About

I am a graduate student at St. John’s College Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I study the history of philosophy and politics. My primary interests include Aristotle’s political thought and natural science, the reception of Greek philosophy in the medieval Islamic world, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, and Hegel, as well as the American Founding and the broader American political tradition. Alongside these, I maintain serious adjacent interests in the history of the conservative movement in Britain and the United States, the Protestant Reformation, the history and sociology of technology, international relations, and computation as a liberal art. The thread running through this work is a commitment to the close reading of political philosophy in the classical sense. My undergraduate formation at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, in English literature, early modern studies, and philosophy, gave me a grounding in continental thought and in the literature of the seventeenth century that continues to inform how I read.

Beyond my studies, I work as an editor in academic and literary publishing.

The Projects page provides an overview of some of my editorial work; the Links page collects resources I have found useful or return to often across the fields named above. You can find some of my essays and scholarly work on the Writing page.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

M.A., Middle Eastern Classics (Focus: Islamic Philosophy), St. John’s College, Santa Fe (May 2027)

M.A., Liberal Arts (Focus: Politics and Society), St. John’s College, Santa Fe (May 2025)

B.A., English Literature (Minors: Philosophy and Early Modern Studies), University of Alabama in Huntsville (December 2020)

Advanced Study

Symposium on the Science of History, Santa Fe Institute (June 2025)
Conveners: Anthony Eagan, Doug Erwin, David Krakauer, Kyle Harper

Symposium on Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, University of Austin (January 2025)
Conveners: Mark Blitz, Devin Stauffer, Christopher Lynch, Christopher Nadon

Institute for Human Ecology Seminar, Hillsdale College DC Campus (March 2022)
Seminar: “The Politics of Competence,” with Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University

T. S. Eliot International Summer School, University College London (July 2019)
Seminar: “Middle Poems and Criticism: From The Waste Land to Ash-Wednesday,” with David E. Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago

Areas of Interest

Ancient philosophy · Jewish and Islamic philosophy · Political philosophy · History of philosophy · Philosophy of technology · Hegel · American Founding

Teaching

Socratic Seminar Leader, Classical Educator Training, Holy Child Catholic School, Tijeras, NM (2023–2026)
Texts: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Genesis, Plato’s Euthyphro, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Augustine’s De Magistro, Plutarch’s Lives, Livy’s Ab urbe condita

Editorial Experience

Copyeditor, First Things (2021–Present)

Notable edited pieces:

Nathan Pinkoski, “Hannah and Her Resisters”
Matthew Rose, “Leo Strauss and the Closed Society”
Christopher Caldwell, “Regime Change, American Style” and “The Fateful Nineties”

Academic and Trade Press — Selected projects:

Pierre Manent, The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Times (St. Augustine’s Press, 2022) — Copy-editor and subject-matter consultant

Richard Ferrier, The Declaration of America: Our Principles in Thought and Action (St. Augustine’s Press, 2023) — Copy-editor and subject-matter consultant

Will Morrissey, Shakespeare’s Politic Comedy (St. Augustine’s Press, 2023) — Copy-editor

Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem., The Foundations of Wisdom, Vols. I–II (TAN Books, 2022–2023) — Developmental editor and subject-matter consultant

Nalin Ranasinghe and Lee Oser, Shakespeare’s Reformation: Christian Humanism and the Death of God (St. Augustine’s Press) — Copy-editor

Stanley L. Jaki, Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem, revised edition (Christendom Press) — Copy-editor

Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, trans. Faith Bottum (St. Augustine’s Press, 2026) — Line-editor of the translation

Curricular and Educational

Editor and consultant, Humanitas primary source reader series (Classical Academic Press). Volumes on the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages, Reformation, and early modernity. Consulted, edited, and contributed to sections covering the medieval Near East, medieval Far East, Islam, Scholasticism, the Scientific Revolution, liberalism, and the Enlightenment.

Christopher Perrin and Carrie Eben, The Good Teacher (Classical Academic Press) — Copy-editor

The Justice Reader: Classical Readings on the Cardinal Virtue of Justice (Classical Academic Press) — Copy-editor and subject-matter consultant

Elizabeth Winslow, Lost Letters of the American Revolution — Developmental editor

Essays

“‘Succeeding by the power of thought alone’: Oedipus Tyrannus’s Teaching on the Limits of Reason in Politics”

“A Dynamic Originalism: Judicial Interpretation and the Authority of Intention in Farabi”

“Slaves Without Masters: The Problem Posed to Human Freedom by the Cult of Well-being”

“‘Living without the future of a purpose and the past of an accomplishment’: Administrative Despotism and the Neo-Savage”

Languages

Classical Arabic (reading knowledge) · Ancient Greek (basic reading knowledge) · Latin (basic reading knowledge)

References

Available upon request.