Shorter Writings
Public writing
Essays and op-eds for general audiences on dialogue, polarization, and democratic life.
Why you should talk with people you disagree with about politics
The Conversation, 2024. Republished by outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times.
Working with the enemy: The pros and cons of collaborating with perpetrators
openGlobalRights / openDemocracy, 2017.
Selected scholarly articles
Contested Speech in (Post)-Modernity: Understanding Debates About Political Dialogue on College Campuses
Teachers College Record, 2026.
Getting the world in view: What talk can do
Philosophy & Rhetoric, 2025.
Reasoning as questioning in dialogue
Educational Theory, 2024.
Dialogue and the good: Fingers pointing at the moon?
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2023.
Agency: The constraint of instrumentality
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022.
Not monsters after all: How political deliberation can build moral communities amidst deep difference
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2021.
Learning in democracy: Deliberation and activism as forms of education
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020.
Just talk: Learning across political divides on college campuses
Theory and Research in Education, 2019.
The inner life of democracy: Learning in deliberation between the police and communities of color
Educational Theory, 2018.
No justice, no peace: The police, people of color, and the paradox of protecting human rights
Human Rights Quarterly, 2017.
Learning world culture or changing it? Human rights education and the police in India
Comparative Education Review, 2016.
Justice, context, and violence: How police explain torture
Law and Society Review, 2014.
A selection of peer-reviewed articles. A full list of publications is available on request.
Book chapters
Controversial conversations on college campuses: What happens and why it matters for democracy
in Teaching Controversy: The Politics and Ethics of Classroom Conflict, Oxford University Press, 2026.
Just Talking: Moral Recognition and Political Legitimacy
in The Necessity of Character, Finstock & Tew, 2024.
Dialogue in bad times
in Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity, University of Virginia Press, 2018.