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

• "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.
• "Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell & Feminism" (forthcoming in 2023), Philosophical Women in Russell's Circle, Palgrave Macmillan
• “Care Ethics: Love, Care, and Connection,” (forthcoming in 2023), in Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, SUNY Press.

Publications for a broader audience

• “Season 3: Episode 2: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Illustrious Women: Interview with Allauren Samantha Forbes,” Extending New Narratives Podcast: New Voices in 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's Benevolent Education (co-auth)
• Margaret Cavendish's Social Epistemology 
• Himpathy, History, and Philosophy

​Works under contract

• ​Emotions: Love & Anger 
• Esteem and Self-Esteem in 19th and early 20th century Feminist Philosophers 

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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 seeks to examine 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. The project also seeks to examine the ways in which genre influenced what and how these philosophers theorized about marriage.

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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. You can check out our upcoming events here.