About

Education

I received my PhD (2015) and MA (2009) from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, and I earned my BA in Philosophy from Oklahoma State University.

Research

My research focuses on the philosophy of science, particularly the social dimension of knowledge creation. In my dissertation, Analogical Reasoning and Scientific Practice: The Problem of Ingrained Analogy, I analyze a potential problem that arises when scientific communities indiscriminately rely on analogies that underwrite metaphor as part of their practice. To address this problem, I argue for strategies that exploit epistemic diversity as part of a constructive account of analogical reasoning.

Indiana University

Currently, I am an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine with a joint appointment in the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program. I am also working on a book about Indigenous allyship.

University of Windsor

While at the University of Windsor, I was an Assistant Professor and President’s Indigenous Peoples Scholar. I taught a variety of courses, such as Philosophy and Language and Indigenous Thought of the Americas. I received several internal grants to develop an Indigenous Philosophy workshop for high school students in the local district and edit Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island. [Link]

DePauw University

When at DePauw University, I was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellow. I had the opportunity to teach courses like Feminism and Science, Native American Philosophy, and Ethical Issues in Indian Country. During my CFD Fellowship, I was awarded a Diversity and Inclusion Grant from the American Philosophical Association to develop the Inclusive Summer High School Institute for Philosophy (ISHIP) at The Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. As part of ISHIP, eighteen high school students from across the United States spent a week on the DePauw campus with faculty mentors, learning about philosophy. I am honored and excited to have created a program that introduces the benefits of philosophy to high school juniors from social groups that are underrepresented in the discipline.