Curriculum Vitae (as PDF)

Employment

• Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rhode Island College (2017- )

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill
  Core Faculty Member in the Joint UNC/Duke Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2016-17)

Education

• PhD, Philosophy, UC San Diego (2015)

• MA, Philosophy, UC San Diego (2013)

• BA, Philosophy (minor in government), magna cum laude, Claremont McKenna College (2008)

Areas of Specialization

• Political philosophy

• Ethics

Areas of Competence

• Feminist philosophy

• Philosophy of law

• History of ethics and political philosophy

Research

• "Ideal Theory and 'Ought Implies Can,'" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2018)

• "Effective Altruism: How Big Should the Tent Be?", Public Affairs Quarterly (2018)

• "Abortion and Miscarriage," Philosophical Studies (2017)

  • Reprinted in Exploring Moral Problems: An Introductory Anthology, eds. S. Cahn and A. Forcehimes (Oxford: Oxford University, 2017)

Selected Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

• American Fellowship, American Association of University Women (2014-15)

• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education (2009-13)

• Outstanding Graduate Student Leader, UCSD Graduate Student Association (2015)

• Faculty Research Group grant, UCSD Center for the Humanities (2011-12)

Selected Presentations

Invited

• “How and Why to Be Well-Rounded” (keynote address)

  • Rhode Island Philosophical Society, October 2018

• “Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice”

  • Bled Conference on Ethics, Bled, Slovenia, June 2018

• “Ideal Theory and ‘Ought Implies Can’"

  • Claremont McKenna College, November 2015

Refereed

• “How and Why to Be Well-Rounded”

  • American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division, April 2019

  • Einstein Ethics Early Career Conference in Moral and Political Philosophy, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, December 2018

• “Is There a Duty to Read the News?” (with Brookes Brown)

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2018

• “Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice”

  • Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2018

  • PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017

  • North Carolina Philosophical Society, Wilmington, North Carolina, February 2017

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2016

• “Effective Altruism: How Big Is the Tent?”

  • PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2018

• “Duties of Beneficence: Individual Not Collective”

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2017

• “Beneficence and Partial Compliance”

  • The Ethics of Giving, University of St. Andrews, May 2017

  • MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, September 2015

  • Giving for Global Poverty Relief: Ethical and Empirical Dimensions, Stanford University, April 2015

• “A Summer Program for Women in Philosophy: One Method for Plugging the Leaky Pipeline” (with Kathryn Joyce)

  • Why Are There So Few Women in Philosophy, and (Why) Does It Matter?, Stockholm University, April 2015

• “Ideal Theory and ‘Ought Implies Can’”

  • American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division, April 2015

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2014

  • Ideals and Reality in Social Ethics 2014, University of South Wales, April 2014

• “Flourishing and Autonomy”

  • MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, September 2012