I regularly teach classes in my areas of expertise, including a survey and specialized classes in social and political philosophy, upper-division courses on critical theory and continental philosophy, and independent studies on these areas. I have also taught classes in applied ethics, logic and critical thinking, early modern philosophy, and philosophical writing. You can find the full list of courses I have taught on my CV.
Some recent teaching highlights:
- My course on “Writing and Reading Philosophy” has been featured on the APA Blog’s Syllabus Showcase.
- I organized an interdisciplinary roundtable on “Reality, Fantasy, and Utopia” to supplement my fall 2025 course on critical theory. Invited speakers included Maria Laura Martinelli (University of Utah), Delia Popa (Villanova University), and Cara Greene (Loyola University Chicago).
- As part of an independent study I led in Spring 2025, my students interviewed political theorist Banu Bargu about her recent book: Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal. You can find the published interview here.
- I am the faculty advisor for Sophia, my department’s student-run undergraduate philosophy journal
- I have organized two iterations of UVU’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference with the help of my department’s philosophy club. The conference brings together 16-20 philosophy students from local universities.
Here are syllabi for some of the courses that I have taught. If you’re interested in seeing more of my syllabi, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
I organize my social and political survey around “the social contract and its critics”. Alongside classic authors in the social contract tradition (Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Rawls), students learn about the prominent critiques of this framework put forward, for instance, by Charles Mills and Carole Pateman, as well as by contemporary social reproduction feminists. The course ends with readings on nonideal theory and the critique of historical progress.
Focusing on the interplay between the cultural/epistemic and material/economic dimensions of colonialism, this course stages an encounter between three prominent philosophical approaches to colonialism: postcolonial theory, decolonial theory, and anti-colonial Marxism.
This course introduced students to the interdisciplinary approaches to social research found in the early theorists of the Institute for Social Research. The emphasis was on getting a broad understanding of the key figures of the Frankfurt School (e.g., Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Benjamin), but also of those who are less often studied, such as Leo Löwenthal and Franz Neumann.