About
An American philosopher in France, working at the intersection of continental philosophy, private markets, and the digital humanities.
I was trained in Atlanta, at Emory and at Holy Spirit College, and then in Paris, where I took a doctorate in philosophy at the Institut Catholique in international convention with Australian Catholic University, under Emmanuel Falque and Robyn Horner, with a thesis that reads the whole of Maurice Blondel’s project as a spiritual realism. That work has kept me in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French philosophy since: Blondel and the spiritualist line behind him, the phenomenology that came after him, and the philosophy of religion that grew out of both. I write on it and translate it.
Since 2017 I have been Secretary of the International Network in Philosophy of Religion, convening its seminars in France, Italy, Switzerland, the United States and Britain, and I co-founded its journal, Crossing, which I edit, and its foundation in the United States. I have helped grow the network from some thirty members to more than two hundred, organized fifteen international colloquia and doctoral seminars with budgets of up to €32,000, and managed its administration, finances and fundraising. With Cascade Books I co-edit the series Thinking Philosophy of Religion.
The same habits of research carry into private markets. I am Vice President at Rowe Tomes Advisors, an M&A and strategic advisory firm serving founders and middle-market businesses, where I produce sector research for business owners and work on business development and deal origination; before that I did buy-side and sell-side work with Arwood Partners.
Gondolin Labs, founded in 2026, is the research system I designed and run on my own servers. It gathers documents from their original sources, indexes and archives them, builds tables and charts from the underlying data, and checks every factual claim in a draft against its source. It serves my scholarship and research, and its current public focus is open-access digital humanities.
Offices & Affiliations
- Secretary The International Network in Philosophy of Religion Convening the network’s seminars and colloquia, and coordinating correspondence among its member institutions and researchers.
- Co-founder The INPR Foundation
- Co-founder and General Editor Crossing: The INPR Journal
- Co-editor Thinking Philosophy of Religion · Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock
- Vice President Rowe Tomes Advisors
