Hi! I'm Michelle.

My work in philosophy addresses questions about the nature and sources of "normativity." In other words, I'm interested in what we ought to do (or believe) and why. For instance, how do our moral obligations to other people arise? What is the source of other norms, like requirements of epistemic rationality, and why do they have authority over us? That is, why should we care about forming rational beliefs, and why might we ever have the standing to expect others to do the same? How do we discover the answers to these questions, anyway?

Before I joined the faculty at Tufts, I completed my PhD in philosophy at NYU and my BA in philosophy at Yale. As a doctoral student, I spent a semester on exchange at the École Normale Supérieure and the affiliated Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.

I'm from Beverly, Massachusetts. Whenever I'm not teaching, or thinking about philosophy, I'm most likely cooking (love seafood!), dancing ballet, or spending time outdoors by the water.