I am a Professor of Philosophy at Rice University; this summer, I am moving to take up a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.*  My CV.

My research is in ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. I have written on topics such as love, sex, marriage, amatonormativity, procreative ethics, and disaster ethics. Earlier, I wrote on the history of philosophy, particularly Kant and Hegel. My current research project focuses intimate partner violence, examining distinctive wrongs in personal relationships, such as emotional abuse and stalking.

More about me:

My book Minimizing Marriage won Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2014, and I have held a Canadian SSHRC grant and a Murphy Institute Fellowship at Tulane. I have also been the recipient of a NEH grant to co-direct a NEH Summer Institute with Tamara Metz.

My work has been discussed in the Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, the Times of India, Haaretz, Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy), Matador (Spain), and the Times of London. This page collects some of my media appearances and popular writing.

From 2018-2023, I was the Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy and starting in January 2024, I will be an Associate Editor at Ethics.

I received a B.A. in Classics and English Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford University, and a M.Litt. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews.

*And am not to be confused with the other Professor Brake at Rice, my brother Matthew (recently made a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers!).

Email me here: elizabeth.e.brake@gmail.com