ABOUT 

​As an interdisciplinary scholar with specializations in feminist epistemology, metaphysics of science, and social & political philosophy, I center my research on structural phenomena and their operations. This focus encompasses topics that span various sub-disciplines within philosophy and range over several fields of study, including areas in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. My approach to the research of structural oppression is an interdisciplinary one, bringing together multiple methodologies with the aim of generating necessary interventions into social-scientific and philosophical understandings of oppression.

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My work

In the metaphysics of science, my research focuses on the role of mathematics in the empirical sciences, the relationship of math to modality, and questions about laws of nature and natural necessity, and the relationship between structuralism in mathematics and ontic structural realism in the philosophy of physics.

In social & political philosophy and feminist epistemology, my work focuses on epistemic oppression and the social dimensions of knowledge within a background of intersecting structural oppressions. I investigate the inner workings of structural epistemic phenomena such as epistemic exploitation and structural gaslighting, and I explore the material effects of epistemic oppression.

Structural oppression and science have intertwining relationships, many of which have been mutually supportive and reinforcing. Scientific disciplines and theories have offered explanatory stories and arguments for the ‘naturalness’ of the presumed inferiorities of subordinated populations. Structural oppressions, in turn, provide background interpretive contexts in which scientific hypotheses and theories are evaluated, making purported scientific confirmations of, for instance, biological explanation of gendered differences in sexual behavior and racial health disparities, appear to be empirically well-established. Less often have science and scientific concepts been used to interrogate and intervene in the structural oppressions they have long reinforced. My work also explores the possibility of levying key scientific notions against structural oppressions and asking what might be needed for their disruption.
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