Award
- USM’s 2024 Humanities Teacher of the Year, Mississippi Humanities Council
Courses Taught at USM
- Honors Seminar: Aesthetics, Film, and the Paradox of Good-Bad Art (HON 303)
- Contemporary Philosophical Issues: Health, Welfare, and Disability (PHI 460)
- Existentialism (PHI 450/550)
- Healthcare Ethics (PHI 452/552)
- Topics in Moral Philosophy: Pandemic Bioethics (PHI 320)
- Critical Thinking with LSAT prep (PHI 351)
- Ethics & Good Living (PHI 171)
Interdisciplinary Investigations Series: Medical Encounters
Medical Encounters is a 2021-2022 series of events and course offered at the University of Southern Mississippi sponsored by the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and underwritten by the Southern Miss Fund for Academic Excellence.
This series focuses on the sites of tension, and even breakdown, between patient and provider. We will examine moments when the goals of a physician are at odds with the goals of the person they are treating; moments when communication is insufficient and neither party can understand one another; moments when healthcare fails to provide care, and even harms the patient. We are especially interested in the conceptual gaps, structural challenges, and biases that complicate medical encounters.
Beyond diagnosing the problems, though, we will initiate conversations that may help us to envision solutions. How can patients and practitioners learn to listen better to one another? In what ways might our concepts of “health,” “illness,” and “disability” require revision? How can we address the ways that systemic inequalities shape medical encounters? How can the arts be a site of resistance against the problems of medical encounters, and how can the arts enable us to imagine better ways of providing care?
Great Philosophers on Friendship & Solitude
Great Philosophers on Friendship & Solitude is a special collection of essays written by my students at Boston University in Spring 2019, the culmination of a multi-stage pedagogical exercise to emulate the academic publishing cycle and peer-to-peer commentary. Each student wrote an essay, submitted it for peer review by their classmates, and addressed their reviewers’ feedback in a final submission. This collection features the final outputs of the students whose papers were selected by their peers for publication in this freely accessible collection hosted by OpenBU.