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Employment
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, since 2023
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, since 2023
- Affiliated with the Critical Theory Cluster, since 2023
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2020
M.A. Philosophy, Tufts University, 2011
B.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2009
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2020
M.A. Philosophy, Tufts University, 2011
B.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2009
Specialization
AOS: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Marx and Marxism
AOC: Race and Gender, Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy
AOS: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Marx and Marxism
AOC: Race and Gender, Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
- "The Unity of Marx's Concept of Alienated Labor," The Philosophical Review 133(1), January 2024, pp. 33–71, doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10935339
- "The Difficulty of Making Good Work Available to All," Journal of Applied Philosophy 41(2), May 2024, pp. 267–288 https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12685
- "Freedom, Desire, and Necessity: Autonomous Activity as Activity for Its Own Sake," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 24(3), April 2023, pp. 434–465, https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v24i3.2224
Awards
- Jean Hampton Prize, American Philosophical Association, 2023
- Humanities Hub Research Fellowship, Clemson University, Summer 2021
- Vigneron Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2018–2019
- Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2011–2016
- M.A. Tuition Remission, Tufts University 2009–2011
Selected Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Talks
Peer-Reviewed Talks
- "The Unity of Marx's Concept of Alienated Labor" (awarded the Jean Hampton Prize), Symposium Session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2023
- "Two Faces of Alienated Labor in Marx," Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom, July 2022
- “The Difficulty of Securing Good Work for All,” Conference on the Future of Work: Philosophical and Economic Perspectives, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2022
- “Sticks and Carrots: A Privative Form of Instrumental Rationality,” St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality, University of Missouri, St. Louis, May 2022
- “Two Faces of Alienated Labor in Marx,” Spring Workshop of the Indiana Philosophical Association, Wabash College, March 2022
- “Incentives Compromise Autonomy: The Unfreedom of Extrinsically Motivated Activity,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, delivered online, January 2022
- “Equality Is Not Enough: Freedom, Work, and the Limits of Republicanism,” Workshop on Labor Justice and the Transformation of Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, delivered online, July 2021
- “Incentives Compromise Autonomy,” Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, United Kingdom, delivered online, July 2021
- “Two Faces of Alienated Labor: Why ‘Meaningful Work’ Is Not Enough,” Annual Conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society, delivered online, June 2021
- “Why We Work,” Colloquium on the Ends of Autonomy, Monash University, Australia, delivered online, December 2020
- “Why We Work,” Workshop on Ethical Issues in Today’s Turbulent World, Georgia Philosophical Society, delivered online, October 2020
- Title TBD, Practical Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, upcoming in October 2024
- "Social Alienation in Capital," Bayreuth Rotterdam Colloquium in Social and Political Philosophy, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, April 2024
- "Social Alienation in Capital," Marxism and Philosophy Association, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Portland, Oregon, March 2024
- "Sticks and Carrots," Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Illinois Chicago, November 2023
- "Work and Its Unfreedom: The Fix Is Social, Not Technological," Conference on Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work, University of Massachusetts Boston, November 2023
Selected Teaching
Instructor of Record, Northwestern University
Instructor of Record, Northwestern University
- Graduate Seminar: Theories of Exploitation, upcoming in Spring 2025
- Undergraduate Seminar: Marx, Fall 2024
- Gender, Politics, and Philosophy: Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Spring 2023 and Fall 2024
- Undergraduate First-Year Seminar: Work, Spring 2023
- Graduate Seminar: Marx, Fall 2023
- Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Fall 2023 and upcoming in Spring 2025
- Modern Philosophy, Spring 2023
- Independent Study: Unpaid Household Labor, Spring 2023
- Gender, Race, and Class, Fall 2022
- Ninteenth Century Philosophy, Fall 2021
- Introduction to Ethics, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Spring 2023
- Introduction to Logic, Fall 2020 and Fall 2022
- Freedom and Its Absence, Spring 2018
- Moral Luck, Fall 2015
- Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Fall 2016