Ph.D. in Philosophy, Free University of Berlin

Ph.D. in Political Science, Princeton University

B.A. in Philosophy, Yale University

Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Political Theory, Social Theory, Bioethics, Genetic Manipulation of Humans

Johannes Kepler Universtiy of Linz Visiting Professor - Fulbright (2016)

Visiting Scholar - Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and The Hastings Institute (2016)

Humanities Research Award - College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin (2014 - 2016)

Silver Spurs Fellowship - College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin (1999)

Visiting Scholar - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford 2017-2018

Political Bioethics, University of Oxford, University of Oxford (2018)

Series of ten lectures on human rights, Nucleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal de Goais, Goiânia, Brazil (2018)

The Anthropocene and Global Inequality: The Task for Human Rights”, University of Lund, Sweden (2018)

Can Corporate Profit-Seeking Accord with Human Rights-Promotion?, University of Glasgow, Scotland (2018)

Epigenetics as a Political Theory of Genetically Influenced Social Inequalities, 24th World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, China (2018)

Human Rights Advocacy as Bottom-Up Politics that Deploys the Rule of Law, Democracy, Cosmopolitan Declarations and International Law, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Munich, Germany (2018)

Genetic Therapy and Genetic Enhancement of Human Intelligence: What Regulatory Guidance Might Human Rights Provide?, Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen, Berlin, Germany (2018)

Why the Difference Between Two Forms of Engineered Intelligence Matters: AI and Genetically Manipulated Humans, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (2018)

Epigenetics as a Political Theory of Genetically Influenced Social Inequalities, Psi Chi Honours Society,, National University of Ireland Galway (2018)

UT Undergraduate Research Journal Humanities Panel, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Genetic Engineering of Human Intelligence: Moral, Legal, and Political Issues, Humanities Research Award Symposium, University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Polymathic Scholars, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Epigenetics as a Political Theory of Genetically Influenced Social Inequalities, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Study of Biology, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2017)

The Role of Legal Professionals in Advancing the Human Rights of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples, OAB-DF (Brazilian Bar Association, Section at Distrito Federal), Brazil (2017)

The Human Rights State as Borders Embedded in the Citizen, Universidade de Brasília, Universidade de Brasília (2017)

A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law, IESB Centro Universitário, Brasília, Brazil (2017)

Self-Authored Human Rights, IESB Centro Universitário, Brasília, Brazil (2017)

The Great ‘Social Scientific Experiment’ of the 21st Century: Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism vs. Western Democratic Capitalism, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (2017)

Social and Political Challenges of Human Genetic Engineering, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee (2017)

Social Theory at the Margins of the Social: Epigenetics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Anthropocene, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Committee on Social Theory, Knoxville, Tennessee (2017)

The Human Rights Challenges Posed by Human Genetic Engineering, University of Oslo, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway (2016)

Human Nature as a Product of Technology: Promises and Perils of Human Genetic Manipulation, University of Linz, Austria (2016)

The Human Rights Challenges Posed by Human Genetic Engineering, University of Helsinki, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki, Finland (2016)

The Human Rights State: Political Community Beyond the Nation State, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Philosophy, Prague (2016)

Human Genetic Engineering: Pressing Issues of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, DeCode Genetics, Reykjavík, Iceland (2016)

Genetically Informed Personalized Education: Promises and Perils for Social Justice, Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Lund, Sweden (2016)

The Human Rights Challenge of Genetic Engineering, Raul Wallenberg Institute, Lund, Sweden (2016)

Human Rights in East Asia, University of Hokkaido, School of Law, Sapporo, Japan (2016)

Human Rights as Social Construction: In Dialogue with the Jesuit Tradition, University of Duesto, Human Rights Institute, Bilbao, Spain (2016)

Social Inequalities in the Enhancement of Health through Genetic Manipulation, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Standing Group on Political Theory, Université de Montréal, Canada (2015)

Genetic Diversity Among Humans: A Human Rights Issue?, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Study of Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada (2015)

The Relationship between Human Rights and Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia (2015)

A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015)

Human Rights as Constructs: Without Religion or Metaphysics, Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, London Metropolitan University, London, UK (2015)

Fundamental Questions for Political Community Posed by Genetic Manipulation, University of the West of Scotland, Paisely, UK (2015)

Challenges to Human Rights Theory and Practice, Glasgow Human Rights Network, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2015)

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