My main areas of research are feminist philosophy of science and philosophy of social science. Most recently I have published Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction (co-authored with Kristen Intemann). In philosophy of social science I work primarily on methodology including: conceptualizing and measuring democracy; the epistemology of case study research; and evidence for causal claims in the social sciences. I am a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Norco College and a research associate of the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) at Durham University (Durham, UK). I was an International Collaborator with the Narrative Science Project based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Mary Morgan, PI).

I was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh in Spring 2017. Watch a short video about my work there.

Books:

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction (co-authored with Kristen Intemann) 2024

Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science (co-edited with Kristen Intemann) 2021.

Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy, (edited with Anita M. Superson), Oxford University Press, 2012.

Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture, (edited with Joanne Waugh) Lexington Press, Bloomsbury 2013.

Also:

Bloomsbury book series coedited with Joanne Beil Waugh – Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices

Selected publications:

“Objectivity of Measurement in Political Science,” Philosophy of Science, 2025

“Evidential Partnerships and Multi-method Research in Political Science: Methodological, Evidential, and Causal Pluralisms,” in Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues Between Researchers and Philosophers edited by Yafeng Shan, 2024.

“Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science edited by Harold Kincaid and Jeroen Van Bouwel, 2023.

“Process Tracing in Political Science,” in Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing, and Knowing since 1800 edited by Mary S. Morgan, Kim M. Hayek, and Dominic J. Berry 2022.

“Feminist Science Studies: Reasoning from Cases,” in Making the Case: Feminist and Critical Race Philosophers Engage Case Studies edited by Heidi Grasswick & Nancy Arden McHugh, 2021. 

“Feminist Philosophy of Social Science,” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, ed. by Kim Q. Hall and Ásta, Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Feminist Methodology in the Social Sciences,” in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, edited by Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann, 2021

“Coherence Objectivity and Measurement: the Example of Democracy” Synthese 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02779-w

“Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology,” in The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology , ed. by Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, David Henderson, Nikolaj Pedersen, and Jeremy Wyatt, Routledge, 2021.

“Political Science Methodology: A Plea for Pluralism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.11.004

“Contemporary Standpoint Theory: Tensions, Integrations, and Extensions,” in Bloomsbury Companion to Feminism and Analytic Philosophy, ed. by Pieranna Garavaso, Bloomsbury Press, 2018.

“Process Tracing in Political Science: What’s the Story?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2017.

“Natural Experiments and Pluralism in Political Science,” Philosophy of Social Science, July-Sept. 2015.

“Feminist Standpoint Theory,” Chapter 8 in Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction (edited by Nancy Cartwright and Eleonora Montuschi), 2014.

Feminist philosophy of science: Values and objectivity. Philosophy Compass, 8(4), 413-23, 2013.

“The Role of Case Study Research in Political Science: Evidence for Causal Claims,” Philosophy of Science, December 2012.

“Evidence for Use: Causal Pluralism and the Role of Case Studies in Political Science,” Philosophy of Social Science, 41:1, 2011.Edited Books