Service
Elected Service Positions
Graduate Student Council (American Philosophical Association)
Elected in 2022, I am currently serving a two-year term as a member of the APA-GSC to advocate on behalf of graduate students in philosophy to the Board of the APA, advising the Board on how to best serve and support graduate students, and undertaking our own projects to further serve these goals.
2022–2023 | Liaison, Virtual Programming Committee
Co-organizer of the APA-GSC section at the 2023 Pacific APA meeting
Graduate-Professional Student Congress (U. of Arkansas)
From 2018–2022, I was proud to serve on the UArk GPSC, both as an elected representative of my department and as an elected university-wide representative for all graduate and professional students.
2021–2022 | President Pro Tempore, Legislative Assembly
2020–2021 | Secretary, Executive Cabinet
2019–2021 | Member, Research Council
2018–2020 | Chair, Academic and Teaching Committee
2018–2020 | DSO Representative, Philosophy
I have also had the privilege of sitting on UArk’s Graduate Dean’s Student Advisory Board since Fall 2019.
Academic Service
Organizer: The Philosophy in the Ozarks Graduate Conference
Reviewer: Lexington Press, Between the Species, Concerned Philosophers for Peace/Brill, The Southwestern Philosophical Society, the Third Cogtweeto Workshop, the GPSC Research Colloquium
Editorial Assistant: Faith and Philosophy
Public Philosophy
In addition to regularly contributing articles analyzing current events to The Prindle Post, I have published chapters in eight “Pop Culture and Philosophy” books (from Blackwell, Carus, Rowman & Littlefield, and Open Court) such as:
“Should You Eat Baby Yoda?” in Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back,
“Fred Rogers and the Ethics of Care” in Mister Rogers and Philosophy,
“Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself: Counterfactual Narrative Identities of a Zombie-Hunter” in Jane Austen and Philosophy
“Where Have All the Übermenschen Gone?” in Superman vs. Batman and Philosophy