I am a Postdoctoral Associate in Ethics of Technology at the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in Spring 2022. 

My primary areas of research are the philosophy of emotions, as well as the ethics and epistemology of technology. My current research investigates some of the following questions.

• What are the proper dimensions of evaluation for emotions?

• Do emotions give us reasons for actions and evaluative judgments? 

• To what extent should we outsource emotional labor to artificial intelligence? 

• How does emotion recognition technology contribute to injustice? 

I also write philosophy for a general audience on popular culture, which is philosophically rich in its own right and offers an exciting way to convey the importance of philosophy to the public.

My teaching emphasizes the ubiquity of philosophical skills and ideas in everyday life.