I received my BA in Philosophy from the University of Montana in 1999 and then
began my PhD work at Northwestern
Currently I am teaching Introduction to Philosophy, The History of Philosophy I (Ancient to Medieval), Plato, and Aristotle. However, I am developing a class on the history of political philosophy. For graduate students, I will periodically be offering classes on specific, classic works of ancient philosophy and on topics that relate directly to my research interests.
My research focuses on the way ancient philosophers understood human beings who were at odds with one another. Currently my work concentrates on Aristotle’s political philosophy, but my long-term goal is to produce a work that will track arguments about interpersonal conflict from the Presocratics to the Stoics. Outside of ancient philosophy, my research interests include virtue theory, republicanism, as well as democratic theory.
Publications
“Delimiting Aristotle’s Conception of Stasis in the Politics” Phronesis (forthcoming)
“Aristotle’s Oligarchs and the Origins of Misguided Elitism” in On Oligarchy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, Tabachnick and Koivukoski, eds.(forthcoming)
“Competition in the Best of Cities: Agonism and Aristotle’s Politics” Political Theory Vol. 37 No.1 (2009)
“Aristotle’s Theory of Partisanship.” Polis Vol. 25 No. 2 (2008)
“Currency, Trade, and Commerce in Plato's Laws.” History of Political Thought Vol.27 No.2 (2006)
Aristotle’s Politics. Critical Essays. Richard Kraut and Steven Skultety eds. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
“Is ‘Part of Justice’ Just at All? Reconsidering Aristotle’s Politics III.9.” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter 6(4) 24-34 (2005)
Reviews
Review of Ronna Burger’s
Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics (
Review of Ronald Weed’s Aristotle on Stasis: A Moral Psychology of Political Conflict (Logos Verlag, 2007) for Bryn Mawr Classical Review (8-18-2008) Available online at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-08-18.html
Review of Ryan Balot’s Greek Political Thought (Blackwell, 2006) for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (6-16-2007) Available online at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10103
Review of Jill Frank’s A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the
Work of Politics (
In Progress
“Disputes of the Phronimoi: Aristotle on the Limits of Legal and Political Disagreement”
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