Her BA is from Swarthmore College and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Kant scholar (and author of Cambridge University Press’s 2010 An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy); she writes and teaches on race, gender, photography, classical logic, and Hegel, among other things; she is currently at work on three projects, one of which is a book on whiteness. Her work has received support from the NEH and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), and she is the recipient of a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens.