I am a philosophy professor who interprets the social world and seeks to change it, too. I study the nature and meaning of social categories—things like race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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My current research question is: how do social categories operate in a diverse, fragmented, and ambiguous social world? In a series of papers, I argue that social categories are often indeterminate and scalar (viz., come in degrees).

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. I received my PhD in Philosophy from MIT in 2017. I received my BA in Philosophy from UNC Chapel Hill in 2012. I specialize in metaphysics and philosophy of language.

I am a national leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a member-based political organization with over 80,000 members. DSA believes that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. 

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Last updated:11/1/22