Curriculum Vitae (as PDF)

Employment

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rice University (2024- )

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Oberlin College (2020-24)

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rhode Island College (2017-20)

  • 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

  • Ethics

  • Social and political philosophy

Areas of Competence

  • Feminist philosophy

  • Philosophy of law

  • History of ethics and political philosophy

Research

Book

  • The Well-Rounded Life (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)

peer-reviewed

invited

TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS

  • “A Case for the Moral Permissibility of Abortion” and “Response to Lee on Abortion,” in Problems in Applied Ethics, ed. S. Cowan (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Press)

BOOK REVIEWS

Selected Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

  • Philosophy in Media Fellowship, Marc Sanders Foundation (2024)

  • Summer stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities (2023)

  • 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

  • “On Being Bad at Things”

    • Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference (keynote address), April 2025 

    • Minnesota Workshop on Well-Being, July 2023

    • Bled Conference on Ethics, June 2022

  • “Beneficence and Partial Compliance”

    • University of Houston, September 2024

  • “The Well-Rounded Life”

    • Bled Conference on Ethics, June 2024

  • “Why Ten Percent?”

    • Annual Symposium: Markets, Social Entrepreneurship, and Effective Altruism, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University, November 2022

  • “On Doing Good: The Future of Effective Altruism” (panel discussion)

    • Yale Philanthropy Conference, February 2022

  • “How and Why to Be Well-Rounded”

    • Kansas Workshop on Well-Being, July 2019

    • Rhode Island Philosophical Society (keynote address), October 2018

  • “Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice”

    • Bled Conference on Ethics, June 2018

  • “Ideal Theory and ‘Ought Implies Can’"

    • Claremont McKenna College, November 2015

Refereed

  • “Does Rossian Intuitionist Deontology Make Too Many Demands, or None at All?”

    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2025

    • Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 2024

  • “Who Gets to Be Well-Rounded?”

    • PPE Society Meeting, November 2024

  • “On Being Bad at Things”

    • American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division, January 2024

    • Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2023

    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2021

  • “The Tension between Integrity and Sociability” (with Craig Agule)

    • PPE Society Meeting, November 2023

    • Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 2023

    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2023

  • “Do Good Lives Make Good Stories?”

    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2020 (held remotely due to coronavirus)

    • Northeast Normativity Workshop, The College of New Jersey, April 2020 (postponed due to coronavirus)

  • “Is There a Duty to Read the News?”

    • McCoy Family Ethics Center Junior Scholars Workshop, Stanford University, June 2020 (postponed due to coronavirus)

  • “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, April 2018

    • PPE Society Meeting, March 2017

    • North Carolina Philosophical Society, 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

selected service to the profession

  • Member, American Philosophical Association Board of Officers (starting in July 2026)

  • Chair, American Philosophical Association Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement (starting in July 2026)

  • Ex officio member, American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession (starting in July 2026)

  • Associate chair, American Philosophical Association Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement (starting in July 2025)

  • Participant, workshop on Sarah Paul’s and Jennifer Morton’s book manuscript Striving, 2024

  • Member, American Philosophical Association Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, 2023-

  • Member, 2024 Central Division APA Program Committee, 2023-24

  • Member, 2023 Central Division APA Program Committee, 2022-23

  • Mentor, Philosophers’ Cocoon Job Market Mentoring Program, 2021-22

  • Director, Brown University Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy, 2019-20 (2020 program canceled due to coronavirus)

  • Member, American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, 2016-19

  • Member, American Philosophical Association Diversity Institute Advisory Panel, 2015-17

  • Co-organizer, UCSD Summer Program for Women in Philosophy, 2013-16

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