I am PhD candidate in philosophy at Queen’s University.

Before coming to Queen’s, I completed my B. A. (Hons.) in philosophy at McGill University and my M. A. in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

My areas of specialization are political philosophy and normative ethics. More specifically, I work on questions concerning the ethics of membership; the boundaries of democracy, territory, and justice; and the nature and scope of relational or role-related special obligations.

My dissertation addresses an issue of growing interest among democratic theorists known as the boundary problem. Across five chapters, it aims at (1) generating evaluative criteria against which to assess candidate principles of democratic inclusion, (2) demonstrating why leading principles can be expected to fare poorly against these criteria, and (3) defending a place-based account of democratic membership.

My doctoral research is supervised by Will Kymlicka. Margaret Moore and Andrew Lister make up the rest of the doctoral committee.