I am an openly queer, non-traditionally religious philosopher from the Deep South. I make sure my students know and I ask them to use my pronouns, but I try—in accordance with my faith—to practice grace and forgiveness. My identities and teaching history inform my teaching expectations and practices. While I am particularly concerned with teaching students who traditionally feel marginalized, my job is to teach everyone. For me, the ‘teaching bullseye’ of teaching philosophy is sparking philosophical curiosity. It is my desire that students have a deep but wide understanding of philosophical perspectives, arguments, and figures, and that their understanding instills in them an intense curiosity for the world. This manifests itself in a variety of ways, from the “aha!” expression to desires to engage further with academic philosophy. It is to provoke, as J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “questions that need answering,” and to equip their natural curiosity with philosophical rigor.

For my efforts in teaching, I was awarded the 2019 Graduate Teaching Award by the University of Washington's philosophy department and the 2014 Vernon Teaching Award by the University of Arkansas' philosophy department. You can view my teaching philosophy here. You can read about my experiences teaching philosophy in prison here. Click here for my Teaching Portfolio.

The American Philosophical Association featured one of my syllabi, "The Rainbowed Divine: Diverse Voices in Philosophy of Religion," on their blog.

​Below are the courses I’ve taught, along with some further information about my teaching experiences and pedagogy. Included in the PDF for each course, where available, are the syllabus and the course evaluation. In cases where I didn't design the course, I have excluded the syllabus.
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GRADUATE
  • Philosophy of Race and Gender (Spring 2020)
  • Graduate Seminar on the Ethics of Self-Defense (Fall 2019)
UNDERGRADUATE