Teaching

I teach philosophy as a way of helping students notice that abstract questions often show up in ordinary life. In my courses, I ask students to take seriously the possibility that philosophical concepts shape how we understand ourselves, other people, and the practices we take for granted. This means that even introductory courses are not just surveys of “big questions,” but opportunities to think carefully about concrete parts of human life: what we owe one another, what makes us responsible, what counts as knowledge, how social categories work, whether food can have moral significance, and how imagined worlds can help us see our own more clearly.

I am especially drawn to interdisciplinary courses, where philosophy comes into contact with other ways of studying human life. Some of my favorite teaching contexts involve food systems, political economy, religion, anthropology, psychology, environmental studies, science fiction, and social theory. I like helping students see how philosophical questions show up across disciplinary boundaries: in markets and institutions, in scientific explanation, in religious and ethical life, in technologies and imagined futures, and in the everyday act of eating.

Teaching Experience

Primary Instructor

• Science Fiction & Philosophy, University of Michigan, Summer 2026
• Introduction to Philosophy, University of Michigan, Spring 2022

Graduate Student Instructor

• Introduction to Political Economy, University of Michigan, Winter 2026
• Introduction to Philosophy, University of Michigan, Fall 2025
• Ethics, University of Michigan, Fall 2024 and Winter 2025
• Introduction to Ethics, University of Michigan, Fall 2023
• Introduction to Philosophy of Religion, University of Michigan, Fall 2022
• Introduction to Philosophy, University of Michigan, Fall 2021
• Critical Reasoning, University of Michigan, Winter 2021
• Contemporary Moral Problems: Rights and Races, University of Michigan, Fall 2020
• Minds & Machines, University of Michigan, Winter 2020
• Science & Objectivity, University of Michigan, Fall 2019