About
Since January 2022, I have been the the Publications Coordinator for the American Academy of Religion, where I primarily work on AAR’s book review website, Reading Religion, editing reviews and managing our database of books, authors, reviewers, and publishers. From October 2023 to July 2025, I was also a postdoctoral researcher in theological ethics at the University of Vienna. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University, where I have a pending EUR 450,000 Austrian Science Fund proposal titled "The Fullness of Time: Effective Altruism, Theological Ethics, and Our Obligation to the Future." I received my PhD in religion from the University of Virginia in August 2022.
My academic work is at the intersection of ethics, philosophy, and religion, especially in the American and European contexts. I am particularly interested in how our most basic philosophical and theological commitments influence the way we approach political and ethical problems. My dissertation focused more narrowly on the concept of contingency and explores the moral and political implications of the claim that the world is subject to contingent events - in theological terms, events that fall outside of God’s causal purview. The affirmation or denial of this claim is at the bedrock of historical and contemporary theological debates. A "fallen" world is best understood as a world beset by contingency, and in such a world moral purity and political harmony are ideals we can strive for, but never fully reach. My revised dissertation is currently under review by publishers.
During my time as a PhD student, I was a teaching fellow in American Studies at TU Dortmund in Germany (2020-2021). I also managed the website and social media accounts for the Religion and Its Publics Project, and edited their blog The Square (2018-2022). I have also produced a few audio documentaries for the Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab at UVA, and served as the co-project manager of a grant the Lab received from the the Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs (2020-2021).
Before starting my PhD at UVa, I did an MA in Theology and Religion at Durham University. As an undergraduate, I studied philosophy and English literature at the University of Colorado. My academic work has appeared in the Journal of Religious Ethics, American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, Modern Theology, and the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. I have also written public-facing work for the Washington Post, Haaretz, Index on Censorship, Political Theology Network, and the Virginian-Pilot, among other publications.