I am an assistant professor in the department of ethics, social and political philosophy at the University of Groningen. My primary areas of research are in feminist philosophy, phenomenology and social and political philosophy. I have a particular interest in questions of freedom, internalised oppression and agents’ complicity in their own unfreedom, especially in gendered contexts.
I have received multiple awards for my work on phenomenology and gender. In 2020, I was awarded the Robert Papzian Essay Prize for my paper “Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence.” In 2023, I received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of my work on deep-rooted issues in gender dynamics.
Before coming to Groningen, I worked in the UK. I received my PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London and held positions at Birkbeck and Oxford Brookes University. From 2012 to 2018, I served as an executive committee member for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK. At the University of Groningen, I am a member of the Centre for Gender Studies and a SCOOP fellow. As part of SCOOP, I am the primary supervisor for a project on complicity as motivated ignorance, as well as for an interdisciplinary PhD project on feminist notions of empowerment, co-supervised between philosophy and cultural studies. Since 2024, I have served as co-editor-in-chief for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
I am also interested in public philosophy and have given multiple public talks, including at the Cambridge Union and at the Groningen Night of Philosophy. From 2016 to 2023, when the magazine went online only, I wrote a regular column—later titled “Living the Life of the Mind”—for The Philosophers’ Magazine, where I discussed issues in the media related to gender through a philosophical lens.
