I am a member of the philosophy department at Syracuse University. Prior to coming here, I was assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, where I taught from 2012 to 2018, and was the Alain Locke Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University before that. I earned my PhD in Philosophy at Rutgers University (2011).
I am the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (Routledge, 2017). I am also the author of several articles on the semantics and pragmatics of racial slurs, epistemic injustice, and racial humor. 
My research and teaching interests include philosophy of language, African American philosophy, aesthetics, humor, and social ontology. You can find out more about me and my research by clicking on the menu tabs. 

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