RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political philosophy (specifically theories of equality, structural injustice, and oppression), social epistemology, and social identity.
My dissertation, written under the supervision of Robert B. Talisse, intervened in debates about egalitarian justice by working out an account of the relations of equality required for justice within relationalist theories.
My current projects look at how identity intersects with questions of justice.
One continues develop the theory of relational egalitarian justice that I began in my dissertation, articulating what it means to "relate as equals". The other justifies and develops a theory of "rural identity", which I think will provide useful resources to understand certain claims of injustice and inequality in the contemporary world
I am also working on a few additional articles, including one on the treatment of criminals within Elizabeth Anderson's theory of democratic equality, and a second on science fiction as a source of epistemic resistance.
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PUBLISHED WORK
Books
Gaslighting: Philosophical Approaches
Journal Articles
“Unjustly Dismissing an Alternative: A Case of Epistemic Injustice among Epistemic Frameworks”
Éthique et économique/Ethics and Economics, 16(1), 2019: 20-30
“Addressing Barriers to Deliberative Participation in Adaptive Preference Interventions.”
Ethics and Social Welfare 11(2), 2017: 122-134
Republished in Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues ed. Christine M. Koggel. Routledge (2019)
Books Chapters
“Theorizing Structural Gaslighting as Gaslighting”
in Gaslighting: Philosophical Approaches ed. by Kelly Oliver, Hanna Gunn, and Holly Longair, SUNY Press. March 2025
“Black Bodies, ‘Black Panther’”
Co-authored with Taylor, Paul C., Sarah Dimaggio, and Takunda Matose in African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics ed. Catherine Botha, 2020, Brill.
Reviews and Commentaries
Review of Christian Schemmel’s Justice and Egalitarian Relations
The Journal of Moral Philosophy 21 (3-4), 2024: 445-448.
“Conceptualizing Microaggressions”, commentary on “Making Sense of ‘Microaggression’: On Family Resemblance and Standpoint Epistemology”
Southwest Philosophy Review 37 (2), 2021: 25-28.
“The Other Meaning of Sex”, commentary on John Harfouch’s Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being
Philosophy Syndicate Book Symposium
“Absence and Silencing: Two Methods of Exclusion” commentary on Sarah Tyson’s Where are the Women?: Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
Philosophy Syndicate Book Symposium
CONFERENCES and TALKS
Conference Presentations
“Is ‘Rural’ a Social Identity?”
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NASSP International Social Philosophy Conference 2024
“Theorizing Structural Gaslighting as Gaslighting”
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KPU Philosophy Department Colloquium, Fall 2022
“On the Just Punishment of Criminals in Anderson’s Relational Egalitarianism”
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Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2021, online
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38th International Social Philosophy Conference 2021, online
“Under the Umbrella: Extending the Analysis of Epistemic Injustice to Epistemic Frameworks”
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43rd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference 2019, Memphis, TN
​ “Alternative Conceptual Frameworks and Epistemic Injustice in International Development”
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Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Conference 2018, Sydney, NS
“Epistemic Injustice and Alternative Epistemic Frameworks: The Case of Cuba”
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IDEA-GRETHA Congress 2018, Bordeaux, France
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Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2018, Montreal, QC
“The Deliberative Perfectionist Approach to Adaptive Preferences”
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Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2016, Calgary, AB
Conference and Workshop Commentaries
Commentary on Julia Minarik's "Echo Chambers of Fat Oppression"
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Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2025
Book Symposium on Dr. Casey Johnson’s Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology (invited panelist)
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American Philosophical Association Pacific Conference 2024
Commentary on Myisha Cherry’s “Rage Renegades”
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Vanderbilt Philosophy Colloquium, December 2021, Nashville, TN
“Response to John Harfouch’s Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being”
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Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2019, Nashville, TN
Commentary on Gary Bartlett’s “Are Children Subject to Epistemic Injustice”
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43rd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference 2019, Memphis, TN