Education

Doctor of Philosophy – History (Ongoing) – City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY

Master of Arts – Liberal Studies (2012) – The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

• GPA: 3.91; Graduated with Honors.
• Focus on the controversy surrounding the philosophy of Pierre Bayle in Early Modern Europe.
• Honors Thesis: Libertinage Érudit and Pierre Bayle’s Pensées Diverses.
• Passed the Philosophy Department’s French Translation Exam.

Bachelor of Arts – English (2005) Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

• Program focused on English literature and composition, literary criticism.
• Minors: French, Political Science

Graduate-Level Assistantships

Modernity and Its Discontents, The New School for Social Research (Fall 2011)

• Worked with Department Chair James Miller.
• Materials included selections and complete texts from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Goethe, Olaudah Equiano, James Madison, Robespierre, Condorcet, Hegel, Marx, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, Freud, Darwin, Ernst Junger, Georg Lukacs, John Keegan, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt.

Undergraduate-Level Assistantships

College Algebra, Quinnipiac University (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004)
Applied Calculus, Quinnipiac University (Spring 2003, 2004, 2005)

Research Assistantships

Female Biography Project (Summer-Fall 2012)

Editorial Assistantships

Female Biography Project/Project Continua (Summer-Fall 2012)

• Worked with Project Director Gina Luria Walker.

Teaching Experience

• Assistant Teacher of English, Lycee Blaise Pascal, Anjou, France (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

Languages

• English – Native speaker
• French – Fluent reader, expert speaker, expert writer.
• Spanish – Can read with dictionary, basic conversational speaker.

Publication and Acknowledgments

• Pierre Bayle and Freedom of Religion – Canon the Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research. (Spring 2012)
• Editorial Assistant, Female Biography (Forthcoming from Pickering and Chatto)

Extracurricular Engagement

Department Representative – GFSS Fall 2010 – Spring 2012

• For 3 semesters, represented the Liberal Studies department to the Graduate Faculty Student Senate of the New School for Social Research.
• Facilitated, organized, and purchased supplies for Salon programs, monthly gatherings for interdisciplinary discussion.
• Organized a series of Town Hall-style meetings for New Schoof for Social Research students with incoming University President David Van Zandt.

Secretary – GFSS Spring 2012

• Took minutes, drafted important documents, handled voting documentation for monthly sessions of the student senate.

Elder, Presbyterian Church (USA)

• Ordained at Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, 1999.