MA Student Primary Research Interests 20th-Century Continental/European Philosophy, especially Martin Heidegger and Gianni Vattimo Social and Political Philosophy, especially authority, democracy, and the politics of Heidegger’s thought Secondary Research Interests Russian, German, and Jewish Intellectual History, Philosophy, and Religious Thought Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato and his Socrates Education Education: Clemson University, Clemson, SC M.A. in History | 2024 Thesis: Illusions of Freedom? A History of Attitudes Toward Death Award: Ernest McPherson Lander, Jr. Prize Advisor: Michael L. Meng | Readers: Kathryn Langenfeld and Benjamin L. White Middlebury Language Schools, Middlebury, VT Intensive Spanish Immersion Program | 2022, 2024 Academia Internacional de Lenguas, Málaga, Spain Intensive Spanish Immersion and Study Abroad Program | 2023 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN B.A. in History (Minor: Political Science) | 2019
