I am a Professor of Philosophy 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.  I am currently 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.

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