My research examines the relationship between privilege, oppression, and social-political life. In a world marked by pervasive injustice, I investigate how oppressive structures emerge and persist, and how we might build ethical, resilient social movements to dismantle them. I am also concerned with the virtues and dispositions necessary to foster cohesive political communities that enable both individual and collective flourishing.
My current projects address several interrelated questions:
How should those with privilege conduct themselves in social justice activism given their positional advantages?
What are the epistemic foundations of oppression, and how do oppressors employ epistemic manipulation to naturalize oppression and its language?
What normative constraints govern social justice activism, and how do our particular roles within movements shape these constraints?
How can we resist the naturalization of oppression and counter manipulative language that undermines good-faith political discourse?
What civic virtues are essential for citizenship in a just, democratic society, and how can they be cultivated in ourselves and others?