At the University of Washington, I am a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, an Adjunct Professor at the Information School (iSchool), and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for an Informed Public, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, eScience Institute, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, and Society + Technology Program.

I study the social structure of science from both normative and descriptive perspectives.  My theoretical work identifies new ways to conceptualize and taxonomize biases and emerging norms in peer review and the awarding of scientific "credit." My empirical projects have included studies on Black-white disparities in grant review at the National Institutes of Health, gender disparities in funding at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and gender homophily in co-authorship across the JSTOR corpus.

In my scholarship, I engage with science policy and academic audiences.  My work has been published in venues across fields (e.g., Science, Science Advances, The Lancet, Philosophy of Science, Plos ONE) and has been covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education, STAT, and Chemistry World.  My research informed changes to peer review practices at the 2013 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and 2016 Neural Information Processing Systems conferences and inspired the development of a new algorithm to measure bias in peer review scores for the 2022 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and a Career Enhancement Fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.  I'm grateful to have received First Prize for most creative submission to NIH's Peer Review Challenge (with Elena Erosheva) and the Philosophy of Science Association's Prize in Philosophy of Science & Race.

I am a Director at Rapid Science and previously served as an Advisory Board member for the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines and ASAPbio.  I served on the Steering Committee for the University of Washington's UW Faculty 2050 Report compiled by UW Faculty Senate leadership and faculty in collaboration with the Provost and Board of Deans & Chancellors.