Dissertation

My dissertation explores the place of non-human animals in the political sphere. While philosophers have seriously engaged ethical issues concerning animals for over four decades, political theorists generally have not considered the ways our legal and political institutions must change to include other animals. However, many working in animal ethics have not fully appreciated the political dimension of our relations to other animals, and this hampers efforts to fully articulate our positive, collective obligations to other animals. My dissertation addresses these gaps. I defend the view that animals are deserving of much greater political inclusion and offer new ways to think about the political status of different kinds of animals (wild, 'liminal,' and domesticated).

Publications

"Political Agency, Citizenship, and Nonhuman Animals" in Res Publica (2017)
"A Moral Argument for Veganism" ​(with Nathan Nobis) in Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments on the Ethics of Eating, Routledge (2016)  

Reviews

Review of The Moral Rights of Animals in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2016)
Review of Animal Politics and Political Animals in Journal of Animal Ethics (2016)
​"Moral Animals? A Review of Mark Rowland's Can Animals Be Moral?" in Journal of Animal Ethics (2014)

Works in Progress

"Eating and the Environment" (with Nathan Nobis), under contract for the Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics
"Animals and Political Standing" under contract for Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (Palgrave Macmillan)
"A Problem for the Special Moral Status of Persons"