Research

(Scroll down for penultimate versions of some of my recent papers...)

I write about justice and legitimacy, and about how liberal egalitarian theory can help us think better about--and 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. (Click HERE to recommend it to your librarian!) 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. I've written up a short, public-facing version of the argument for Boston Review.

My work-in-progress includes a coauthored book on equal educational opportunity for the History and Philosophy of Education book series, a book on intellectual diversity in higher education, various papers on non-ideal theory in political philosophy, and a project of unknown form on the moral and political significance of home. I've also written about diversity in the discipline of philosophy and more generally about teaching philosophy; about justice in higher education; about the ethics and politics of abortion; about the legitimacy of using social policy to curb the use and consumption of animals; and about other issues in feminist philosophy and philosophy of education.

To read more about my recent and current research projects, see my curriculum vitae.

Penultimate versions of select articles and chapters:

The Philosophy and Politics of Liberal Feminism

Culture and Injustice

The Case for Egalitarian Consciousness Raising in Higher Education

Justice and Legitimacy in Caregiver Support: Managing Tradeoffs between Gender Egalitarian and Economic Egalitarian Social Aims

Restricting Justice: Political Interventions in the Home and in the Market

Citizenship, Reciprocity, and the Gendered Division of Labor: A Stability Argument for Gender Egalitarian Political Interventions

Does the Gendered Division of Labor Undermine Citizenship?

Is the Gendered Division of Labor a Problem of Distribution?

Political Liberalism and Autonomy Education: Are Citizenship-Based Arguments Enough?

On Meeting Students Where They Are: Teacher Judgment and the Use of Data In Higher Education