In January 2025, while presenting at the AGENT conference at the University of Texas–Austin, I met Dr. Kathleen M. Higgins, the spouse of Robert C. Solomon. After offering generous feedback on my research, she gifted me Solomon’s True to Our Feelings (2007) and his classic essay “Emotions and Choice” (1973). Although I had studied the philosophy of emotions for years, I was struck by how little I had engaged with Solomon’s work—and even more struck by the breadth and vitality of his corpus, spanning more than forty-five books and editions. 

This visit triggered the initiation of the Robert C. Solomon Digital Archive, a project dedicated to assembling, organizing, and making available Solomon’s voluminous philosophical writings. The archive is set up to be of interest to scholars, students, and the general public, as a window into his thoughts on existentialism, ethics, and philosophy of emotions. It is also an indispensable tool in the maintenance of the legacy of a philosopher who showed how deeply important philosophy is to human life.

I served as leader of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Graduate Teaching Assistant Colloquium (Fall 2022 - Spring 2024), in which new and seasoned teaching assistants, along with faculty, participated in a roundtable discussion on philosophy pedagogy. This was a discussion about what we are really doing, about teaching philosophy, and issues typically faced in the classroom. In this regard, the colloquium became a site where participants shared more than just practical strategies, also engaging in such philosophical discourse on pedagogy. The group dialogues and experiences shared had an enormous impact on the personal development of the participants.

Mentored the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Undergraduate Ethics Bowl Team (2023–2024). Guided students in preparing for applied ethics case debates on diverse topics, fostering critical thinking, teamwork, and public reasoning skills. Although budget constraints prevented travel to national competitions, several participants went on to take active roles in larger debate and philosophy clubs.