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” in December 2023.

My work scrutinizes the relationship between metaphysics and politics (specifically political ideology and political violence). I have taught a variety of undergraduate courses, including Intro to Philosophy, Reasoning & Critical Thinking, Modern Social & Political Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Feminist Philosophies, Environmental Ethics (with a focus on Indigenous environmental philosophy), Psychoanalysis & Society, and Hegel’s Political Philosophy.

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.
You can also read an (old-ish) interview with me on the APA blog.