Hello, I’m Alex.

I am Associate Director for Content Strategy and Engagement at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, where I also teach courses in the Department of Philosophy. I was previously Director of the award-winning National High School Ethics Bowl program at the University of North Carolina's Parr Center for Ethics and a Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Elon University. I also serve on Boards of Directors of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and Ethics Bowl Canada, as well as on 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 adolescents, 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 like our own.