Holly is a third year PhD Philosophy student. In 2016 she graduated from The University of Glasgow in Scotland with 1:1 M.A. Hons Philosophy. Holly is also pursuing a Ph.D. certificate in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies as well as the Graduate Teaching Excellence Certificate. 

Areas of Interest : Value Theory, Applied Ethics (Philosophy of Race, Law, Gender), Virtue Ethics, Political and Social Philosophy, Meta-Ethics 

Conferences Presentations

 “Race and Resistance” Conference at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. “An Alteration to Mills’ Racial Contract” April, 2018. 

 “Racial Justice Is Not Black or White” University of Iowa’s Graduate Jakobsen Conference March, 2018. 

 “An Argument Against The Use of the “N” Word By All” , The University of Utah, Graduate Philosophy Conference February, 2017.

 “An Argument Against The Use of the “N” Word By All”, Long Island Philosophical Society Conference, New York, April 2017.

 "The Ethics of the N Word."  University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society conference, November 2016.

Honors & Awards: University of Iowa's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2016-2017)