I am a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. My dissertation explores health and medicalization, with a special focus on the interactions between the medicalization of grief and the role of grief in a flourishing life. The picture of grief that I develop has implications for debates in moral psychology and the philosophy of medicine. It also has implications for issues in applied bioethics, including debates regarding psychiatric nosology (such as the recent controversy over the addition of a grief-specific disorder to both the DSM and the ICD) and transhumanism. To read more about my research, click here.

I am also currently a Rackham Doctoral Internship Fellow in clinical ethics with the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM).