I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. My work in the history of philosophy focuses on the Graeco-Roman as well as Islamo-Arabic traditions. 

I am completing a book on the history of appeals to nature as a source of normative authority, tentatively entitled Ethics and the Appeal to Nature, under contract with Oxford University Press. Other areas of current research include conceptions of love and desire as they figure in metaphysical, cosmological, and theological contexts in classical and post-classical Islamic philosophy.

I also write essays and criticism for non-academic audiences, as well as poetry and fiction—see here for more.

I received my PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2020. In 2019-20, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics.

Articles

• “Ibn Sina on Divine Love,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, forthcoming. (Advance PDF)

• “Aristotle in Love,” Ancient Philosophy, 2026.

• “Aristotle in Egypt,” in Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle, eds. Patricia Marechal and John Prois. Oxford University Press, 2026.

• “Ibn Sina, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Λ 6-10,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2025.

• “Just Kidding,” in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*,  eds. Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler. Routledge, 2023.

• “Aristotle on Comparison,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2022.

• “Introduction” and “Foreground and Background” in Racial Inequality During a Pandemic, C4E @ UofT Ethics in Context,  2020.

• “Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2019.

• “Four Types of Racism,” in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and the US, Oxford University Press, 2018. 

In progress

• Ethics and the Appeal to Nature, on the history of appeals to nature as source of normative authority, under contract with Oxford University Press. (Anticipated for completion summer 2026)

• Papers under review on Ibn Sina's account of pleasure; the politics of modern scholarship on Islamic philosophy and “mysticism”; the possibility of immorality in non-human animals

• A translation and critical edition of Ibn Sina's poem al-Jumāna al-Ilāhiyya (“the Divine Pearl”)

Videos of talks

• “Black health matters: Racism and protest in a pandemic,” (conversation with Yolonda Wilson), June 2020.

• “Racial inequality during a pandemic,” (roundtable with Korey Garibaldi and Yolonda Wilson), May 2020.

• “Philosophers as pundits,” (with Gal Katz), April 2020.

• “Aristotle and the ethics of nature,” October 2019.