About

Welcome to my website! You can find links to some of my recent work on the research page!

My research interests are in social and political philosophy and ethics. I mostly write about justice and legitimacy, and about how liberal egalitarian theory can help us respond better to injustice. I tend to think about these matters with a focus on economic, gender, and educational injustice. 

My 2024 book, The Anatomy of Justice (OUP), forwards an approach to theorizing about justice that makes the theory more helpful for addressing injustice. My 2019 book, Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor (OUP), argues that social policy aimed at eroding the gendered division of labor can comply with stringent liberal constraints on legitimate exercises of political power, and that this capacity yields interesting insights about those constraints. 

Other work-in-progress includes a coauthored book on equal educational opportunity for the History and Philosophy of Education book series, a book on feminism and political liberalism for the Cambridge Elements series, various papers on non-ideal theory in political philosophy, and a project of unknown form on the moral and political significance of home. 

Most of my teaching is in ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, feminist philosophy, and educational ethics. Those interested in my teaching philosophy and descriptions of some of the courses I’ve taught can find that information on my teaching page. 

Before coming to Harvard, I taught at Illinois State University (2013-2016). I received my PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 (go Bucky) and my BA in 2006 from Ball State University (chirp, chirp), where I majored in philosophy and Spanish. Between graduating from Ball State and beginning my PhD, I spent some time teaching kindergarten in Denver, Colorado.