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.  

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