Curriculum vitae

Academic Positions

University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), Department of Philosophy

Professor (2022–present)

Associate Professor (2019–2022)

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), Department of Philosophy

Associate Professor (2018–2019)

Assistant Professor (2013–2018)

Education

Yale University (New Haven, CT), 2008–2013

PhD (2013), with distinction

Dissertation: “Finite Minds as Little Gods: Leibniz on Final Causation and Freedom”

Committee: Michael Della Rocca (advisor), John Hare (co-advisor), Kenneth Winkler, Tad Schmaltz

M.Phil (2011); M.A. (2010)

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany), 2002–2008

M.A. (2008), Philosophy and American Studies

University of Reading (Reading, England), visiting student, 2006–2007

Hope College (Holland, MI), German teaching assistant and visiting student, 2004–2005

Areas

Area of Specialization:          Early Modern Philosophy

Areas of Competence:          Philosophy of Religion

Publications

a) Books

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024).

Powers: A History (edited by Julia Jorati), Oxford University Press 2021.

Leibniz on Causation and Agency (monograph), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Reviewed by:

Donald Rutherford, Leibniz Review 27 (2017), 183–97

Marc Bobro, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.12.16 (2017)

Christian Leduc, Archives de philosophie 81.4 (2018), 632–34

Joseph Anderson, Journal of the History of Philosophy 57.1 (2019), 171–72

Ansgar Lyssy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28.4 (2020), 845–47

b) Journal articles

“The Effects of Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments,” forthcoming in special issue of Journal of Modern Philosophy, ed. Julie Walsh and John Harfouch.

“The Guise of the Good in Leibniz,” Philosophical Explorations 24.1 (2021), 48–62. [special issue: The Modern Guise of the Good 1650–1950]

“Leibniz on Slavery and the Ownership of Human Beings,” Journal of Modern Philosophy 1.10 (2019): 1–18, DOI: http://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.45

“Du Châtelet on Freedom, Self-Motion, and Moral Necessity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 57.2 (2019), 255–80. DOI: doi:10.1353/hph.2019.0025.

“Leibniz’s Ontology of Force,” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 8 (2019), 189–224. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829294.003.0007.

“The Contingency of Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles,” Ergo 4.31 (2017), 899–929. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0004.031.

“Three Types of Spontaneity and Teleology in Leibniz,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 53.4 (2015), 669–98. DOI: doi:10.1353/hph.2015.0082.

“Leibniz on Causation—Part 1,” Philosophy Compass 10.6 (2015), 389–97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12237

“Leibniz on Causation—Part 2,” Philosophy Compass 10.6 (2015), 398–405. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12230

“Leibniz’s Twofold Gap between Moral Knowledge and Motivation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22.4 (2014), 748–66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.958814

“Monadic Teleology without Goodness and without God,” The Leibniz Review 23 (2013), 43–72. DOI: 10.5840/leibniz2013234

“Leibniz on Concurrence, Spontaneity, and Authorship,” The Modern Schoolman 88.3–4 (2011), 267–97. [published under ‘Julia von Bodelschwingh’] DOI: 10.5840/schoolman2011883/416

c) Chapters in edited volumes

“Debates about Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy: Natural Slavery, Circumstantial Slavery, Transatlantic Slavery,” forthcoming in The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Jack Stetter and Stephen Howard.

“Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy,” Rethinking the Value of Humanity, ed. Sarah Buss and L. Nandi Theunissen, 97–126. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

“Leibniz on Divine Causation: Continuous Creation and Concurrence Without Occasionalism,” Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation, ed. Greg Ganssle, 122–140. New York: Routledge, 2022.

“Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz,” Free Will: Historical and Analytic Perspectives, ed. Marco Hausmann and Jörg Noller, 165–202. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

“The Correspondence with Arnauld,” Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings, eds. P. Lodge and L. Strickland, 80–100. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

“Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz,” Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, eds. D. Perler and S. Bender, 252–73. New York: Routledge, 2020.

“Leibniz on Appetitions and Desires,” History of the Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 4: Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, ed. R. Copenhaver, 245–65. New York: Routledge, 2018.

“Gottfried Leibniz [on Free Will],” The Routledge Companion to Free Will, eds. K. Timpe, M. Griffith and N. Levy, 293–302. New York: Routledge, 2017.

“Divine Faculties and the Puzzle of Incompossibility,” Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds, eds. G. Brown and Y. Chiek, 175–99. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.

“Why Monads Need Appetites,” ‘Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer’: Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses Hannover, 18.–23. Juli 2016, ed. W. Li. Vol. 5, 121–29. Hildesheim: Olms, 2016.

d) Encyclopedia entries and discussion pieces

“Newton and Leibniz,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe, 1477–82. Cham: Springer, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_110-1

“Teleology in Early Modern Philosophy and Science,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe, 2066–77. Cham: Springer, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_546-1

“Response to Donald Rutherford,” Leibniz Review 27 (2017): 199–208. DOI: 10.5840/leibniz20172712

“Gottfried Leibniz: Philosophy of Mind.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/lei-mind/

e) Book reviews

“Larry Jorgensen, Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind,” Philosophical Review 130.3 (2021), 455–58.

“Richard Arthur, Monads, Composition, and Force,” Mind 129.514 (2020), 664–73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzz040

“Stephen Voss (ed. and transl.), The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 56:4 (2018), 757–58. DOI: doi:10.1353/hph.2018.0083.

“Adrian Nita (ed.), Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity and Transformation,” in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.10.12.

“Michael V. Griffin, Leibniz, God and Necessity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 52.1 (2014), 172–73. DOI: doi:10.1353/hph.2014.0011.

f) Translations

Du Châtelet, Émilie, “On Freedom.” Translated by Julia Jorati. Project Vox. Durham, NC: Duke University Libraries, 2021. Available here.

Work in Progress

“The Association of Slavery and Blackness in Early Modern Philosophy,” commissioned for Out of Sight: Slavery in Modern European Philosophy, ed. Jamila Mascat and Lucie Mercier

“Life of the Mind in Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish,” commissioned for Life of the Mind in the History of Philosophy, ed. Katharina Kraus and Stephen Ogden

Presentations

a)    Conferences and Invited Talks

“The Effects of Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments,” Benedict Workshop, Boston University, Boston, MA (November 2023)

“The Effects of Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments,” University of Toronto Colloquium, Toronto, Canada (October 2023)

“The Effects of Slavery on the Enslaved: Debates in 18th-Century Philosophy,” Annual Philosophy Speaker Series, Union College, Schenectady, NY (October 2023)

“Early Modern Theories of Racism,” Speaker Series Lecture, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada (April 2023)

“How I teach Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy,” invited talk at Summer Program of the Center for Canon Expansion and Change, University of Minnesota (August 2022, online)

“Teleology and the Mind-Body Union in Early Modern Theories of Slavery,” invited talk at workshop Teleology, Mechanism and the Mind-Body Problem between Leibniz and Kant (May 2022, online)

“Teaching Through Texts,” invited member of Panel, The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) Conference (May 2022, online)

“Early Modern Theories of Racism,” keynote at NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy (May 2022, online)

Responses to critics, at manuscript workshop for my book project Slavery and Race, Harvard University (April 2022)

“Teaching about Slavery in Philosophy Courses,” APA Teaching Hub, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL (February 2022)

“Early Modern Theories of Racism,” invited talk at Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, Keele University, England (October 2021, online)

“The Effects of Slavery in American Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Writings,” invited talk at University of Cape Town Philosophy Seminar, South Africa (September 2021, online)

“Pufendorf and Rutherforth on Natural Slavery,” Virtual Early Modern Philosophy Workshop (July 2021, online)

“Capitein on Natural Slavery and Human Equality,” Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (July 2021, online)

“Natural Inequality and Natural Slavery: Felden and Leibniz,” colloquium at Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Human Abilities,” Berlin, Germany (April 2021, online)

“Natural Law and Natural Slavery in Suárez, Hobbes, and Pufendorf,” internal colloquium at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (February 2021, online)

“Aristotelian Natural Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy: Suárez, Leibniz, and Cugoano,” invited talk at UCSD History of Philosophy Roundtable. San Diego, CA (November 2020, online)

“Aristotelian Natural Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy: Suárez, Leibniz, and Cugoano,” invited talk at symposium Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto (October 2020, online)

[Title TBD], keynote at New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, RI (postponed or cancelled; originally scheduled for October 2020)

“Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz,” Virtual Early Modern Philosophy Workshop (May 2020, online)

“A Thematic Approach to Early Modern Survey Courses,” invited talk in the session Challenges of Teaching the History of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL (February 2020)

“Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy,” invited talk at the Yale Society for Early Modern Philosophy. New Haven, CT (January 2020)

“The Guise of the Good in Leibniz,” Leibniz Society of North America Group Session, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA (January 2020)

“Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life,” The AAPT–APA Teaching Hub, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA (January 2020)

“The Role of God in Leibniz’s Ethics,” invited talk at Theistic Ethics Workshop. Georgetown University, Washington, DC (October 2019)

“Leibnizian Agency and the Importance of Teleology for the Directionality of Time,” Agency, Past and Future. University of Hamburg, Germany (July 2019)

“Leibniz’s Argument against Slavery,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America. Emory University, Atlanta, GA (May 2019)

“’Parts asleep in the abyss of things’: Leibniz’s Regress Argument against Cartesianism,” invited talk at conference: Regress Arguments. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (May 2019)

“Leibniz on Embodied Cognition and the Imagination”

  • Department colloquium. University of Colorado, Boulder (February 2019)
  • Invited talk at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (January 2019)
  • Invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (January 2019)
  • Invited talk at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (January 2019)
  • Invited talk at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (December 2018)

“A Historical Case for Asymmetrical Freedom,” department colloquium. University of Nebraska, Lincoln (November 2018)

“Close Cousins: Leibniz and Clarke on Freedom,” LSNA/SELLF Congress. University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada (October 2018)

“Leibniz on Teleology: Thomism with a Twist,” invited lecture at Summer School, The Challenge of Natural Teleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin. University of Groningen, Netherlands (July 2018)

“Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz,” Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy. Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (June 2018)

“Leibniz’s Embodied Mind,” invited talk at conference: Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern Period. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 2018)

“Author’s Response,” Book Symposium on Leibniz on Causation and Agency, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. San Diego, CA (March 2018)

“Leibniz on Teleology: Thomism with a Twist,” department colloquium. Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel (December 2017)

“Embodied and Disembodied Cognition in Leibniz,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America. University of Toronto, Canada (October 2017)

“Du Châtelet on Freedom, Self-Motion, and Moral Necessity,” Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (August 2017)

“Embodied and Disembodied Cognition in Leibniz,” invited talk at conference: Nature, Mind, and Action in Leibniz. University of Turku, Finland (June 2017)

“Emilie du Châtelet’s Agent-Causal Compatibilist Theory of Freedom,” Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. University of Turku, Finland (May 2017)

“Das Theodizeeproblem und die menschliche Freiheit in Leibniz’ Theodizee” [“The Problem of Evil and Human Freedom in Leibniz’s Theodicy”], department colloquium. University of Erlangen, Germany (December 2016)

“The Contingency of the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America. University of Houston, TX (November 2016)

“Why Monads Need Appetites,” International Leibniz Congress. Hanover, Germany (July 2016)

“How to be More Spontaneous: Leibniz on the Best Type of Agency,” invited talk at conference: Activity, Spontaneity and Agency in Later Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto, Canada (June 2016)

“Leibniz’s Dispositions,” New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy. Yale University, New Haven, CT (May 2016)

“Leibnizian Bondage and Contemporary Philosophy of Action,” The Spinoza-Leibniz Workshop. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (April 2016)

“Early Modern vs. Medieval Anonymity,” Society for Modern Philosophy Group Session at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. San Francisco, CA (March 2016)

“Leibniz on the Permanent and Temporary Dispositions of Monads,” invited talk at conference: Exploring Dispositions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (March 2016)

“If God is Good, Why is the World Filled with Evil?” Community Lecture Series of the Center for the Study of Religion. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (March 2016)

“Leibniz’s Philosophy of Action,” department colloquium. Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (December 2015)

“Leibniz’s Departure from Thomism: Substantial Forms and Teleology,” NEH Summer Institute ‘Between Medieval and Modern: Philosophy from 1300–1700.’ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (July 2015)

“Leibniz on the Contingency of Free Actions,” Workshop of the Mentoring Project for Pre-Tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (June 2015)

“Conservation and Persistence,” Invited Symposium at American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. St. Louis, MO (February 2015)

“Leibnizian Contingency and the Precipice of Spinozism,” The Spinoza-Leibniz Workshop. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (January 2015)

“Special Agents: Leibniz on the Similarity between Human and Divine Agency,” invited talk at Baylor-Georgetown-Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Conference. Georgetown University, Washington, DC (October 2014)

“Leibnizian Contingency and the Precipice of Spinozism,” Midwest Early Modern Philosophy Conference. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (September 2014)

“Leibniz and the Humean Gap between Knowledge and Motivation,” Sentiment and Reason in Early Modern Ethics. State University of New York, Buffalo, NY (March 2014)

“Master in My Own Domain: Leibniz on Voluntary Agency,” Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (February 2014)

“Master in My Own Domain: Leibniz on Voluntary Agency,” department colloquium. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (January 2014)

“The Role of Control, Spontaneity, and Teleology in Leibniz’s Theory of Freedom,” invited talk at Scientia Workshop. University of California, Irvine, CA (December 2013)

“Three Types of Spontaneity, Teleology, and Monadic Actions,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America. Yale University, New Haven, CT (October 2013)

“Leibnizian Spontaneity and Teleology,” Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium. Washington and Lee University, Washington, PA (September 2013)

“It Seemed Best at the Time: Leibniz on Goodness and Teleology”

  • Invited talk at the University of California, Riverside, CA (February 2013)
  • Invited talk at Loyola University, Chicago, IL (January 2013)
  • Invited talk at Georgetown University, Washington, DC (January 2013)
  • Invited talk at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (January 2013)
  • Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America, Montreal, Canada (October 2012)
  • Yale Leibniz Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT (October 2012)

“Leibniz on Spontaneity and Teleology: Some Interesting Connections,” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Atlanta, GA (December 2012)

“Final Causation, Formal Causation, Agent Causation: Leibniz on Divine Concurrence,” Summer School ‘Minds: Human and Divine.’ Munich, Germany (July 2012)

“‘Morally speaking’: The Puzzle of Cartesian Compatibilism,” New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy. Fordham University, New York, NY (November 2011)

“Final Causation and the Fundamental Difference between Free and Unfree Actions in Leibniz,” Quebec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada (September 2011)

“Christians as Model Citizens in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan,” Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. Bristol, England (July 2007)

b)    Commentary

Comments on James Mackey, “Leibniz and the Problem of Personal Identity,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America, Online (November 2021)

Comments on Jen Nguyen, “Leibnizian Distance,” Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America, Online (December 2020)

Comments on Eduardo Mendieta’s “Decolonizing Philosophy: A Latinx Perspective,” Colloquium talk at Ohio State. Columbus, OH (February 2018)

Comments on Matthew Homan’s “True Beings of Reason in Spinoza,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2016)

Comments on Sabrina Ebbersmeyer’s “Leibniz on the Dynamics of the Human Mind,” Yale Society for Early Modern Philosophy (November 2012)

Comments on Marleen Rozemond’s “Real Distinction, Separability, and Corporeal Substance in Descartes,” Yale Society for Early Modern Philosophy (October 2011)

Comments on Donald Baxter’s “Hume’s Account of Duration: An Empiricist Successor to Descartes’s,” Yale Society for Early Modern Philosophy (January 2010)

c)    Funded Participation in Workshops

Teleology within Physics? Optimization Principles from Leibniz to the Modern Day. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2017)

Kant and Leibniz on Substance. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 2016)

Leibniz’s Theodicy: Reception and Relevance. Lisbon, Portugal (October 2012)

Logos Workshop. Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame, IN (May 2012)

Languages

German (native)

French (reading)

Latin (reading)

Professional Service (selection)

Area editor, Ergo: An Open-Access Journal of Philosophy (2023–present)

Co-director of UMass Center for Philosophy and Children (2022–present)

Co-organizer of Leibniz Society of North America annual conference (2023)

Co-organizer of “Reappearing Ink: A Conference Celebrating the Legacy of Eileen O’Neill” (Amherst, 2023)

Chair of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession and member of the APA’s board of officers (March 2022–June 2025)

Member of the 2024 and 2025 Eastern Division APA Program Committee (2023–2025)

Associate Chair of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession (July 2021–March 2022)

Book Review Editor, Leibniz Review (2018–present)

Editor of the PhilPapers category “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz” (2017–present)

Series co-editor for book series “Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy” (MEMP), Schwabe Verlag (2017–present)

Secretary-Treasurer of the Leibniz Society of North America (2016–2024)

Organizer of workshop “The History of Powers” (2019)

Assistant to the editor of the Leibniz Review, handling book reviews (2016–2018)

Mentor for Job Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy (2015–2018)

Co-organizer of the Midwest Seminar in Modern Philosophy (2017)

Member of the 2017 Central Division APA Program Committee (2016–2017)

Organizer of Leibniz Society of North America annual conference (2015)

Co-organizer of the Yale Leibniz Workshop (2012)

Co-organizer and co-founder of MAP, the Yale Minorities and Philosophy Working Group (September 2010–May 2013)

Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

Co-PI, NEH Chair’s Grant ($18,000) for Question Everything: A Summer Philosophy Program (May 2023)

Co-PI, Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom Grant ($250,000) for “Question Everything: A Summer Philosophy Program” (November 2022)

Healey Endowment Grant / Faculty Research Grant ($15,058) for “Philosophical Debates about Slavery 1600–1800” (June 2022)

UMass Public Service Endowment Grant ($15,000) for “Question Everything: A Summer Program” (May 2022)

Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Human Abilities,” Berlin (Germany), one-semester residential fellowship, Spring 2021

PI, Mass Humanities Grant ($15,000) for “Question Everything: A Summer Philosophy Program” (April 2020)

Funded Participant in summer seminar on Leibniz’s philosophy of law at the Institute of the History of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (May 2019)

Funded participant in NEH Summer Institute “Reviving Philosophy as a Way of Life” in Middletown, CT (July 2018)

Funded participant in Intensive Seminar “New Narratives in the History of Philosophy” at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC (June 2018)

Team member for Connect and Collaborate grant for OSU’s philosophy high school summer camp. Ohio State (2018–2019)

Winner of the Marc Sanders Prize in Early Modern Philosophy (November 2016)

Funded participant in Leibniz Summer School, Leipzig, Germany (July 2016)

Course development grant for the service learning course “Teaching Philosophy in High Schools,” College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University (2016)

Funded participant in NEH Summer Institute “Between Medieval and Modern: Philosophy from 1300–1700” in Boulder, CO (July 2015)

Winner of the Leibniz Society of North America Essay Competition (2013)

Whiting-Leylan Fellowship, Yale University (2012–2013)

Funded participant in summer school “Minds: Human and Divine,” Institute for Philosophy of Religion, Munich, Germany (July–August 2012)

Graduate Essay Prize on the Problem of Evil, Center for Philosophy of Religion and the John Templeton Foundation (September 2010)

Funded participant in “Templeton Summer Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy of Religion: Evil in Early Modern Thought” (June 2010)

Stuart Harrison Fellowship, Yale University (2008–2009)