I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University. I am also affiliated with Rice's Medical Humanities Program.

​From 2019-2022, I was Assistant Professor at Albany Medical College in the Department of Bioethics Education and Research. From 2017-2019, I was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. In 2017, I completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where I wrote a dissertation under the direction of Susan Wolf. I did my undergraduate work at Cornell University, where I wrote an honors thesis supervised by Derk Pereboom.

My primary philosophical fields are normative ethics, moral psychology, and bioethics. I am interested in the ways in which social strength and weakness inform the way we feel and express moral emotions and shape our interpersonal relationships, including doctor-patient interactions. 

​You can email me at [email protected].

Edited Book

• Morality in its Place: Essays on the Work of Susan Wolf, co-editor with Vida Yao (Routledge, under contract)

Papers
Ethics

• “Guilt: The Debt and the Stain,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, forthcoming ​(draft)
• “Rank Offence: The Ecological Theory of Resentment,” Mind, 2021 (pre-print)
• “‘I Love Women’: An Explicit Explanation of Implicit Bias Test Results,” (with Vida Yao), Synthese, 2021
• “Anger: Scary Good,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
• “Responsibility and the Shallow Self,” Philosophical Studies, 2018

 
Applied Ethics

• “Patient Advocacy and Patient Rights,” (with Elizabeth Reis), Hastings Center Report, forthcoming
• “Disrespect for Deontology,” American Journal of Bioethics (open peer commentary in response to Pierson et al., “Bioethicists Today,”), forthcoming
• “Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics,” Hastings Center Report, 2023
• “Death Row Organ Donation, Revisited,” (with Laura Hansman), Bioethics, 2023
• “Rationing Ventilators,” (with Megan Applewhite), in Difficult Decisions in Surgical Ethics, eds. Vassyl Lonchyna, Peggy Kelley, and Peter Angelos (Springer, 2022)
• “The Irrelevance of Data to the Ethics of Infant Intersex Surgery,” (with Elizabeth Reis), Journal of Pediatric Ethics, 2021
• “The Ethics of Elective Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Idiopathic Short Stature,” (with Kevin Kecskemeti (first author)), Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2021
• “Are Conscientious Objectors Morally Obligated to Refer?,” (with Abram Brummett), Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021
• “Ethical Considerations in Vaccine Allocation,” (with Megan Applewhite), Immunological Investigations, 2021
• “Tolerance for Uncertainty and Professional Development: A Normative Analysis,” (with Martha Gerrity and Gail Geller), Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021
• “The Need for a Unified Ethical Stance on Child Genital Cutting,” (with Brian Earp (first author), Arianne Shahvisi, and Elizabeth Reis), Nursing Ethics, 2021
• “Understanding Autonomy: An Urgent Intervention,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2020
•  “Rehabilitating Blame,” in Ethics and Error in Medicine, eds. Fritz Allhoff and Sandra Borden (Routledge, 2019)
• ‘“What’s in a name?’: The University of Oregon, De-Naming Controversies, and the Ethics of Public Memory” (With Matthew Dennis), Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2019
• “What ‘Just Culture’ Doesn’t Understand About Just Punishment,” Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018
• “Gun Violence, Shame, and Social Change,” (With Nancy Berlinger), Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, 2018
• “Freezing Eggs and Creating Patients: Moral Risks of Commercialized Fertility,” (with Elizabeth Reis), Hastings Center Report, 2017
• “Are Pediatricians to Blame for Unnecessary Genital Surgeries?” (with Elizabeth Reis), American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 2017 

 
Reviews

• The Limits of Free Will by Paul Russell, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2021
• Rethinking Health Care Ethics by Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska, Monash Bioethics Review, 2020