Fields
Philosophy of religion, Christian philosophy, Jewish philosophy, continental philosophy, embodied cognition, philosophy of childhood, critical race theory, gender studies
University Affiliation
Secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy; affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, Center for Bioethics & Health Law, and Global Studies Center
Advisory Board, Office of Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement
Courses Taught at Pitt
- RELGST 0715 / PHIL 0473 - Philosophy of Religion
- RELGST 0760 - Religion and Rationality
- Science & Religion, Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed, Modern & Contemporary Jewish Thought
- RELGST 0770 - Science and Religion
- RELGST 1417 - Philosophy of Race and Religion
- Classics of Christian Thought
- RELGST 1803 - Capstone Seminar
Education & Training
- PhD, Duquesne University
Representative Publications
The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism (editor), Lexington Books, 2021.
“The Embodied Practices of Whiteness: Unpacking One’s White Supremacist Education.” in The Logic of Racial Practice (Lexington, 2021)
Book Review Essay: “Mara H. Benjamin. The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.” Journal of Jewish Identities, 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 127–30.
“What Hand Transplantation Teaches Us about Embodiment,” AMA Journal of Ethics Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Quality of Life in Reconstructive Transplant Ethics” 21, no. 11 (Nov. 2019): E996–1002.
“The Tree of Life: Wisdom in the Aftermath of Terror.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 25, no 1 (2019): 107-20.