I am Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH, where am Chair of the Philolosophy Department. I have also served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Director the Philosophy, Politics, and the Public Honors Program. 

My research focuses on German Idealism and Social and Political Philosophy. My monograph, Recognition and the Self in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Cambridge University Press, 2023), provides a novel account of the relationship between intersubjective recognition and selfhood in G. W. F. Hegel's early masterwork. 

I hold a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University, and a B.Hum. in Humanities from the College of Humanities at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.