Books

Striving: The Agency and Epistemology of Uncertain Pursuits

With Sarah Paul. Forthcoming 2027, Oxford University Press.

What does it mean to strive toward a goal when the outcome is uncertain? This book examines the rationality of striving — the kind of sustained, effortful pursuit that shapes a life — even when success is far from guaranteed.

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Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

Princeton University Press, 2019

What does it cost to make it? For first-generation and low-income students, pursuing upward mobility often means leaving behind the communities, relationships, and values that shaped them. Moving Up Without Losing Your Way examines the ethical dimension of that journey — not just the obstacles, but what gets sacrificed along the way.