| 11/2014-Current | Program Advisor at Hokkaido University of Education International Affairs Division |
| 04/2014-10/2014 | Term-Limited Instructor at Hokkaido University of Education Asahikawa in the English Division |
| 09/2013-03/2014 | Academic Researcher at Hokkaido University Center for Sustainability Science, working on Fisheries Ethics and the role of logic and ethics in the curriculum for masters and PhD students. |
| 2013 | PhD | Fordham University | Philosophy |
| 2012-2014 | Hokkaido University | Coursework in Japanese language | |
| 2011 | MPhil | Fordham University | Philosophy |
| 2007 | MA | Loyola Marymount University | Philosophy |
| 2003 | BS | Wheaton College (IL) | Chemistry & Philosophy (Dual) |
| 2011 | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Support Grant: Fordham University |
| 2008-2012 | Teaching Fellow: Fordham University |
| 2007-2008 | University Fellowship: Fordham University |
| 2006-2007 | Tuition Scholarship: Loyola Marymount University |
| Fall 2006 | Teaching Fellow: Loyola Marymount University |
| 2012-2014 | Monbukagakusho “MEXT” Kenkyuusei (Japanese Ministry of Education Research Student) |
| 2011 | Uehiro Prize (Awarded for Best Paper at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Uehiro Crosscurrents Conference) |
| 2009 | Hokkaido University Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy Travel Grant |
| 2017 | "Education and Capacity Building with Research a possible case for Future Earth" in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 18.2 Authors: Yasuhiro Fukushima, Gaku Ishimura, Andrew Komasinski, Reiko Omoto, Shun Managi (2017): 263-276 | link |
| 2017 | "Critical Thinking and Normative Competencies for Sustainability Science Education" in 高等教育ジャーナル = Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning 24 With Gaku Ishimura as co-author (2017): 21-37 | link |
| 2016 | "How Relational Selfhood Rearranges the Debate between Feminists and Confucians" in Feminist Encounters with Confuciuswith Stephanie Komashin as co-author edited by Sor Hoon Tan and Mathew Foust (Brill Academic: December 2016): 141-164 | link |
| 2016 | "Mobile-CALT: A Practical Guide for Using Cell Phones for CALT" in OnCUE Journal 9.4 (December 2016): 403-415 | link |
| 2016 | "How Kierkegaard can Help Us Understand Covering in Analects 13.18" in Asian Philosophy 26.2 (April 2016): 133-148 | link |
| 2016 | "Ethics is for Children: Revisiting Aristotle's Virtue Theory" in Philosophy of Childhood: Exploring the Boundaries edited by Brock Bahler and David Kennedy (Lexington Books: October 2016): 39-52 | link |
| 2014 | "A Hegelian Approach to Applied Ethics and Technology" in Applied Ethics: Ethics in an Era of Emerging Technologies (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan: 2014): 36-48 | |
| 2014 | "Anti-Climacus’s Pre-emptive Critique of Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology" in International Philosophical Quarterly 54.3 (September 2014): 101-113 | link |
| 2011 | "Maybe Happiness Is Loving Our Fathers: Confucius and the Rituals of Dad" in Fatherhood and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell: 2011): 110-120 | link |
| 2010 | "A Transcendental Phenomenology that Leads out of Transcendental Phenomenology: Using Climacus’ Paradox to Explain Marion’s Being Given" in Quaestiones Disputatae 1.1 (Spring 2010): 112-130 | link |
| 2015 | “Encouraging Cell Phone Use in the Classroom” in 研究集録 (Research Summary) for the 64th Tohoku/Hokkaido Area University-level Education Research Society | |
| 2013 | “A Reader’s Companion to the Analects” (Book Review) at Warp Weft and Way | link |
| 2015 | "Practical Approaches to Business Writing in CALL Classrooms" at 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Education with Stephen Asbridge and Ivan Todd |
| 2015 | "How Relational Selfhood Rearranges the Debate between Feminists and Confucians" at International Conference for the Society of for Chinese Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong with Stephanie Komashin |
| 2015 | 「カントの『宗教論』と「神命説(DIVINE COMMAND THEORY)の共通点」[What Kant’s God and Divine Command Theory Share] at 北海道基督教学術大会 [Hokkaido Christian Studies Academic Presentation Conference] |
| 2014 | "Ethics is for Children: Revisiting Aristotle’s Virtue Theory" at Special Symposium of the IAPC at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division |
| 2014 | "Encouraging Cellphone use in the Classroom" at 第64回東北・北海道地区大学等高等・共通教育研究会 at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine |
| 2014 | "Ethics as a Humanistic Competency for Future Earth" at 14th Science Council of Asia, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia |
| 2013 | "Why Science Cannot Overturn Applied Ethics: Hegel on Morality's Autonomy" at Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University |
| 2013 | 「カントの批判的倫理学とヘーゲルの自然法批判」[Kant’s Critical Moral Philosophy and Hegel’s Critique in “Natural Law”] at Hokkaido University Philosophical Association, Sapporo, Japan |
| 2012 | "Confucian Moral Selfhood" at University of New South Wales Australasian Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Sydney, Australia |
| 2011 | "The Essentially Relational Self in Kierkegaard and Nishida" at University of Hawai’i at Manoa Uehiro Crosscurrents Conference, Manoa, HI |
| 2011 | "A Relational Understanding of Justification in Luke: Restored to the Father" at Society of Vineyard Scholars, Seattle, WA |
| 2009 | "Finding Pleasure in Friendship: Epicurus and Confucius" at Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University |
| 2009 | "Aristotle’s Ergon and the Family: Human Flourishing in Human Families" at Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University Lincoln Center |
| 2008 | "Making Sense of the Saturated Phenomenon: How Kierkegaard Can Help Marion’s Being Given" at The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion, Franciscan University of Steubenville |
| 2008 | "Reawakening the Christian Sense of Locke’s Tolerance" at Fordham Graduate Student Philosophy Conference |
| 2007 | "Is there anything more important than Life?" at Society for the Asian and Comparative Philosophy at Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association |
| Under Review | "Faith, Recognition, and Community" | In this paper (presently accepted for publication based on its abstract), I consider how Hegel and Kierekgaard see faith as playing a central role in accepting God as an epistemic source -- for Hegel with negative consequences and for Kierkegaard with both shocking (Fear and Trembling) and positive consequences (Works of Love) |
| Final Editing | "Hegel's All-things-considered views of Crime and Punsihment" | This paper moves past Philosophy of Right's "Abstract Right" in trying establish Hegel's account of crime and punishment |
| Active Research | "Finding Common Ground between Hegel and Confucianism" | Hegel is well-known for saying that the Confucians "lacked Spirit." He also has many negative things to say about the Confucians. Despite this, I want to suggest some common ground on community and the nature of value, but I also want to suggest that Hegel is right on the "spirit" claim -- and this should not necessarily bother Confucians |
| Active Research | "In-Class Participation Management Tools" | This project builds on work I have used in managing my own classes to demonstrate how to implement a portable tool to track student participation |
| Thesis and Initial Research | "Kierkegaard and Lopsided Recognition" | Hegel is well-known for "mutual recognition." Mutual recognition between equal humans is a key moment in the development of spirit and its self-consciousness. In this paper, I look at how recognition operates for Kierkegaard, arguing that being recognized gives and shapes the epistemology of human selves -- but lacks this dimension of mutuality due to the power that makes the recognition work. |
Philosophy Philosophical Ethics(4x) Philosophy of Human Nature(4x) Descartes and Locke(1x) Plato and Aristotle(0.5x) Environmental Ethics(0.25x) | English Education (All at HUE) English Communication(5x) Presentation(3x) Methodologies for English-mediated Instruction(3x) Business Writing / Communication(4x) Intercultural Understanding(2x) |
English Literature The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Moral Imagination)(2x) A Christmas Carol (Literature and Social Critique)(1x) | Academic English Academic Writing(4x) Academic Reading(1x) |
| Spring 2012 | Referee for Fordham Graduate Philosophy Conference |
| 2009-2010 | Co-Chair of Fordham Graduate Philosophy Conference for Spring |
| 2010 | “Aristotle in the 21st Century” (Spring 2009-Spring 2010) |
| Conference Referee for Fordham Graduate Symposium: Fall 2008, Spring 2009 | |
| Paper Referee for Journal of the Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy at Hokkaido University (2013), Philosophy East and West (2015) | |
| Translation Work Kuriyama Masatoshi (Hokkaido University: 2013) and Ikeda Makoto (Hokkaido University: 2014) | |
| Editing Assistance: Hokkaido University of Education Asahikawa faculty |
| 2015-Current | Member of Hokkaido University of Education Asahikawa Campus International Exchange Committee |
| 2014-Current | Member of Hokkaido University of Education Global Education Leaders Program Committee |
| 2014-Current | Developed a proprietary LMS |
| 2011-2012 | Faculty advisor for the Polish Student Association |
| 2007-2008 | Developed and managed “Academic Integrity” Online Tutorial for Fordham University’s undergraduate colleges in PHP/MySQL |
| Japanese | Competent reading, speaking, and writing (JLPT N1) |
| German | Reading Compentecy with a dictionary, conversational spoken German |
| French | Reading Competency with a dictionary |
| Latin | Reading Competency |
| Danish | Basic Reading Competency |
| Web Development | 10 years professional experience: PHP, MySQL, HTML,JavaScript |
| Web Marketing | Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing |
| Office | 20+ years experience with MS Office. Several VBA projects. |