While I am passionate about feminist philosophy as a whole, I am especially excited about the historically-overlooked women philosophers of the early modern period.

Publications

Works in progress

Journal Articles

• Prejudice as Viciousness: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo (2023), The Southern Journal of Philosophy
• Madeleine de Scudéry on Conversation and its Feminist Ends (2022), British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• Astell, Friendship, and Relational Autonomy (2021), European Journal of Philosophy.
• Mary Astell on Bad Custom and Epistemic Injustice (2019), Hypatia 

Book Chapters

• "Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell & Feminism" (2024), Philosophical Women in Russell's Circle, Palgrave Macmillan
• “Care Ethics: Love, Care, and Connection,” (2024), in Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, SUNY Press.
• "Mary Astell" (2023), Reconsidering Political Thinkers, Oxford University Press.
• "Friendship as a Means to Freedom" (2023), The Routledge Handbook on Women and Early Modern Philosophy.

​Publications for a broader audience

• "Mary Astell," for the Wise Women series on Philosophy Talk: The program that questions everything" (2023).  Hosted by Josh Landy and Ray Briggs, via KALW 91.7 FM and Stanford University.
• “Season 3: Episode 2: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Illustrious Women: Interview with Allauren Samantha Forbes,” (2023) Extending New Narratives Podcast: New Voices in the History of Philosophy"
• Review: Elisabeth of Bohemia: A Philosopher in Her Historical Context, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton, eds. (2023) Journal of the History of Philosophy.
• “Mary Astell” (2022), Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, Oxford University Press 
• “A woman philosopher calls out misogyny in the 17th century” (2020) in Aeon.
• “Mary Astell and Theories of Friendship” (2018) Project Vox’s blog Revealing Voices

Works in development

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• Catharine Macaulay & Mary Wollstonecraft on Reasoned Benevolence (co-auth)
• Marriage and Alienated Labour: Cavendish on Chastity
• Himpathy, History, and Philosophy

​Works under contract

• ​Emotions: Love & Anger 
• Margaret Cavendish's Social Epistemology 
• Esteem and Self-Esteem in 19th and early 20th century Feminist Philosophers 
• Astell & Malebranche

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Research Grants

I currently hold a SSHRC Insight Development grant ($61,724) for the project "The Metaphysics of Marriage: Modern Women Philosophers." Broadly, this project examines the ways in which modern women philosophers conceived of marriage as a philosophical concept and how their theorizing was embedded in larger ongoing socio-political debates (e.g., about slavery, political obligation, and about alienated labor). The project also seeks to examine the ways in which genre influenced what and how these philosophers theorized about marriage.

I, along with Elena Gordon, also hold a SSHRC Connection Grant for our upcoming event Women and Epistemic Emotions in the Early Modern Period at McMaster University on October 25-27 2024. Our event website is https://wephil.humanities.mcmaster.ca/. ​

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Research networks on early modern philosophers

Although research on early modern women philosophers is still fairly recent - only a few decades! - there is an extensive and productive research community. Below are links to some of the larger hubs of researchers working on these exciting and historically overlooked philosophers.

• Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - link
• The Center for New Narratives in Philosophy - link
• Project Vox - link
• Center for Canon Expansion and Change - link
• Feminist History of Philosophy - link
• History of Women Philosophers and Scientists - link

And, in shameless self-promotion, some friends and fellow Astell researchers and I started the Friends of Mary Astell, an APA-affiliated group focused on Astell scholarship. The group is on hiatus, but you can check out our website (under development)  here.