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. 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.
My primary research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, with a special focus on questions about migration, citizenship, and global justice. My first monograph, Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. 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 Rethinking Internal Restrictions on Immigration, is in progress.
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 02/18/22)
My primary research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, with a special focus on questions about migration, citizenship, and global justice. My first monograph, Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. 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 Rethinking Internal Restrictions on Immigration, is in progress.
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 02/18/22)