ABOUT ME

​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 interdisciplinary fields of study, including areas in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. I approach the research of structural oppression from an interdisciplinary perspective, allowing me to bring together multiple methodologies that generate a needed intervention into social-scientific investigations of oppression.

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MY WORK

My research in the metaphysics of science 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. I work on structuralism in math and science, and I am particularly interested in the relationship between structuralism in mathematics and ontic structural realism in the philosophy of physics.

My work in feminist epistemology 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, structural gaslighting, and administrative violence, and I outline the everyday material effects of epistemic oppression.

Structural oppression and science have many intertwining and intimate relationships. Most of these relationships have been mutually supportive and reinforcing. Scientific disciplines and theories have offered explanatory stories and foundational 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 current work explores the possibility of levying key scientific notions against structural oppressions by theorizing their robustness and asking what might be needed for their genuine disruption.
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