I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have a B.A. in philosophy from Whitman College, and an M.A. in philosophy from Northern Illinois University. From July until December 2009, I was a visiting scholar with the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney.

My philosophical interests nowadays center around metaphysics and the philosophy of science. My other main interests include epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of logic, and the history of modern philosophy.

At the moment I am working on a dissertation project that formulates a novel approach to truthmaking and applies that approach to various debates over the nature of truth and the nature of realism. My Master’s thesis argued for an inconsistency between deflationary theories of truth and constructive empiricism.