My research includes projects in ethics, political philosophy, and early modern feminist philosophy. In my dissertation, defended in Fall 2025, I advance an original account of what goes wrong in central cases of discrimination in a way that centers the testimony of victims and builds in relational and feminist concerns. My doctoral research was funded by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) CGS-D. My work bridges the gap between existing accounts of wrongful discrimination and foundational work on relational autonomy. Currently, I am also deeply interested in Mary Astell’s work on friendship and Lucrezia Marinella’s theory of beauty. I have broad teaching interests in ethics, political philosophy, legal philosophy, and bioethics.
You can find my 2023 publication on Astellian friendship in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly here and here. You can find my 2024 publication on Rawlsian Anti-Capitalist Environmental Justice in Ethics, Politics, & Society here and here.
You can contact me by email at lenniet@mcmaster.ca.
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