Hi, I'm Robin, a philosopher living and working in Los Angeles. 

I have taught at California State University Northridge (in the San Fernando Valley) since 2015, and I'm currently Associate Chair in the Department of Philosophy. In addition, I coordinate our Philosophy Peer Tutoring Program and am a member of the Advisory Board for the CSUN Program in American Indian and Interdisciplinary Indigenous Studies. I teach broadly in the history of European, Africana, and American (including Indigenous American) philosophy, mostly—though not exclusively—from the 18th century to the present. 

Before coming to CSUN, I completed my PhD at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where I wrote a dissertation on Herder and Romantic conceptions of the mind. Before that, I earned an MA in Theoretical Linguistics from University College London. My research (here and here) now mainly focuses on figures and concepts in classical and critical phenomenology, especially at their intersections with historical human sciences (such as archaeology, anthropology, and geography). I also have an interest in philosophy's engagements—especially contemporaneous engagements—with colonialism and chattel slavery, and have taught and written about slave narratives, abolition, and emancipatory violence.  

In my teaching as well as my research, I am committed to philosophical pluralism, in the sense that I work across geographies, methods, and styles of philosophy. I am also passionate about the history of philosophy; I think that the best way to grasp philosophical ideas and arguments is to think deeply about the world and material conditions that produced and gave life to them (including how those conditions surface some forms of philosophizing above others). This belief informs both my writing and my teaching in a number of ways; to get a sense, you can check out my contribution to the APA Syllabus Showcase series or explore some of my syllabi.