My research focuses primarily on ethics, social epistemology, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Across these areas, I examine how social practices and institutions shape moral responsibility, epistemic authority, and philosophical inquiry. Drawing on feminist philosophy and social philosophy, I investigate how our relationships with others influence what we owe, what we know, and how we learn.

Research Interests

• Ethics
• Social Epistemology
• Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Education
• Applied Ethics
• Artificial Intelligence

Works in Progress

• Playful Pedagogy and Resisting the Norm of Seriousness – Explores how playful teaching practices can cultivate intellectual curiosity, intrinsic motivation, and authentic philosophical engagement in the age of generative AI.

• Signaling Vice, Status, and Nonmoral Virtues (with Ricky Mouser) – Argues that vice signaling communicates not only moral commitments but also epistemic, social, practical, and aesthetic virtues, as well as claims about social status.

• Gendering AI and the Womanification of Digital Personas – Investigates the ethics of designing AI assistants and digital agents as women, and the ways these technologies reinforce gendered norms surrounding care, service, and emotional labor.

• The Menu Approach to Grading – Based on an IRB-approved empirical study examining whether increased student autonomy through assignment choice promotes motivation, engagement, and deeper learning in philosophy courses.

Selected Publications

• “Experiential Deference: A Reason for Optimism About Moral Deference” (forthcoming in Synthese)

• “Solidarity Over Charity: Mutual Aid as a Moral Alternative to Effective Altruism” (Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal)

• “Why We Ought to Defer: Moral Deference and Marginalized Experience” (Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, with Elizabeth Williams)

• “Flipping the Logic Classroom” (Teaching Philosophy)

For a complete list of publications, please see my CV.