What I've been up to

and where you can read my work and study with me

Yes, I’m technically on Substack but I’m not sure I’ll posting here. For those who don’t already know me, I’m a legal scholar who works at the intersection of legal and political theory, US constitutional law, women’s history and Catholic social teaching. You can find all my published writing here and my academic articles here.

For the last year or so, Jessica Hooten Wilson and I have been working on an anthology of women writers (currently entitled Women in the Image of God). It is now happily under review at a university press (which means its still more than a year out from publication). I am now turning my attention to a new (trade) book…

When I’m not preparing lectures for universities and law schools, I am blessed to spend much of my time reading and re-reading important texts of Western civilization. I am happy to invite you to read along with me in courses I am now teaching at the University of St. Thomas and Arizona State University, having taught at the Abigail Adams Institute for the last several years.

The ASU course — Sex, Gender and Political Thought — will be designed as an asynchronous course and available this summer to upper level undergrads and grad students, visiting students from other universities, and non-degree seeking students (so adults out in the world). Once registration is open, I’ll post that here. Registration is now open: Undergrads register here and grad students here. Links re visiting and non-degree seeking students.

We’ll place proto-feminist and feminist thinkers in historical and philosophical context and consider the contested meanings of terms like authority, justice, equality, freedom, independence, duties and right(s) which are relevant to ‘feminist’ discourse today. We’ll read Plato, Aristotle, Genesis, Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Pizan, Luther, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Tocqueville, Grimke, Mott, JS Mill, SB Anthony, EC Stanton, M Sanger, De Beauvoir, Firestone, and medievalist Eileen Power, political theorists Hannah Arendt and Jean Bethke Elshtain, philosophers Prudence Allen, Edith Stein, and Elizabeth Anscombe, social critic Dorothy Sayers, historians C Lasch, Klem and McDowell, and contemporary thinkers like Mary Harrington, Amy Welborn, Abigail Favale, Mary Stanford, and yours truly.

As Editor-in-Chief of the online journal of sex-realist feminism, with a slate of outstanding writers, please visit us at FairerDisputations.org or follow us here —