Medieval studies in progress

• Medieval Methods: Boundaries Between Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the Esoteric (examining what distinguishes one kind of inquiry from another within Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought; includes angels, alchemists, metaphysics, mystics, magicians, and monsters)
• Medieval Fashion & Food (studying sacred and social garb + customs of feasting and fasting as lenses onto the medieval world)
• Medieval Money & Maps (comparing and contrasting modes of commerce and travel at the intersection of religious, scientific, artistic, economic, and political life)
• Marking Medieval Time (exploring the science and culture of different calendars within and across traditions with wide-ranging implications for religion, society, and politics)

More in progress

• Odd Creation: Reading Genesis with Augustine, Eriugena, Ibn Gabirol, and Gersonides (book project)
• Pausing for Pardon: Early Levinas on Ethical Embodied Life (book project)
• “Maimonides: Humans as Created, Commanded, and Rational,” A History of Human Nature: From the Ancient World to Contemporary Debates, ed. William Simpson (Cambridge University Press)
• “Jewish Engagement with Platonism,” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Neoplatonism, eds. Sara Rappe, Michael J. Griffin, and Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga (Bloomsbury)

Forthcoming medieval essays

• “When a Part is not a Part: Hylomorphic Emanationist Mereology in Ibn Gabirol,” On What There Was: Parts and Wholes, ed. Andrew Arlig (Belgium: Brepols Publishers)
• “Ibn Gabirol’s Two Prime Matters?: Emanation, Apophasis, and Ethics at the Spirit to Body Boundary,” A Philosophical History of Prime Matter, Vol 1: Ancient and Pre-Scholastic Conceptions, ed. Nicola Polloni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• “Platonism, Neoplatonism,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, eds. Hans-Josef Klauck, Volker Leppin, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (De Gruyter)

Recent medieval essays

• “Jewish Emanationisms,” Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy, eds. Paul Franks and Yitzhak Melamed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026)
• “Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” co-authored with Peter Adamson, The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy, eds. Ty Goldschmidt and Daniel Rynhold (New York; London: Routledge, 2025).
• “Chains, Trees, and Ibn Gabirol’s Spirit-to-Body Boundary: Substance, Spiritual Matter, and the Principle of Matter as Higher Cause,” Solomon Ibn Gabirol: Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Philosophy, eds. Nicola Polloni, Marienza Benedetto, and Federico Dal Bo (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023)
• “Solomon Ibn Gabirol,” Jewish Virtue Ethics, eds. Geoffrey Claussen, Alex Green, and Alan Mittleman, 81-95 (Albany: SUNY University Press, 2023)

Some Podcasts + Public Writing

• “Jewish Neoplatonism” on Torah in Motion (with J.J. Kimche)
• “Invisible Kansases: How Not to Read Old Cosmologies,” Cambridge Blog
• “From Awkward Silence to Hard Hope” on When We Disagree (with Michael Lee)
• “Forget the warm fuzzies of finding common ground – to beat polarization, try changing your expectations,” The Conversation (featured by Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center)
• “On the Spiritual Sound of the Shofar,” The Conversation
• “Cronkite, Cyborgs, and the Crisis of Democracy,” Medium
• “The Imperfect Politics of Ted Lasso,” GEN (featured in Medium newsletter)

Recent civic projects

• Built an AI Agent and led a team to 2nd place in an ATD AI Hackathon!
• Brought the amazing Sundance-nominated ConnectEffect to Denver- twice!
• During recent 3-year role as Program Director for Student Affairs at University of Denver, led Supper Clubs, Labyrinths, Light Gardens, Night Walks, Glow Rides, Writing Retreats, and Pop-Up Ball Pits
• Designed and led trainings and workshops on ethics, civics, Title 6, free expression, religious pluralism, and more for: Campus Safety teams, Student Affairs student leaders, campus senior administrators, CO Parks Department, and Colorado Rural Electric Association (CREA)