Early Modern Philosophy, Kant
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
2022-2028 (expected) PhD, Philosophy- University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022 - 2025 MA, Philosophy - University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 - 2020 BA, Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley
High Distinction in General Scholarship
“Spinoza on Necessitarianism, Freedom, and the Affects” — Forum Descartes, January 2025
“Rationality, Imagination, and (Non-)Conceptualism” — 2026 APA Central, February 2026
“Descartes and Cordemoy on Prejudice, Sensory Experience, and Causation” — Boston College Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 2026
“Material and Intelligible Extension in Malebranche's Projectionism” — Harvard–MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2026
“Oculis apertis somniant: Spinoza on Madness, Prophecy, and Superstition” — UW-Madison Spinoza Conference, May 2026
Forsman, J., “Margaret Cavendish and Skepticism” — 2025 APA Central, February 2025
Cheri, S. A., “On the Origin of Ideal Time in G.W. Leibniz” — Forum Descartes, 3nd Edition
History of Modern Philosophy (with Patrick Connolly)
Introduction to Philosophy (with Lukas Myers)
Introduction to Ethics (with Katie Deaven)
History of Ancient Philosophy (with Paula Gottlieb)
Contemporary Moral Issues (with Lukas Myers)
Research Assistant for Steven Nadler, Summer 2023 and Spring 2024
Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, May 2025 – August 2026
2019-2020 Co-President of the Philosophy Forum at Berkeley (2019-2020)
Co-Editor-in-Chief for the 2019-2020 issue of The Idealist, Berkeley's undergraduate journal (2019-2020)
Director of Research Development for the UW-Madison Graduate Association of Philosophy (2024–2026)
Lead Organizer of the UW-Madison Spinoza Conference: “The Transformative Power of Knowledge," held May 28-29, 2026 at UW-Madison
Reading knowledge of French and Latin.