I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers-New Brunswick (on sabbatical '24-25).  I came to Rutgers in the fall of 2018 after spending 11 years at Cornell.  Before that, I was an assistant professor at Princeton as well as a post-doc at the Australian National University in Canberra.  Before THAT, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under the direction of Steve Yablo, Jim Joyce, Alan Gibbard, and Mark Crimmins.  Let's keep rewinding: I went to Oberlin College, attended a giant public high school in suburban Phoenix, and spent my childhood in rural central Pennsylvania, an area sometimes charmingly called 'Pennsyltucky'.  

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I live in Princeton with my husband, poet/critic David Orr, and our 7th grade daughter, who currently wants to be a classicist but would make an equally good screenwriter or assassin.  We also share our home with this old grey cat, and mourn the recent loss of her friend Snoop.  

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