I am a political philosopher at the Chair of Philosophy and Political Theory, LMU Munich. I currently hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on my project The Ethics of Stigma. From January to August 2027 I will be on secondment at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

My work addresses themes such as stigma, social hierarchy, the practice of shaming, and the emotion of shame. I have instructed undergraduate and masters students on topics connected to my research, as well as on broader issues in moral, political, and social philosophy. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I have been based in Munich since 2023, initially funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2023 I was awarded my PhD at the Department of Philosophy, University College London (UCL). I am originally from Scotland.

Publications

'The Claim Against Inferiority?', forthcoming, Jurisprudence, with Han van Wietmarschen (special issue on Niko Kolodny's The Pecking Order) 

'Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism', 2024, Journal of Social Philosophy (online first)
doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12595 (open access)

'Performative Shaming and the Critique of Shame', 2024, Thought (online first)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20245228 (open access)

'Stigma: The Shaming Model', 2024, European Journal of Philosophy 32 (3): 860-875
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12883 (open access)

'Stigma, Stereotype, and Self-Presentation', 2023, Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (4): 746-759
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12676 (open access)

A reply to this article by Roger López was also published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. See here.