In the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
Areas of Specialization
Ethics, Social Epistemology, Classical Chinese Philosophy
Areas of Competence
Social Metaphysics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy
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Education
Columbia University - PhD., (Entering class of 2022)
University of British Columbia - MA Philosophy (2022)
Simon Fraser University - B.A., Political Science (2020)
- graduate of the French Cohort Program
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Research Grants
$80,000 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
$17,500 SSHRC CGS-M Grant
Select Presentations
“Polite Politics”
October 2024 – Toronto Graduate Conference
“Knowledge Appropriation as Cultural Appropriation”
*Co-authored with Amogh Sahu*
October 2023 - Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference
April 2024 – Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference
January 2025 – Eastern APA Symposium
“What kind of metaethics must the presentist have?”
January 2024 – Eastern APA Colloquium
“Gendered Material Objects”
August 2023 - Social Ontology Conference in Stockholm (ISOS)
April 2023 - Pacific APA Colloquium
“When the Sprouts Wither: On the Mengzi-Xunzi Disagreement on Human Nature”
January 2023 - Eastern APA Colloquium as part of the ACPA
“The Harms of Mere Belief”
August 2022 -Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress poster presentation
“The Problem of Forgotten Moral Truths”
July 2022 - USC Rightness, Ignorance, Certainty and Praise Workshop
April 2022 – Pacific APA Colloquium
'Whooping Cranes on Pic Island' - Acrylic, 20x20
'Mount Ranier in Teal and Rubine' - Acrylic, 14x20
'Prairie Gold' - Acrylic, 42x30
Teaching
In addition to TAships at Columbia and UBC, I was a 2023 Teaching Fellow with the PIKSI-Boston (MIT) program for underprivileged philosophy students, where I taught a seminar titled "Confucius and Politeness Norms". I also worked as an instructor with Corrupt the Youth, a philosophy outreach program for high school students in NYC. For the 2024-2025 academic year I held a Teaching Assessment Fellowship at Columbia's Centre for Learning, where I helped develop a training program for TAs in the Chemical Engineering department. At SFU I worked as a Writing Clinic instructor at the Student Learning Commons, where I conducted individual consultations on issues with written assignments and specialized in assisting EAL students.
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Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant
At Columbia
Ethics (2024) – with discussion section
Epistemology (2024, 2025) x2– both with discussion section
Topics in ethics: Responsibility’s Conditions, Scope, and Limits (2023)
At UBC
Business Ethics (2022)
Contemporary Moral Problems (2022)
Philosophy of Law (2022)
Introduction to Logic(2021)
Introduction to Epistemology (2020-2021) x3 – once with discussion section
Biomedical Ethics (2020)
Professional Service and Community Involvement
I am involved in numerous projects in the philosophical community at Columbia and beyond. Since 2024 I have been the lead organizer of the Non-Western Philosophy Reading Group, where I direct discussions on the Zhuangzi and the Mengzi. I also serve as Rapporteur for the Comparative Philosophy Seminar Series, and as Graduate Representative within the Philosophy department.
I have also worked for many years with Ethics Bowl Canada, where I am currently a voting member of the Advisory Committee. My primary responsibility is in case development, and since 2020 I have been Lead Writer on cases concerning tiger parenting, wet markets, AI art, value capture, the commodification of pride, etiquette, and multiculturalism in medical care.
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Conferences
Organizer - 2023 Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference Committee
Commentator - 2023 Columbia End of Summer Workshop (Avery Archer – “On Doxastic Neutrality”)
Commentator - 2022 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (Laura Soter - “Reframing Epistemic Partiality: Acceptance and the Cognitive Work of Friendship”)
Reviewer - Nous
'Yukon's Cerulean Spiral' - Acrylic, 42 x 30
'Alaskan Skies' - Acrylic, 16x12
'On Bamboo Tides' - Acrylic, 16x22
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Public Philosophy
I am passionate about writing philosophy that is engaging and accessible to a broad audience, and have works-in-progress which blur disciplinary boundaries with literary non-fiction. I am currently writing an argumentative piece on conceptualizing discursive norms in collegiate debate as analogous to rules of fair sport, rather than moral norms regulating appropriate subject matter. Under review is a travelogue-style memoir on my time in Rwanda interviewing survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, titled 'Forgiving the Man with the Machete'.
Publications
"Why women should rethink their love for gay male manga"
Aesthetics for Birds (February 2025)