I'm a philosopher and feminist theorist. My research focuses on moral and political issues relevant to women in the global South. My work on adaptive preferences, including my first book Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment (Oxford University Press 2011), develops an approach to responding to choices made by oppressed and deprived people that perpetuate their own oppression and deprivation. My second book, Decolonizing Universalism, Transnational Feminist Ethics (under contract with Oxford University Press), concerns the normative commitments required for cross-border feminist solidarity.
My areas of research within philosophy include ethics and moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. I also work in the interdisciplinary field of development ethics. Some of the transnational practices I have analyzed in this work include microcredit, small-scale development interventions, and commercial gestational surrogacy.
I hold the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and am Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
You can download my cv here.
My areas of research within philosophy include ethics and moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. I also work in the interdisciplinary field of development ethics. Some of the transnational practices I have analyzed in this work include microcredit, small-scale development interventions, and commercial gestational surrogacy.
I hold the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and am Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
You can download my cv here.