I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at The College of Idaho, a private liberal arts college in Caldwell, Idaho, near Boise. Starting Fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) at Creighton University. 

~I am also an avid florist - you can view a selection of my work here.

I teach courses in philosophy and religion which incorporate a diversity of world traditions, facilitate intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and encourage critical thinking about how differentially parameterized views contribute to the unfolding of thought and knowledge over time. 

Previously, I taught World Philosophy and historical survey courses as a faculty lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. My courses integrated sources from Greek, Anglo-American, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Latinx, African, and Pacifica region philosophical traditions. 

My research engages pre-modern Sanskritic resources as well as contemporary analytical frameworks towards exploring how language both enables and constrains metaphysical inquiry concerning perennially significant conscious phenomena, e.g., mind, self and consciousness in general. I analyze how various aspects of the metaphysics of mind and consciousness are linguistically communicated, aiming to disambiguate the semantics of phenomenal concepts, distinguish between superficial and substantive disagreements, address paradoxes of inexpressibiity, and disrupt norms in discourse which promote methodological dogmatism and depreciate philosophical exchange. 

For example, in my paper “Reconstructing Hindu-Buddhist Dialogue on the Self Through the Lens of Jaina Absolutism”, I employ Jaina semantic disambiguation strategies to show how the classical Indian self vs. no-self debate may be viewed as occurring between distinctively indexed, non-contradictory and thus potentially collaborative views.

My investment in the overlapping spheres of intercultural philosophy and comparative methodology extends beyond topics in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. In my teaching and research, I endeavor to promote fruitful, inclusive and context-sensitive discourse across core areas in philosophy and religion.