Teaches or has taught the following courses

PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy (online and face to face)
PHIL 211: Contemporary Moral Issues (online and face to face)
WGST 112: Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies (online and face to face)
PHIL 335: Disobedience, Dissent, and Revolution
PHIL 334: Feminist Philosophy (online)
PHIL 320: Ethics

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2014
M.A. in Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
M.A. in Women's and Gender Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 2005
B.A. in Religion and Philosophy, Carthage College, 2003

Peer Reviewed Publications

“The Master’s Tools Revisited: Implicit Gender Essentialisms in Second Wave Beauvoir Scholarship.” Forthcoming in Southwest Philosophical Studies vol. 44.

 “Tracking the Transformation from Benign Silence to Harmful Silencing.” Forthcoming in Southwest Philosophical Studies vol. 40.

 “Teaching the Students We Have So They Become the Learners They Need to Be: Metacognition in Philosophy at Two-Year Colleges.” APA Newsletter on Philosophy in Two Year Colleges, May 2019.

“Defining ‘Abortion’ and Critiquing Common Arguments about Abortion” (co-author, Nathan Nobis) in College Ethics. 2^nd edition. Edited by Bob Fischer. Oxford University Press. 2020

Public Scholarship

“Want a Good Job? Major in Philosophy.” Short Take. America: The Jesuit Review, August 2020.

 “Abortion and Soundbites: Why Pro-Choice Arguments are Harder to Make” (co-author, Nathan Nobis) Areo Magazine, July 23, 2019.

Selected Presentations & Workshops

“Cultivating Student Resistance in and Beyond the Classroom, or, Pedagogy as Killjoy Revolution.” Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies South (WGS South), March 2024.

“Beyond ‘War’: Limiting and Liberating Metaphors for Sexual and Reproductive Justice.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, October 2023.

“Beyond ‘War’: A Binary-Resistant Reading of the Feminist ‘Sex Wars’” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association. Virtual. March 2023.

“Special Roundtable: Reproductive Oppression and Reproductive Freedom: Foucauldian-Feminist Perspectives.” With Dianna Taylor (John Carroll) and Merritt Rehn-Debraal (Texas A&M San Antonio).  21st Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle. Kansas City, MO. 2023.

“Tensions in Feminist Pedagogy.” Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies South. Virtual Conference. March, 2023.

 “Academic Redlining and Appreciative Education: What Can We Do About Persistently White Classes?” American Association of Philosophy Teachers International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy. Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio. July, 2022.

 “The Master’s Tools Revisited: Implicit Gender Essentialisms in Second Wave Beauvoir Scholarship.” New Mexico – Texas Philosophical Society. Waco, TX.  Spring 2022.

“Faculty-Led High Impact Practices on a Low Budget” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy. Virtual Summer Workshop: How We Teach. June, 2021.

 “Using Daily Preparatory Writing Exercises to Teach Students How to Become Independent Learners” Invited presentation. AAPT–APA Teaching Hub, American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division. Spring 2021.

Spring Master Class Series on Teaching with Metacognition: “Metacognition: What it is and why we need it”; “Student Metacognition and How to Cultivate It”; “Faculty Metacognition and Transformative Teaching.” Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina. Spring 2021.

“Simone de Beauvoir's Anti-Essentialism as Antidote to White Feminism.”  Southeastern Women’s Studies Association. Virtual. March 2021.

“Aspiration vs. Moral Luck: A Murdochian Response.” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL. February 2020.

"Antifragility in Ethics Depends on Narrative Resistance and Resistance to Narratives" presented at the Alabama Philosophical Society, 2017

"Tracking the Transformation from Structural Silence to Harmful Silencing" presented at the New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society, 2016

"Expanding Feminist Silences: Moral Formation and Praiseworthy Silence" presented at the Alabama Philosophical Society, 2016

"Clarity, Charity, and Compassion: Training Students to Foster Inclusive Classrooms" co-presented with Merritt Rehn-Debraal at the workshop/conference of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, 2016

"Literary Art, Moral Growth, and Silence" presented at the University of New Mexico Graduate Conference, 2013

"Smart Porn/Stupid Porn: Questioning the Need to 'Get it Right' About Pornography" presented to the Society for Women in Philosophy, 2008

"Excess, Irony, Biology, and Simone de Beauvoir" presented at the Modern Language Association, 2007