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I'm an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at  Birmingham. Before arriving at UAB in 2021, I was an assistant professor at Syracuse University. I received my PhD in philosophy in 2020 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I discovered the joys of Southern food and Tar Heel basketball.

My research and teaching interests are wide-ranging, but they all center around normative questions: questions about how we should live our lives. Some of these are foundational normative questions, such as what explains our reasons to act, think, and feel in certain ways. Others are more applied. I'm especially interested in questions concerning the nature of racism and other forms of discrimination: How does discrimination work? What's wrong with it? And how should it be combated? I'm also working on Sikh philosophy, with a particular focus on showing how Sikh texts present a systematic ethical framework that has been overlooked until now by analytic philosophers.

Before graduate school, I received my bachelor's degree in philosophy from Princeton University. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. When I'm not doing philosophy, I enjoy playing jazz guitar, tabletop gaming, and watching football and basketball. I spend most of my time with my spouse, Lindsay Brainard, who's also a philosopher, and our dog, Frisbee. I used to be a professional jazz guitarist and composer; you can listen to the album I recorded in my previous life here.

My pronouns are he/him.