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• “Kierkegaard and Moral Particularism,” in The Kierkegaardian Mind, ed. Patrick Stokes,
• Eleanor Helms, and Adam Buben, Routledge (in progress) “Augustine and Kierkegaard on Time,” in Augustine and Kierkegaard, ed. Kim Paffenroth, Helene Russell, and John Doody, Lexington Books (submitted)
• “Kierkegaard,” with C. Stephen Evans, in Blackwell Companion to 19th Century Philosophy, Ed. John Shand, Wiley Blackwell (submitted)
• “Fideism,” with C. Stephen Evans, in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, Ed. Steward Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (submitted)
• “William James’s Pragmatic Pluralism and the American University’s Loss of Soul,” in Stewards of the Academy, Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming 2018
• “Why we need a vacation,” Traveling Well, Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics, p. 11-18. 2016.

Book Review

• Review of Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood: The Art of Subjectivity by Peder Jothen, in The Heythrop Journal, 58 (4): 702-703. 2017.

Selected Presentations

• “Purging the ‘Problem Problem’ using Dante’s Purgatorio” Association for Core Texts and
  Course Twenty-third Annual Conference, April 2017
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• “Learning about temporality from the Lily and the Bird: Kierkegaard on our
  attitudes towards time,” Soren Kierkegaard Society at the American
  Philosophical Association Central Division, March 2016
• “Can the single individual be a team player?: Kierkegaard on the role of
  community in sports,” The Spirit of Sports, Baylor University, November 2015
• “Kierkegaard’s Revision of the Aristotelian Virtue of Courage,” American
  Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 2014
• “Towards a Kierkegaardian Metaphysics,” Kierkegaard and the Present Age, Brigham
  Young University, November 2013
• “Teaching Kierkegaard’s Timely Virtues,” Virtues, Vices, and Teaching, Calvin
  College, October 2013
• “Kierkegaardian Courage,” Seventh International Kierkegaard Conference, St. Olaf
  College, June 2013
• “Philosophy as Training for Death: The reflexivity of Socratic exhortation in the
  Phaedo,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, October 2012
• “The Fearful and Trembling Bear it Away: Søren Kierkegaard and Flannery O’Connor,”
  Flannery O’Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians, Loyola
  University Chicago, October 2011

• Workshop on Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Fall 2015
• Summer Seminar on Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy, Samford University, Summer 2015
• Teaching Capstone in Higher Education, Baylor University, awarded Spring 2014
• Adjunct Teaching Workshop, Baylor University, Spring 2013

Fellowships and Awards

• Armstrong Browning Library Teaching Fellowship, Spring 2015
• Baylor Kierkegaard Society Workshop, Internal Grant, Spring 2015
• Presidential Scholarship, Baylor University, Fall 2010-Spring 2015
• Summer Research Fellowship, Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Summer 2014
• Conyers Graduate Scholar, Baylor University, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
• Lilly Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2013
• Outstanding Leadership and Service Award, Valparaiso University, 2007
• Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2007
• Phi Sigma Tau, Spring 2005

• American Association of Philosophy Teachers
• American Philosophical Association
• Søren Kierkegaard Society (USA)

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Baylor University, 2016
• M.A. in Philosophy, Boston College, 2010
• B.A. in Philosophy and Humanities, Valparaiso University 2007