Academic Positions
University of Pennsylvania
- Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy, 2024–Present
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2021–2024
- Secondary Appointment, Graduate School of Education, 2021–present
- Graduate Chair of the Philosophy Department, 2024–2027
Center for Ethics and Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Senior Faculty Fellow, 2015–present
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2020–2021
City College of New York–CUNY
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2018–2019
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2011–2018
- K. Irani Fellow in Philosophy, 2010–2011
Graduate Center–CUNY
- Affiliated Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2018–2019
Princeton University Center for Human Values
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, 2015–2016
Swarthmore College
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2008–2010
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Stanford University
- A.B., Princeton University
Grants, Fellowships & Awards (Selected)
- Penn Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2024–2025)
- University of Pennsylvania SAS Working Group Grant [$5,000] (2024–2025)
- Guggenheim Fellowship [$60,000] (2023–2024)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Faculty Fellowship, Stanford [$81,000] (2023–2024)
- Grawemeyer Award in Education, University of Louisville [$100,000] (2023)
- University of Pennsylvania SAS Conference Support Grant [$2,000] (2022)
- University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant [$3,000] (2022)
- Association of American Colleges & Universities Frederic W. Ness Book Award (2021)
- Philosopher’s Annual Best Paper Selection (2019)
- Australasian Association of Philosophy Best Paper Award (2018)
- CUNY Book Completion Award (2018)
- CCNY Rifkind Divisional Teaching Award (2017–2018)
- Inaugural Israel Scheffler Philosophy of Education Prize, APA (2017)
- Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Grant (with Sarah Paul), Templeton Foundation [$62,522] (2016–2017)
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University [$50,000] (2015–2016)
- Winner, APA Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest (2013)
- Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy Research Grant, Spencer Foundation [$39,000] (2011–2012)
- NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship (2010)
Publications
Books
- Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility. Princeton University Press, 2019.
- Striving: Uncertain Agency (with Sarah Paul). Forthcoming 2027, Oxford University Press.
Articles (Selected)
- “A Teacher’s Dilemma.” Aquinas Lectures 2025, Marquette University Press.
- “Trapped in the Present: Poverty and the Undermining of Prospective Agency.” Political Philosophy (2024).
- “Educational Case Studies and Speaking for Others.” Educational Theory (2024).
- “Inequality in Planning Capacity.” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2023).
- “Resisting Pessimism Traps.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2022).
- “Flourishing in the Academy.” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (2021).
- “The Miseducation of the Elite.” Journal of Political Philosophy (2020).
- “Mitigating Ethical Costs in the Classroom.” Daedalus (2019).
- “Grit.” (With Sarah Paul.) Ethics (2019). [Philosopher’s Annual 2019]
- “Believing in Others.” (With Sarah Paul.) Philosophical Topics (2018).
- “Reasoning Under Scarcity.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2017). [Best Paper Award]
- “The Educator’s Dual Role.” Educational Theory (2016).
- “Unequal Classrooms.” Philosophical Inquiry in Education (2016).
- “Cultural Code-Switching.” Journal of Political Philosophy (2014).
- “Deliberating for Our Far Future Selves.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2013).
- “Towards an Ecological Theory of the Norms of Practical Deliberation.” European Journal of Philosophy (2011).
See Research for a complete list including book chapters, reviews, and popular press.
Selected Lectures & Presentations
2026
APA Central Meeting (with Sarah Paul) · Anbar Lecture, Syracuse · Wellesley College Pinanski Lecture · Keynote, Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Analítica, Lima, Peru
2025
Oxford Nuffield Political Theory Workshop · LSE Political Theory Workshop · Harvard Philosophy Colloquium · Yale Law School Legal Theory Workshop · Jemison Lectures, University of Alabama · Aquinas Lecture, Marquette University
2024
NYU Abu Dhabi · UC San Diego · UC Santa Barbara · Claremont McKenna · Ethics and Society at Stanford · Cornell Moral Psychology NEH Seminar · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs · Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
2023
UC Santa Cruz · Stanford Education & Humanities Workshop · Wake Forest · Penn MindCore · Mt. Holyoke · Grawemeyer Award Lecture · Jeremiah Project Conference Keynote · Apple University
2022
Brown Political Theory Colloquium · Stanford Political Theory Workshop · Princeton Political Theory Workshop · University of Maryland · Keynote, Central States Philosophical Association · Keynote, FGLI Consortium, Notre Dame · Ohio State
2021
Ness Book Award Keynote, AAC&U · Ohio State · Wharton Work In Progress · Tel Aviv University · Brandeis · Duke · APA Eastern · University of Warwick · University of Reading · Georgia State · University of Arizona · Princeton Convocation
Earlier presentations available on request.
Service (Selected)
American Philosophical Association
- Member-at-Large, APA Board of Officers (2021–2024)
- Program Committee, Eastern Division (2021–2022)
- Committee on Hispanics in the Profession (2019–2022)
- Committee on Teaching (2014–2017)
Journal Work
- Area Editor: Philosophers Imprint (2024–present), Ergo (2018–2023), Philosophy Compass (2019–2023), Educational Theory (2016–2020)
- Editorial Board: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (2023–present)
Student Supervision
- Ph.D. Co-Chair: Tyler Re, Sara Purinton (Penn Philosophy)
- Ph.D. Committee Member: Lucia Dikaczova, Afton Greco, Dustin Webster, Vanessa Schipani, Marie Barnett, Gary Mitchell, Pavel Nitchovski, Matthew Hernandez, Jules Salome, Jonathan Kwan, Nick Tanchuk