I came to Marquette’s Philosophy faculty in 2003 after spending two years teaching at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, and my undergraduate degree is from Purdue University. My teaching and research focuses upon social and political philosophy, and issues of oppression and liberation in particular (especially race and racism).
I have recently published articles on racial authenticity, the idea of public good in classical liberalism, and Hegelian recognition in feminist theory. My current projects involve a critique of Sartre’s account of material scarcity, an exploration of phenomenological accounts of racial embodiment, and a Nietzschean approach to anti-racism. I teach courses in theoretical and applied ethics, political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
I have also been studying martial arts for ten years, and teach them here at Marquette as well.
