I am a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. My research interests include primate-hominid evolution (with particular emphasis on the brain), neuroanthropology, neurophilosophy, ethnohistory, and all things religion. The working title for my dissertation is the “Geneaology of Metaphysics,” which will trace the evolutionary origins and cultural histories of supernatural thinking and what has come to be known more recently as “religion.”
My previous graduate work at Duke University was in jurisprudence, the humanities and philosophy, with a specific focus on Nietzsche and the cultural genealogy of Western metaphysics. During my undergraduate years, I leisurely majored in English and political philosophy.