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steve's professional life

I am a philosophy professor. I did my undergrad at Harvard (with math as an "allied field"), and my PhD at the University of Michigan. Then I did a Mellon 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Kalamazoo College, and now I am an assistant professor in the growing philosophy department at Niagara University.

My complete research portfolio and teaching portfolio are available online.

academic cv

Here is my current curriculum vitae, in Adobe pdf.

references

My research references are advisor Eric Lormand (Michigan), Jessica Wilson (formerly Michigan, now Toronto), Marc Alspector-Kelly (Western Michigan University), and Jim Joyce (Michigan).

My teaching references are David Velleman (formerly Michigan, now NYU), Chris Latiolais (Kalamazoo College), and Ashley McDowell (Kalamazoo College).

nice quotation

Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose … the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity he has the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times - noisy, aggressive, revving and roaring - belongs to the realm of death, like a cemetery for rusty old cars.

from Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium