2003- Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German,
Barnard College, Columbia University
2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, J. W. Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt
2005- Affiliate Scholar, Center for Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia University
1998-03 Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University
1996-98 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California-San Diego
1988-95 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
1988 Ph.D., Columbia University

Current Research
A book-length manuscript on Rousseau's account of the nature, origin, and permissibility of social inequality.

Books
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Oxford, 2008)
The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard, 2000)
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)

Recent Articles
"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, & the Price of Virtue," forthcoming
"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord," forthcoming
"Die kritische Funktion der Genealogie im Denken Rousseaus," Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 4/2006, 495-509
"The Idea of a Hegelian 'Science' of Society," Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, 2005, 251-85
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour propre)," Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen
Idealismus, 2003, 221-39