Description / Biography

I teach a range of ethics classes at Beloit, and I regularly teach Logic as well. As a professor, I see my role as helping students to think more clearly and carefully about the world around them and their place in it. We all walk different paths and give our time and energy to different pursuits, but at the end of the day, most of us want to be able to say that we were good people–that we aimed our efforts in the right directions, and that we made the world a better place. But–as with most things–none of these goals are as simple as they might seem.

Because my teaching reaches across a wide variety of issues and student interests, I am an affiliated faculty member in several of our interdisciplinary programs: Environmental Studies, Health & Society, and Law & Justice. Currently, I’m serving as faculty director of our Advanced Mentoring Program, where I get to help shape the experiences of our first-year students. Whether I am teaching or advising students in Philosophy or in any other program, I love the conversations I get to have, and the connections I get to both make and help students make. It’s a privilege to have a job where I can help Beloit students find and pursue the futures they want for themselves.