Academic Service
APA BLOG: SYLLABUS SHOWCASE (2024-present)
I am the editor of the APA Blog’s “Syllabus Showcase” series, which showcases academic philosophers’ most innovative, successful, or philosophically significant syllabi. I am particularly interested in publishing innovative, historically-focused, and non-traditional philosophy syllabi. You can find the Syllabus Showcase posts I’ve edited here. If you’d like your syllabus to be featured in the series, please get in touch.
LUC HONORS CINEMA CLUB (2025-present)
In Fall 2025, together with Loyola Chicago Honors students, I co-founded the Honors Cinema Club (“HCC”). As faculty supervisor, I help student leaders program film screenings, host Q+As with filmmakers, and facilitate academic discussions with the larger Loyola community on independent and major short and feature-length films that are thematically or formally related to content taught in the HONR101 and HONR102 courses. Our first screening was this past February 2026: it was held in the Damen Center Cinema, and included a discussion of Thomas More’s Utopia alongside a screening of an independent low-fi cyberpunk film, In The Glow of Darkness (2024) by Tucker Bennett, who was able to join us on Zoom after the screening for a Q+A with the audience. Our second screening, scheduled for late March 2026, will be of the The Truman Show (1998) accompanied by a discussion of meta-theater and doubling in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. You can find HCC on Instagram.
Minorities and Philosophy is an international organization whose mission is to address structural injustices in academic philosophy and to remove barriers that impede participation in academic philosophy for members of marginalized groups. Through our international organizing team and graduate student-led network of autonomous chapters around the world, we aim to examine and dismantle mechanisms that prevent students from marginalized groups from participating in academic philosophy, as well as to promote philosophical work done from marginalized perspectives, and help improve working conditions for scholars from marginalized backgrounds.
Events with MAP at the University of New Mexico: Screening: Olsson’s Concerning Violence (2018), Screening: Jarman’s Wittgenstein (2018), Panel on Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2018) Panel on Schulman’s Conflict is not Abuse (2017)
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) was formed by the APA board of officers in 2016, and the GSC's inaugural membership began their work in 2017. The GSC serves as a liaison between the graduate students in the discipline of philosophy and the APA, reporting to the APA board of officers on issues of interest, concern, and relevance to philosophy graduate students. The GSC chair is a voting member of the APA board of officers. The GSC advises the board on how to best serve and support graduate students, occasionally undertaking projects at the board's request. Additionally, the council regularly undertakes projects of its own that further its goals.
Project highlights: APA Pacific 2023 Panel: Trans Philosophy; APA Central 2023 Panel: Philosophy in Times of Crisis; Webinar: Teaching Philosophy with Art + Literature (recording)