I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Economy Project and Lecturer in Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth I was Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and core faculty in the PPE Program.  I also employ the world's most incompetent RA. His name is Nigel. 

 My research primarily concerns issues in social and political philosophy surrounding challenges to the liberal commitment to economic growth. Not coincidentally, I have a strong historical interest in the Scottish Enlightenment. Sometimes I also think about idealization and modeling in the philosophy of science, and its links to methods in political philosophy. 

I finished my PhD in the department of philosophy at Brown University in 2020. Before that, I received my MA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and my BA at THE Ohio State University. When I'm not doing philosophy, I enjoy watching sports and walking up hills. 

Here's a copy of my CV

Here's my Google Scholar page

Here's my Philpapers page

My email address is kirun dot sankaran at dartmouth dot edu.