I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in philosophy in 1985. After studying in Princeton and working in Geneva, Switzerland, I began my Ph.D. work here at Harvard in 1987, focusing on philosophy and religious thought in the Modern West. An expanded version of my dissertation was published in 1999 as William James and the Metaphysics of Experience. In 1995, I moved to Tallahassee, FL, to teach at Florida State University. I joined Harvard's Faculty of Divinity in 1997 as Assistant Professor of Theology, and was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the summer of 2000.
Cooking is more than an avocation, but rather a passion.