About My Research: 

My research interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy of Information and Library and Information Science. In my writing, I use post-structural and deconstructive theory to challenge foundational assumptions, deepen philosophical roots, and construct ethical scaffolding around questions of information. I am advised by Dr. Marija Dalbello.

In my dissertation, ”A Post-Structuralist Approach to Informational Being, Knowing, and Caring,” I establish a generative tension between Luciano Floridi’s structuralist approach to Philosophy of Information and Jacques Derrida’s post-structuralist theorizing. In a series of three constructions, deconstructions, and reconstructions, I build a theory of Post-Structural Informational Realism (PSIR) which is rooted in but deviates from Floridi’s Informational Structural Realism (ISR). PSIR has ontological, epistemological, and ethical dimensions. Ontologically, I place Floridian data de re in conversation with Derridean différance, connecting abstract metaphysics to concrete examples of the re-ontologizing nature of contemporary ICTs. Epistemologically, I expand upon principles of unknowability and undecidability, using such epistemic inaccessibility to differentiate between human and algorithmic decision making. Ethically, I combine Derridean hospitality with Floridian informational subjectivity, exploring what it means to be at-home in information. Ultimately, my dissertation seeks to develop how information structures our changing experience, knowledge, and stewardship of reality. 

My dissertation research won the 2025 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in Philosophy of Information.