Prior to joining the Philosophy Department at UVM, She received her PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and her BA from Williams College. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of epistemology, metaethics, and the philosophy of mind. Three questions guide most of her work: (1) « What are beliefs? » (2) « What does it take to believe in ways that conform with epistemic norms? » and (3) « Why it is that epistemic norms have the distinctive kind of normative authority and force that they have? » She approaches these questions as inextricably intertwined and with the conviction that they are most fruitfully explored as a set—her aim is to develop a unified epistemological account that answers all three.