Hi! I am the Catherine Shultz Rein Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Penn State's Department of Philosophy. I am also a Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute, and a member of the PPE Society's Ethics and Public Policy Working Group. I am an affiliate of The Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam's Political Theory department. Between 2016-2018, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's McCoy Center for Ethics in Society. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at King's College London in July 2016. I am a recipient of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
My primary research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, with a special focus on questions about migration, citizenship, and global justice. I also have developing interests in the philosophy of race, decolonial thought, and social epistemology. My first monograph, Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies (Oxford University Press), can be ordered here. There, I argue that social equality has a universal scope, and that non-citizens are entitled to be treated as social equals. Using this framework, I advance a distinctive critique of existing immigration policies. In conjunction, I pursue three lines of analysis: the moral status of skill-based immigrant selection, migrants' non-compliance with structurally unjust immigration laws, and the relationship between colonialism and immigration justice. My second book project, tentatively titled Internal Restrictions on Movement: A Reconsideration, is in progress.
In the unlikely event that you wish to hear me speak, I discuss the ethics of immigration on ABC's Philosopher's Zone podcast, and I talk about resisting colonialism on UCL's Uncovering Politics podcast.
The painting I've used throughout my webpage is a beautiful wave by Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet. It's not identical to the one I used to admire in Edinburgh's National Gallery, but it's close enough. My other favourite painting is Holbein's The Ambassadors, but that's a tad too sinister for a header image, don't you think?
(page last updated, albeit never to completion, on 10/08/23)
My primary research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, with a special focus on questions about migration, citizenship, and global justice. I also have developing interests in the philosophy of race, decolonial thought, and social epistemology. My first monograph, Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies (Oxford University Press), can be ordered here. There, I argue that social equality has a universal scope, and that non-citizens are entitled to be treated as social equals. Using this framework, I advance a distinctive critique of existing immigration policies. In conjunction, I pursue three lines of analysis: the moral status of skill-based immigrant selection, migrants' non-compliance with structurally unjust immigration laws, and the relationship between colonialism and immigration justice. My second book project, tentatively titled Internal Restrictions on Movement: A Reconsideration, is in progress.
In the unlikely event that you wish to hear me speak, I discuss the ethics of immigration on ABC's Philosopher's Zone podcast, and I talk about resisting colonialism on UCL's Uncovering Politics podcast.
The painting I've used throughout my webpage is a beautiful wave by Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet. It's not identical to the one I used to admire in Edinburgh's National Gallery, but it's close enough. My other favourite painting is Holbein's The Ambassadors, but that's a tad too sinister for a header image, don't you think?
(page last updated, albeit never to completion, on 10/08/23)