Research

I work at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of race, and feminist philosophy. My current book project is on the metaphysics and ethics of changing one’s race. My work has been the topic of controversy, which you can learn more about here and here.

Books

• Transracialism: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Changing Race (under contract)

• Multidisciplinary Collection on Transraciality. co-edited with Molly McKibbin (in progress)

Articles & Chapters

• Putting the Appropriator Back in Cultural Appropriation. British Journal of Aesthetics (2021)

• The Case For Feminism

  • in Bob Fischer (ed.) College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You, NY: Oxford (2020)

  • in Bob Fischer (ed.) Ethics Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us. NY: Oxford (2019)

• Racial Transitions and Controversial Positions: Reply to Taylor, Gordon, Sealey, Hom, and Botts, Philosophy Today (2018)

  Articles in Special Symposium:

  • On Intellectual Generosity: A Response to Rebecca Tuvel’s ‘In Defense of Transracialism, by Chloë Taylor

  • Thinking through Rejections and Defenses of Transracialism, by Lewis Gordon

  • Transracialism and White Allyship: A Response to Rebecca Tuvel, by Kris Sealey

  • (Dis)Engaging with Race Theory: Feminist Philosophy’s Debate on ‘Transracialism’ as a Case Study, by Sabrina Hom

  • Race and Method: The Tuvel Affair, by Tina Botts

• In Defense of Transracialism, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2017)

• Sourcing Women's Ecological Knowledge: The Worry of Epistemic Objectification. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2015)

• Against the Use of Knowledge Gained from Animal Experimentation. Societies (2015)

Blogposts

• Changing Identities: Are Race and Gender Analogous? Blog of the American Philosophical Association (2020)