I am an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of California, San Diego. I obtained my PhD from Harvard University in 2018. I specialize in Classical Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on ancient theories of the soul. My research interests focus on ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology in the works of Plato and Aristotle. In my work, I explore the connection between affective states and intellectual capabilities, types of human motivation, and the extent to which ancient moral psychological models are shaped by the recognition that we are social beings by nature. I have also written about philosophical conceptions of non-human animals in Antiquity and I have an ongoing interest in the history of Greco-Roman medicine (especially philosophy of mind and teleology in Galen of Pergamum).