I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024 and my B.A. at Michigan State University in 2017. I was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia in fall 2022. I co-organized Metaphysics in the Blue Ridge at Virginia Tech in summer 2025.

I work in metaphysics, value theory, and the philosophy of language on issues related to identity and distinctness. My paper "The Identity of Necessary Indiscernibles" develops and defends novel general metaphysical explanations of identity and distinctness facts. It is forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint. In other work, I explore issues related to identity, such as what makes survival distinctively and first-personally valuable (see "What Matters in Personal Transformations") and issues that arise due to differences between the granularity of our representations of the world and the granularity of the world itself (see "What Counts in Counting").

I also have active philosophical interests that aren't well represented by my present CV. I draw on insights from feminist philosophy, critical theory, and non-Western philosophy in my work. In non-Western philosophy, I have special interest in the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi and two schools of Hindu philosophy: Sāṃkhya and Vaiśeṣika. My future research includes projects that directly focus on these areas. 

I believe games can be fun and pedagogically rich teaching tools that also help create an inclusive classroom, especially for neurodivergent students (https://stimpunks.org/gaming/). To promote the use of games in philosophical pedagogy, I have created a list of games for teaching philosophy.