Per Caritatem

Academic History

University of North Florida

• Bachelor of Music, Jazz Studies
• Jacksonville, FL
• Graduated magna cum laude

University of Dallas

• M.A. Philosophy (August, 2006)
• PhD Candidate, philosophy (2006-present)
• Irving, TX

Westminster Theological Seminary

• M.A. Religion (May, 2005)
• Philadelphia, PA
• Graduated summa cum laude.

Moscow State University

• Advanced Language Studies
• Moscow, Russia
• I studied Russian at MSU (intensive language program for international students) for 6 months and with a private tutor for 3 years while living in Moscow.

Portland State University

• Advanced Language Studies
• Portland, OR

Courses Taught

Eastfield College, 2005-present

• Introduction to Western Philosophy
• History and Literature of the Bible

University of Dallas

• Philosophy of the Human Person (Fall 2008)
• Philosophy and the Ethical Life (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
• Philosophy of Being (Spring 2010)

Non-credit Continuing Education Courses

• Augustine’s Confessions (books I-IX, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Summer 08)
• From Modernism to Postmodernism (Redeemer Seminary, Summer 09)

Languages

• Biblical Hebrew
• French
• German
• Koine Greek
• Latin
• Russian

Awards

McDermott Fellowship in Philosophy

University of Dallas, 2007

Edwin L. Jones Graduate Fellowship

Westminster Theological Seminary, 2005-2006

Graduate Fellowship

University of Texas (Arlington), 2004-2005

Full-tuition Scholarship

Westminster Theological Seminary, 2002-2005

Various Undergraduate Music Scholarships

Northlake College, University of Texas (Arlington), University of North Florida, 1989-1994

Papers Presented & Published Works

15^th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture hosted by St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University

Michel Foucault and Frederick Douglass on Power Relations and Resistance Strategies “From Below”
Date: September 2010

Villanova Conference Center:  35th Annual Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference

St. Augustine and Frederick Douglass:  Counternarratives from the Underside as a Mode of Resistance and Confessio
Date:  October 2010

North Texas Philosophical Association, Annual Conference 2010

“Phenomenological Reflections on Music as Performed:  Embracing Continua and Deconstructing Dichotomies”
Date:  April 2010

National Council for Black Studies, 34th Annual Conference

“Fanon and the Quest for a Phenomenology That Saves Difference”
Date:  March 2010

Article

“What Has Coltrane to Do With Mozart:  The Dynamism and Built-In Flexibility of Music,” Expositions Vol 3 No 1 (August 2009):  57-71.

Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting

“Paul and Slavery:  Submit, Subvert or Something In-Between?”
Date:  Nov. 2009

Review

Jeremy S. Begbie.  Resounding Truth:  Christian Wisdom in the World of Music.  Grand Rapids:  Baker Academic, 2007. (American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84:1 (Winter 2010):  166-68.

Article

“St. Augustine on Text and Reality (and a Little Gadamarian Spice),” Heythrop Journal Vol 50 issue 1 (Jan 09): 98-108.

Villanova Conference Center:  33^rd Annual Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference

“Scotus and the Will as a Self-Determining Active Power”
Date: Oct, 2008

Review

Edward T. Oakes (ed.).  The Cambridge Companion to Hans urs Von Balthasar.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.  American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82:2 (Spring 2008):  374-378.

Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Friendship:  Quests for Character, Community and Truth

“A Glimpse at Christocentric Friendship in the Heartbeat of Hans Urs von Balthasar”
Date:  Oct, 2007

Villanova Conference Center:  Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference

“St. Augustine on Text and Reality (and a Little Gadamerian Spice)”
Date: Oct, 2007

University of Dallas:  IPS Colloquium

“Hermeneutical Continuities Between Augustine and Hans-Georg Gadamer”
Date:  Oct, 2007

Review

Louis Dupré.  The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.  (Philotheos 6, 2006).

Midwest Regional Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Notre Dame)

“Does God’s Incomprehensibility Combined with Human Finitude (and Fallen-ness) Make Reasonable (a qualified) Fideism and a Certain Kind of Defeat Immunity?”
Date: 2006

Review

James K.A. Smith. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.  American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80:4 (Fall 2006):  642-646.

Baylor University; “The World and Christian Imagination”

The Anti-Enlightenment Nature of Jazz: Embracing Particularity and Universality, Freedom and Form, Tension and Resolution
Date: Fall, 2006

Midwest Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Lincoln Christian College)

“Plantinga’s Construal of Calvin’s Sensus Divinitatis”
Date: Spring, 2005

Review

Jean-Luc Marion. Being Given. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. 
(Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 5 (2005), http://www.ArsDisputandi.org. ISSN 1566-5399).

Review

James K.A. Smith. Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004. (Christian Scholar’s Review, Number 1, Vol. XXXV, Fall 2005).

Texas State University Philosophy Symposium

“A Fresh Look at Newton’s Laws”
Date: Spring, 2004

Societies & Associations

• American Academy of Religion
• American Catholic Philosophical Association
• National Council for Black Studies
• North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics
• North American Society for Social Philosophy
• North Texas Philosophical Association
• Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Research Interests

Philosophy/Phenomenology of Race, Philosophical and Biblical Hermeneutics, Social and Cultural Criticism, Postmodern Philosophy, Michel Foucault, Augustine

Career Goals

Upon completing my terminal degree, I hope to secure a tenure-track teaching position, continue to publish, and mentor  students.

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