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 2027 I will be based 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

'Shame and Being Looked Down Upon', 2026, The Philosophical Quarterly (online first)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqag053 [see here for draft]

'The Claim Against Inferiority?', 2026, Jurisprudence 17 (2): 311-18, with Han van Wietmarschen (special issue on Niko Kolodny's The Pecking Order)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2025.2603003 (open access)

A reply from Niko Kolodny was published in the same issue of Jurisprudence. See here. 

'Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism', 2026, Journal of Social Philosophy 57 (3): 287-296
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.