Jake joined the departments of Philosophy and Classics in 2017 at Yale University after completing a BA at UNC-Chapel Hill in Philosophy and Classics. He is a specialist in classical Greek and Roman philosophy currently writing a dissertation on the metaphysics of process in Aristotle. He is also interested in the reception of Aristotle in the Platonic tradition, especially the philosophy of Plotinus. Jake has taught courses at Yale including including “Human and Divine in Ancient Ethics” (co-taught with Yale Professor Brad Inwood). Through this course as well as his own research, he is interested in the link between theological and metaphysical speculation and living the best kind of human life. He is excited to bring “philosophy as a way of life” into conversation with his teaching in “life worth living.” Outside of philosophy he enjoys poetry, especially that of John Ashberry and Frank Bidart, and black metal.