Hi, I’m Alex.

I am Associate Director for Content Strategy and Engagement at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. There, I oversee student and public-facing educational content platforms and digital experiences, as well as directing the Institute’s national engagement initiatives. I also teach in the Department of Philosophy at DePauw. Before coming to Indiana, I was Director of the award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl program at the University of North Carolina's Parr Center for Ethics (2019-2024) and a Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Elon University (2021-2024). I serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and as Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Philosophy.

Working at the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of education, I consider myself a teacher at heart, and an advocate for public and pre-college philosophy pedagogy. My research interests are varied, but as of late I am thinking and writing about issues in democratic civic education and the development of moral and intellectual virtues, among other topics. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2021, where I taught for many lovely years and wrote a dissertation on the virtue of civility and its role in the non-ideal politics of democratic societies.