I am an Assistant Professor in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University and the Academic Director of the Kendrick Center for an Ethical Economy. Before that I was an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I founded the major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. I am also an Affiliated Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

I completed my PhD in four years at the University of Arizona. My work has appeared, among other places, in the the Journal of Philosophy, American Political Science Review​, and American Journal of Political Science. My first book, published by Cambridge University Press, is titled Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity. I work at the intersection of social philosophy and political economy.