Staff profile

Academic Biography

I am currently an Associate Professor of Environmental and Political Philosophy at Durham University .

I serve as the Director of Sustainability for the Arts & Humanities as well as the Co-Director of the Centre for Environment and Humanities at Durham University. Additionally, I currently hold the role of Secretary of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. 

My areas of research and teaching specialty are in political philosophy, ethics (normative and applied), as well as climate and environmental politics. In my work I engage with matters of climate justice and governance, immigration, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and social justice. A central focus of my research addresses the moral, political, governance, and institutional challenges of “climate mobilities.” This includes voluntary and forced immobility and migration, in-situ adaptation, external and internal displacement, refugee flows, and planned relocation influenced by climate variability, slow, as well as rapid-onset climate impacts. While my research is grounded in normative and political theory, I engage with and contribute to interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, law, and policy.

Prior to joining the Philosophy Department at Durham University I was a Research Associate in the Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values, and Policy in Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute and the University Center for Human Values. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Mahindra Humanities Center as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation research cohort on Migration and the Humanities. I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and my MA in Philosophy from San Francisco State University in 2012.

• Climate Justice
• Climate Mobility
• Environmental Philosophy
• Ethics (Normative & Applied)
• Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Immigration
• Political and Social Philosophy