Research

My research discusses what it is like to be embodied in a social world. How are norms governing the body’s appearance, such as beauty standards, shaped by gender and race? What does it feel like to be objectified? What bodily habits do we adopt when interacting with people of different social backgrounds than our own?

Many contemporary theories work with an eye toward combating gender and racial oppressions; it is in this sense that they are “critical.” My approach is not only critical but also phenomenological: it is premised on studying the lived experience of individuals oppressed based on their gender or race, and of members of privileged groups. Critical phenomenological projects, such as mine, promise theories that are continuous with everyday concerns about racism and sexism since they adopt our lived experiences as their starting point. Below you'll find links to my research papers and CV.

Embodiment and Body Positivity:

2020. “The Embodied Biased Mind.” In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, eds. Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva. New York: Routledge.
2020. “What Reason Is There in the Body? Bodily Suffering and Happiness.” In Nietzsche and Epicurus, eds. Vinod Acharya and Ryan Johnson. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2019. "What Is Body Positivity? The Path from Shame to Pride." Philosophical Topics 47 (2): 113-127.

Feminist Philosophy:

2021. "The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir." In the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, eds. Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdottir and Kim Q. Hall. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019. “Anatomy of the Thigh Gap.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 5 (1).
2019. “Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Art of Living.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (3): 448–460.
2015. “ ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’: The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir’s Account of Woman.” In Feminist Moments, eds. Susan Bruce and Kathy Smits. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Philosophy of Race:

2023. “The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities.” APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies 23 (1): 3–7.
2023. "Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race." In Horizons of Phenomenology, eds. Patrick Londen, Philip Walsh, and Jeffrey Yoshimi.
2022. “Bodily Alienation and Critical Phenomenologies of Race.” Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 5 (4): 125-127.
2020. “ ‘What Are You?’: Addressing Racial Ambiguity.” Critical Philosophy of Race 8 (1-2): 292-307.
2018. “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: Affective Environment and Mindfulness Meditation.” Critical Philosophy of Race 6 (2): 164–179.

Social and Political Philosophy:

2021. “Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (5): 273-288.
2019. “ ‘The Audacity of Hope’: Reclaiming Obama’s Optimism in the Trump Era.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (2): 256–267.
2018. “Anger as a Political Emotion: A Phenomenological Perspective.” In The Moral Psychology of Anger, eds. Myisha Cherry and Owen Flanagan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Book Reviews:

2024. "Review of Myisha Cherry's Failures of Forgiveness." Ethics.
2023. "Review of Manon Garcia's We Are Not Born Submissive." Hypatia Reviews Online.
2022. "Review of The Case for Rage." The Philosophers' Magazine.
2022. "Review of Hope Under Oppression." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2019. "Review of A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir." Spring 2019 APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.
2019. "Review of Helen Ngo’s The Habits of Racism." Critical Philosophy of Race 7 (1): 212–217.

Reference:

2021. "Beauvoir, Simone de." Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.

For more on my research, please consult my CV.