Philosopher
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Beginning in 2025, I will be the Director and Founder of the Iowa Care Lab, a student-centered philosophical think tank for evaluating the range of existing caregiving practices and theorizing new practices. Trained as a political philosopher and feminist ethicist, I evaluate the role of care in human life and its tensions and complementarities with autonomy.
My published work advances a way of systematizing and tracking how care is provided. Examining who cares for whom reveals the parties’ defacto social status. I invented the arrow of care map to clarify who receives care and how much, thereby enabling us to look past many cultural assumptions that legitimate status quo arrangements.[1] In my first monograph, Freedom to Care (Routledge, 2020), I develop a care-responsive liberal theory that establishes that dependency care must be included in our assessments of distributive justice. The critical liberalism that I advance in Freedom to Care has been the subject of two journal symposia in international philosophy journals, The Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy (2021), and Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (2023), where the abstract is translated into French.
In my second book, Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory (Routledge, 2021), a coedited volume, Amy R. Baehr
and I bring together leading scholars of care in liberalism to establish that no liberalism can proceed without addressing care.
I was the principal investigator for a digital humanities video game called “Surviving the ‘Indifferents'”, which is designed to defamiliarize users' intuitions about care.
Major works in progress:
The philosophical monograph, Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World. In this book, I defend an intersectional liberalism. When autonomy is understood against the backdrop of interference, microaggressions, and extrusion, it becomes evident that personal autonomy is inextricable from the social conditions for care and belonging.
In the book Reproductive Justice for a Caring Society (Agenda Press, under contract), I collaborate with reproductive justice scholars
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and Lina-Maria Murillo to reorient care theory through the framework of reproductive justice.
My published work advances a way of systematizing and tracking how care is provided. Examining who cares for whom reveals the parties’ defacto social status. I invented the arrow of care map to clarify who receives care and how much, thereby enabling us to look past many cultural assumptions that legitimate status quo arrangements.[1] In my first monograph, Freedom to Care (Routledge, 2020), I develop a care-responsive liberal theory that establishes that dependency care must be included in our assessments of distributive justice. The critical liberalism that I advance in Freedom to Care has been the subject of two journal symposia in international philosophy journals, The Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy (2021), and Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (2023), where the abstract is translated into French.
In my second book, Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory (Routledge, 2021), a coedited volume, Amy R. Baehr
and I bring together leading scholars of care in liberalism to establish that no liberalism can proceed without addressing care.
I was the principal investigator for a digital humanities video game called “Surviving the ‘Indifferents'”, which is designed to defamiliarize users' intuitions about care.
Major works in progress:
The philosophical monograph, Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World. In this book, I defend an intersectional liberalism. When autonomy is understood against the backdrop of interference, microaggressions, and extrusion, it becomes evident that personal autonomy is inextricable from the social conditions for care and belonging.
In the book Reproductive Justice for a Caring Society (Agenda Press, under contract), I collaborate with reproductive justice scholars
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and Lina-Maria Murillo to reorient care theory through the framework of reproductive justice.
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