My main areas of research are philosophy of science, with an emphasis on the social sciences, and feminist epistemology. Most recently I have been working on issues of methodology in political science including measuring democracy, the epistemology of case study research, and evidence for causal claims in the social sciences. Although retired from teaching, I continue to be engaged in many professional activities. I am a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Norco College, a research associate of the Centre for Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) at Durham University (Durham, UK), and 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 Professor in the Gender Studies Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science from January-March 2019 and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh in Spring 2017. Watch a short video about my work there.

Current Projects:

Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science (co-edited with Kristen Intemann) forthcoming November 2020.

Lexington book series coedited with Joanne Beil Waugh - Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices

Selected recent publications:

Journal articles and book chapters

• "Coherence Objectivity and Measurement: the Example of Democracy"(forthcoming in Synthese)

• "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, 2019.
  
  
• "Political Science Methodology: A Plea for Pluralism," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2018, 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.

• “Bias in Social Science Experiments,” Chapter 17, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, ed. by Lee McIntyre and Alex Rosenberg, 2017.

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

• "The Measure of Democracy: Coding in Political Science," in Standardization in Measurement: Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Issues (edited by Oliver Schlaudt and Lara Huber), 2015.

• "Feminism, Causation, and Mixed Methods Research," in The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Inquiry (edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and R. Burke Johnson), 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

• 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, 2013.