I joined The Colorado College faculty in 2004 as an ongoing visitor, teaching philosophy, general studies, and history. In 2007, I became a regular part-time member of the Philosophy Department. In the Philosophy, I offer several courses in the area of social and political philosophy. In addition, I regularly teach courses in General Studies (particularly Freedom and Authority), and on occasion in History. I also cross-list courses with Feminist and Gender Studies and American Cultural Studies.

As suggested by my teaching, my background and interests cross the disciplines, though the focus of my work is political philosophy broadly conceived. My masters and doctorate were in political science, with an emphasis on political theory, comparative analysis, and European politics. Following graduate school, I moved among the disciplines, holding appointments in political science, historical studies, philosophy and general studies, and English at several leading colleges and universities.

I recently completed editing a special issue of the journal, Historical Reflections / Réflections Historiques, on “Histories of Resistance.” The issue, to be published in the summer of 2008, will include an essay of mine, "Philosophy and Politics of Résistance in Early Modern France," on the history and meaning of the right of resistance, as enunciated in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. In 2003, I also published “Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics” in The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, ed. Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody (Duke University Press, 2003); and I have delivered many papers on the French existential philosophy and politics, the French Resistance, and the politics of identity. I hope to complete work soon on a book manuscript that investigates changing conceptions of resistance, identity, and politics in French and American thought from the early modern period to the present.

I also serve as Executive Co-Director and Webmaster of the Association for Political Theory, an interdisciplinary professional organization that I co-founded in 2000; and as Vice President of the Colorado College chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Blocks 1-2:

GS 101: Freedom and Authority

Blocks 1-4:

PH 435: Advanced Research

Half Block:

PH 455: Senior Thesis

Blocks 5-6:

PH 241: History of Social & Political Philosophy