Education

    2007  - present, PhD Candidate in Philosophy; University of Maryland, College Park

    2007 - M.A. in Philosophy; University of Maryland, College Park

    2002 - M.A. in Bioethics; Trinity Graduate School, Deerfield IL

    1999 - B.S. in Biology & Philosophy: Wheaton College, Wheaton IL

Areas of Specialization: Moral psychology, metaethics

Areas of Competence: Ethics, applied ethics, bioethics

Publications

    (2009) “Reason and Intuition in the Moral Life: A Dual-Process Account of Moral Justification,” in J. Evans and K. Frankish (eds.) In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (Oxford University Press).

    (2003) From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice” [book review] Ethics & Medicine 19(2).

Presentations

    (2006) “Reason and Intuition in the Moral Life: A Cognitivist Defense of Moral Intuitions,” at In Two Minds: Dual-Process Theories of Reasoning and Rationality. Cambridge University : UK, July 6.

Fellowships & Awards

    2007 - Summer Research Scholarship; Dept. of Philosophy, University of Maryland

    2006 - Brian James Hull Memorial Scholarship awarded to Most Outstanding First Year Graduate Student; Dept. of Philosophy, University of Maryland

    2006 - James K. Goldhaber Travel Grant; Graduate School, University of Maryland

Teaching

    Contemporary Moral Problems - Instructor (PHIL 140; Spring 2008)

    Ethical Theory (PHIL 341, Spring 2007)

    Action & Responsibility (PHIL 282, Fall 2006)

    Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 140, Fall, 2005)

Departmental Service

    2008 - 2009 Dean’s Council on Graduate Affairs; College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland

    2006 - 2008 Undergraduate Academic Advisor; Dept. of Philosophy, University of Maryland

    2006 - 2007 Graduate Student Representative; Dept. of Philosophy, University of Maryland

Employment

    2005 - present: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Philosophy; University of Maryland

    2002 - 2005: Writer/Editor, National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Washington D.C.

Professional Associations

    American Philosophical Association

    Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Graduate Seminars

    Metaphysics, Mind and Language            Michael Morreau

    Moral Cognition                                         Susan Dwyer

    Practical Rationality                                   Patricia Greenspan

    Architecture of Mind                                  Peter Carruthers

    Philosophy of Science                               Lindley Darden

    Hume                                                         Mark Schroeder

    Metaethical Expressivism                          Mark Schroeder

    Kant and Kantianism                                 Samuel Kerstein

    Value Theory                                              Patricia Greenspan

    Philosophy of Language                            Paul Pietroski

    Default Logic and Reasons                       John F. Horty

    Justice                                                       Christopher Morris

References

    Susan Dwyer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland Baltimore County

    Peter Carruthers, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Maryland

    Dan Moller, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland