January 2022 - Present | Department Chair, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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2013 - Present | Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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2020 - 2022 | Acting Department Chair, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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2019 - 2020 | Fellow, University of Louisville ‐ Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society | |
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2006 - 2013 | Associate Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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2009 | Visiting Associate Professor, Rice University ‐ Humanities | |
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2000 - 2006 | Assistant Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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1995 - 2000 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona ‐ Philosophy Department | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2019 - Present | Faculty Fellow |
Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society | |
Internal fellowship grant carrying course release and research funding | |
$5,000 | |
2018 | "Reading Kanafani in Kentucky" |
Cooperative Consortium for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Research (Internal grant) | |
Role: Co-PI | |
$6,200 | |
2017 | For 2017 miniconference on "Sports, Ethics, and Public Life" |
Society for Applied Philosophy Events Funding | |
$2,000 |
Honors and Awards
- William Fink Prize for outstanding achievement in graduate study, Philosophy Department, University of Arizona (joint award), 2000.
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Honorary Fellow (turned down fellowship to accept position at Louisville), 2000.
- Victor A. Olorunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, University of Louisville., 2002.
- Second Annual Rick O’Neil Memorial Lectureship, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 2002.
- Humanities Research Center External Faculty Fellowship, Rice University, 2009.
- Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize, for Land, Conflict, and Justice: A Political Theory of Territory, 2011.
- Journal of Applied Philosophy Prize, for “Floating Provisos and Sinking Islands,” 2013. (Awarded to best paper published in Journal of Applied Philosophy in the previous calendar year.)
- Richard & Constance Lewis Fellowship in Latin American & Iberian Studies, University of Louisville Program in Latin American & Latino Studies, 2014. (Fellowship for research travel.)
- College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Scholarship, Research & Creative Activity Award in Humanities, 2013-14.
- University of Louisville Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, & Creative Activity in Humanities, 2013-14.
- Visiting Fellowship, Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2015.
- Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize, for A Moral Theory of Solidarity, 2017.
- Tri-College Distinguished Lectureship in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Haverford/Swarthmore/ Bryn Mawr Colleges, April 2018.
2000 | Ph.D., University of Arizona ‐ Philosophy | |
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1995 | B.A. with Honors, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University ‐ Ethics & Political Philosophy | |
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Contact Information
Department of Philosophy
313 Bingham Humanities Bldg
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-0453
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