politics & Economics and the Political Science Department at Yale 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 took the PhD in political philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in May 2008. My dissertation, directed by Richard Flathman and Sean Greenberg, was titled "The Structure of Political Theories: Why Normative Theories of Politics and Economics Depend on Ethics." I entered the PhD program at Johns Hopkins in September 2003.
You can contact me by e-mailing the address at the top of my vita.