Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Virginia

My research spans political philosophy and aesthetics, focusing on how place shapes the conditions of agency and experience. In political philosophy, this orients my work on displacement and the home and homemaking, examining what these reveal about political agency. In aesthetics, my dissertation argues for the rehabilitation of taste as a genuine aesthetic sense, developing an account of gustatory aesthetic perception as trained, attention-governed, and socially embedded in a world of objects whose aesthetic properties are genuinely there to be perceived.

For more information regarding my current research projects, please see my research page.