I am a Professor of Philosophy at Rice University.*  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, more recently, on disaster ethics and environmental justice. Earlier in my career, I also wrote on the history of philosophy, particularly Kant and Hegel. My current research project focuses on what I call relationship wrongs, distinctive wrongs in personal relationships, such as emotional abuse.

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. (Recently featured in Dazed magazine!)

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.

I am the Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy and am on the Editorial Board of Ethics.With Clair Morrissey (Occidental), I am Co-Editor of the forthcoming 2020-21 Pacific APA Special Issue in Philosophical Studies.

In 2022, I co-organized a virtual lecture series on social human rights and personal relationship goods (funded by Rice University) with Kimberley Brownlee (UBC). I also co-directed a NEH Summer Institute, “Philosophical Perspectives on Care,” with Tamara Metz (Reed).

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