I’m Cara, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Colorado College.  
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of New Mexico after defending my dissertation “Bloody Rationality: The Dialectic of Modern Reason and Sacrifice in Hegel, Adorno, and Horkheimer” this past December 2023.

Research and Teaching: My research concerns the relationship between metaphysics and politics (specifically political ideology and political violence). For more information on my research, click the “Research” tab above. I teach a wide variety of courses, including Intro to Philosophy, Reasoning & Critical Thinking, Modern Social & Political Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy (with a focus on Indigenous Place-Based Philosophy), Feminist Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Hegel’s Political Philosophy. For more information on my teaching, click the “Teaching” tab above.

In addition to these, I’m the editor of the blog of the American Philosophical Association’s “Syllabus Showcase” series, and I run an interdisciplinary research group called the California Ideology Project.
You can read some of my work on my PhilPapers and Academia.edu pages, as well as an (old-ish) interview with me on the APA blog.