About Me

I’m a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets & Ethics, working in philosophy and specializing in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. In particular, I’m interested in questions about punishment, moral repair, rights theory, and the relationship between justice and the state.

In August 2025, I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan. In my dissertation (Decriminalizing Crime: Accountability Without the Retributive Ritual), I argue that what’s right about retributivism can be satisfied by abolitionist alternatives to criminal punishment. My committee is Elizabeth Anderson (chair), Renée Jørgensen, Gabriel Mendlow, and David Sussman.

I also have a M.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University, where I wrote a thesis co-directed by Andrew Cohen on whether natural rights can be alienated or forfeited (they can’t), and a B.A. in Philosophy & Sociology from the University of Oklahoma.

Further details on my dissertation, along with other work, can be found on the Research page.

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