curriculum vitae

Employment

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts (2008-present) 

• Professor of Philosophy

Stanford University, Stanford, California  (2007-2008)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Global Justice

Education  

M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts (2002-2007)

• PhD in Philosophy 

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (1997-2000)

• B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy 

• B.A. in Philosophy and French 

Awards

• ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, Stanford University (2019-20)

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program on Global Justice, Stanford University (2007)

Publications  

Books

• How To Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins (Bloomsbury USA, 2023)

• Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir  (The University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Papers

• "Narrative and Meaning in Life", Journal of Moral Philosophy 15:5 (2018), pp. 545-571

• "Justice and International Trade", Philosophy Compass 11:10 (2016), pp. 570-579 

• "How Association Matters for Distributive Justice", Journal of Moral Philosophy 13:2 (2016), pp. 161-186

• "Justice in Transnational Governance", Journal of Applied Philosophy 32:3 (2015), pp. 275-292

• "Risse on Justice in Trade", Ethics and International Affairs 28:4 (2014), pp. 489-499

• "Disaggregating Global Justice", Social Theory and Practice 39:3 (2013), pp. 422-448

• "The Many, not the Few: Pluralism about Global Distributive Justice", Journal of Political Philosophy 20:3 (2012), pp. 314-340

• "What's Special about the State?", Utilitas 23:2 (2011), pp. 140-160

• "The Cooperation Argument for Fairness in International Trade", Journal of Social Philosophy 42:2 (2011), pp. 192-218

Chapters

• "Exploitation in International Trade", in Ideas That Matter (Oxford University Press, 2019)

• "Local Food: The Moral Case", in Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson and Tyler Doggett (eds.), Food, Ethics and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Reviews

• Martha Nussbaum, Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 (Oxford, 2012), The Journal of Moral Philosophy 11:2 (2014)

• Aaron James, Fairness in Practice (Oxford, 2012), Philosophical Review 122:4 (2013)

• Nicole Hassoun, Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations (Cambridge, 2012), Ethics 123:1 (2012)

• Richard Miller, Globalizing Justice (Oxford, 2010), Ethics and International Affairs 25:3 (2011)

• Eric Posner and David Weisbach, Climate Change Justice (Princeton, 2010), Journal of Applied Philosophy 28:3 (2011), pp. 323-326

• Allen Buchanan, Human Rights, Legitimacy and the Use of Force (Oxford, 2010), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2010)

Other

• Entries (4) for The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy (eds.), Cambridge, 2014)

• Ethics cases (10) for World Politics: Interests, Interactions and Institutions (Jeffrey Frieden, David Lake and Kenneth Schultz, Norton 2009)

Non-academic Essays, etc.

• See list here

Teaching 

Wellesley College

Instructor:

• Introduction to Moral Philosophy

• Justice 

• Global Justice 

• Philosophy of Law

• Philosophy of Literature 

• Environmental Ethics 

• Democracy 

• Inequality (with David Lindauer, Economics)

• Seminar: Philosophy in the First Person 

• Seminar: The Meaning of Life 

• Seminar: Well-being and Morality 

• Seminar: International Ethics: Immigration, Trade, War

• Seminar: Liberalism 

Advisor of independent student research projects / honors theses on: 

• the foundations of human rights (2008-9); 

• natural law, political liberalism and same-sex marriage (Fall 2009); 

• climate change-related migration (2010-11, co-advisor); 

• the ethics of humanitarian intervention (Spring 2011)

• the ethics of poverty relief (Fall 2013)

• the role of self-interest in social contract theory (2013-14)

• informational privacy rights (Fall 2014)

• "free market fairness" (Fall 2014)

• libertarian paternalism in health care (Fall 2015)

• capital punishment (Fall 2016)

• epistemic injustice (2016-17)

• duties toward refugees (2017-18)

• the cognitive value of film (Fall 2017)

• the abolition of punishment (2021)

• the phenomenology of incarceration (2023-4)

Stanford University

Instructor:

• Introduction to Global Justice (Spring 2008)

Service

• I co-organize the Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP)

• I am chair of Wellesley’s faculty advisory boards for the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Students for an Accessible Wellesley (an organization supporting students with disabilities)

• I serve on Wellesley’s Peace and Justice Studies advisory board

• I am a member of the college’s Institutional Animal Care and Use committee

• I'm a member of Wellesley’s chapter of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine