Service
Honors Executive Advisory Board, 2024
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion (2013-2023)
Member of Search Committee for Employee Relations Manager (2022)
Co-Chair, Full Time Faculty Evaluation Task Force (2021-2022)
Member of Division Curriculum Committee (2019-2021)
Vice Chair, Academic Branch Council (2020-2021)
Co-Lead, JCCC Faculty Association Negotiations Team (2020-2021)
Member of Search Committee for Full Time Humanities Professor (2021)
Member of Search Committee for Human Resources Investigator (2021)
Member, Shared Governance Task Force (2019-2020)
Speaker, Night at the Nelson (2019-2024)
Past-President, JCCC Faculty Association (2018-2020)
President, JCCC Faculty Association (2016-2018)
Professional Development
Academic Presentations
The Paradox of Wu Wei and Seeking Enlightenment, presented at theNational Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, New Orleans, LA Mar. 7 2023.
Response to Blakely Phillips on Zhuangzi and Gilbert Ryle, Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Feb. 21, 2023.
Transformational Experiences and Parental Authority, Presented at the North American Association for Philosophy and Education Conference, Maudlin Il, October 29, 2023.
La plus ça change: Sydney Hook and Academic Freedom. presented at the New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, June 28, 2023
“Academic Freedom in the Midst of a Culture War”, presented as a College Scholar Talk, Johnson County Community College, April 6, 2023
“Confucianism and China’s ‘Moral Crisis’” , presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, Kansas City, MO March 2023
“Defending Academic Freedom: The Function of the University and Disciplinary Norms”, presented at the National Meeting of the North American Association for Philosophy and Education, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2022.
“Zhuangzi and Disability: A Confucian Response”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, San Diego, CA March 2022, and the Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2022, Chicago IL.
“Academic Freedom and Students”, presented at the North American Association for Philosophy of Education Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2021.
“Zhuangzi and Disability: A Confucian Response”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, San Diego, CA March 2022, and the Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2022, Chicago IL.
“Academic Freedom and Students”, presented at the North American Association for Philosophy of Education Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2021.
“Confucian Intregalism: An Appraisal”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, March 2021
“Judging the Goods of Childhood”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association”, March 2021
“Educational Goods: A Comparative Study”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, Atlanta GA, March 2020.
“In Defense of Religious Education”, presented at the national meeting of the North American Association for the Philosophy of Education”, Chicago IL, October 2019.
“Punishing School Children: A Qualified Defense”, presented at the Mancept Workshops 2019 meeting, University of Manchester, Sept. 2019.
“In Defense of Religious Education”, presented at the 2019 MidSouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, March 2019, Memphis TN, and at the 2019 Meeting of the North American Association for Philosophy and Education, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago IL, Oct. 2019.
“Li and the Political Virtue of Civility”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, March 2019, Nashville TN.
“Homeschooling and the Educational Rights of Children: The Case of Kansas”, presented the Mancept Workshops 2018 meeting, University of Manchester, Sept. 2018.
“Ritual Propriety and Conceptions of Good”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, March 2018, Washington DC.
“Promoting the Intrinsic Goods of Childhood”, presented at Mancept Workshops 2017 meeting, University of Manchester, Sept. 2017.
“Confucian Role Ethics and the Challenge of Gender”, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, Washington DC, March 2016 and at the Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, Indiana University, April 2017.
“Response to Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s ‘The Virtues of Unfulfilled Desire’’”, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, March 2017.
‘Moral Expertise: A Comparative Philosophical Approach’, presented at the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program, March 2017, Portland Oregon.
Publications
Ethics Introduced: Readings in Moral Philosophy, co-edited anthology with Dawn Gale and Omar Conrad, Cognella Publishing, 2018.
“Moral Expertise: A Comparative Philosophical Approach”, in Jamie Carlin Watson and Laura Guidry-Grimes (eds.), Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives, Springer Books, 2018.
Additional Professional Activities
The Chair Academy Leadership Training August 2019 and May 2021
NEH Summer Institute: Self Knowledge East and West, Charleston NC, 2018
Teaching
Course Syllabi and Schedules
Introduction to Philosophy Syllabus
Introduction to Philosophy Schedule
Exams and Assignments
Available by Request