My main current project builds on my dissertation (defended in 2022). There, I examine the metaphysical systems of Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) and Anne Conway (1631-1679), two early modern women philosophers whose panpsychist, vital materialist systems stand as attractive alternatives to some of the more familiar responses to the mind-body problems of the seventeenth century. By attending to the similarities and differences between their views in context, I expose a little-noticed tendency in seventeenth-century thought that includes such thinkers as the physician Francis Glisson (1597-1677) and the poet John Milton (1608-1674). I am now developing a book proposal based on this work and pursuing related projects about early modern English Platonism and Anne Conway’s normative philosophy.

I maintain active research and teaching interests in other understudied areas of philosophy’s history, especially late-medieval/early modern mysticism. In addition, I like to think about the philosophy of art, varieties of monism, and panpsychism (historical and otherwise).

For fun, I have produced and hosted scholarly podcasts. I studied art as an undergraduate and maintain a painting and ceramic sculpture practice. And I love yoga, walking, and music (mainly post-punk/coldwave/minimal wave, early classical, ambient, and experimental genres).