Biography

Susquehanna University - Philosophy

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, 2004, Emory University
M.A., Philosophy, 2002, Emory University
B.A., Philosophy and Greek Studies, 1998, Bucknell University

--cum laude
--Departmental Honors in Philosophy
--Honors College

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethical Theory

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Cross-Cultural Education, History of Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2018- Professor of Philosophy, Susquehanna University
2012- Chair, Department of Philosophy, Susquehanna University
2016-2018 Coordinator, Africana Studies Program, Susquehanna University
2009-2018 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Susquehanna University
2003-2009 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Susquehanna University

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Dorothy M. Anderson SGA Faculty Member of the Year Award, Susquehanna University, 2016
Joel L. Cunningham Service-Learning Faculty Member of the Year Award, Susquehanna University, 2016
Susquehanna University Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2008
Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership honor society) Faculty Member of the Year Award, Susquehanna University, 2007
Graduate Student Prize, American Philosophical Association (APA)-Pacific Division, 2001
W. Preston Warren Prize for Excellence in the Study of Philosophy, Bucknell University, 1998
Herbert Goodman Barrows Prize for Excellence in the Study of Greek Language and Literature, Bucknell University, 1998

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

Plato and the Body: Reconsidering Socratic Asceticism, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, 2018

ARTICLES

"Plato on Food and Necessary and Unnecessary Appetites in the Republic," Odysseys of Plates and Palates: Food, Society, and Sociality, eds. Simeon S. Magliveras and Catherine Gallin. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press (2015), 23-30.
"Plato on Philosophy and the Physical in the Phaedo and Symposium," The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, vol. 1, ed. Henry Frendo, Malta: University of Malta Press (2010): 483-488.

"To 'Graze Freely in the Pastures of Philosophy': The Political Motives and Pedagogical Methods of Socrates and the Sophists," Polis 27; 1 (2010): 80-110.

"Plato's Science of Living Well," Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy, ed. Ann Ward. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield (2009), 35-44. Also available in Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (CD-ROM, 2008).

"Seducing Socrates and Resolving Plato's Separate Soul Paradox," Socrates: Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity, ed. Ann Ward. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press (2007), 30-44.

"Plato on Hypothesis, Proportion, and the Education of Philosophers," Auslegung 29; 1 (2007): 45-69. "The Pre-Critical Roots of Kant's Compatibilism," Philosophy and Theology 19; 1 (2007): 197-213.

"The Pre-Critical Roots of KAnt's Compatibilism," Philosophy and Theology 19; 1 (2007): 197-213.

"Determined but Free: Aquinas's Compatibilist Theory of Freedom," Philosophy and Theology 16; 1 (2004): 25-44.

"Care of the Soul: Protagoras' Antilogic, Virtue, and Rhetoric," Eidos 11 (1998): 68-84.

BOOK REVIEWS

Chad Jorgenson, The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Ancient Philosophy, forthcoming.

Roslyn Weiss, Philosophers in the Republic: Plato's Two Paradigms (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012). Philosophy in Review 35; 1 (2015): 50-52.

J. Angelo Corlett, Interpreting Plato's Dialogues (Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2005). Journal of the History of Philosophy 45; 3 (2007): 486-7.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Pedagogy Innovation Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Susquehanna University, 2016, 2017

Grant for Student Summer Research Assistantship, Susquehanna University, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

Fellow, The Aspen Institute Faculty Seminar on "Citizenship and the American Polity" at Wye River, 2007

University Research Grant, Faculty Research and Development Committee, Susquehanna University, 2006-2007

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Arthur Blank Foundation Research Grant, 2003

American Philosophical Association (APA) Fellowship for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Teaching Seminar for Advanced Graduate Students, 2002

Research Fellowship from the Program for Undergraduate Research, Bucknell University, 1997

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Scholarship, 1994-1995