Teaching

I am a passionate teacher with serious interest in pedagogy; I am always striving to find ways to better myself as an instructor.

Awards and Fellowships

• In 2023, I received the Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award.

• In 2022, I was awarded the Humanities Engage Summer Fellowship for Collections-Based Curricular Development for an undergraduate course I developed with Dr. Nicholas Rescher on the Vienna Circle.

• In 2019, I was a teaching fellow at MIT’s Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI).

Courses Taught as Primary Instructor

• Introduction to Moral Philosophy [syllabus]

• Friendship (honors seminar)

• History of Ancient Philosophy [syllabus]

• Morality and Medicine

• Introduction to Chinese Philosophy [syllabus]

• Introduction to Logic

• Beginner Ancient Greek (language course)

Future Courses

• [Upper Level] Aristotle’s Ethics and the Soul [syllabus]

An advanced introduction to key themes in Aristotle’s philosophy, focused on the relationship between the physiological account of the soul in De Anima and the account of the human soul – and human character – in the Nicomachean Ethics.

• [Upper Level] The Philosophy of Pleasure [syllabus]

An advanced course in moral psychology, focused on investigating the nature of pleasure. Covers approaches from value theory, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.

• [Upper Level] Empiricism Through the Ages

An advanced course on the evolution of empiricism in the history of philosophy, covering ancient empiricism (including Aristotle and Epicurus), early-modern empiricism (including Locke and Hume), and analytic empiricism (including the Vienna Circle).