I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. I am also an Associate Editor at Linguistics and Philosophy and an Editorial Board Member at Meaning.
My research lies at the intersection of inquiry on representation and the social world. I am particularly interested in the nature of social groups (teams, committees, races, genders) and the ways we represent groups in thought and language (e.g., via kind representations or through nouns or generic statements). One central thread in my research is to show how metaphysics and insights about our mental and linguistic representational devices can help inform viable social-political projects. For more information on my research, click here.