My most recent research focuses on the environmental and economic implications of insect farming. Before that, I received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2018 and subsequently spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as part of this project, a European Research Council grant led by Peter Adamson on the philosophy of animals in the Islamic world. My work in philosophy has been in social and political philosophy, ethics, and the intersection of these two fields and philosophy of religion. My dissertation, co-advised by Robert Audi and Paul Weithman, was on distributive justice. My subsequent social and political research has focused on developing a version of “social egalitarianism” (i.e., the view that what egalitarians should fundamentally care about is that people stand in equal social relations to one another) and exploring its implications for various contentious political issues. My work in ethics has covered a number of applied topics, including animal ethics, gun control, abortion, sexual objectification, career choice, and moral offsetting.
I have thirty papers or book chapters published or forthcoming, including, among others, pieces in Sustainable Production and Consumption, npj Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Humanity, Ergo, the Journal of Medical Ethics, Utilitas, the Journal of Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Res Publica, Bioethics, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, Faith and Philosophy, and edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Routledge. I am also a co-author of Applied Ethics: An Impartial Introduction, published by Hackett and a co-editor of the Routledge Little Debates About Big Questions series.