I am a historian of philosophy specialized in early modern philosophy. My research focuses on 17th-C. philosophy and Baruch Spinoza in particular.

I recently pursued my research as a Solmsen Fellow (2024-2025) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison. The Solmsen supported my ongoing project: Spinoza and the Philosophy of War.

For 2025-2026 I will take up a position at Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Ogden Honors College. Previously I was a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans.

Another recent project of mine was co-editing The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). I am also co-founder of the research seminar Spinoza à Paris 8 and co-editor of Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

I hold a PhD and MA from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. I hold a BA from Cornell University.

Please feel free to contact me at jckstetter@gmail.com or find me on LinkedIn, PhilPeople, and Academia.edu.