Her dissertation, “Principled Compromise in Theorizing about Justice” (Emory University, May 2014), focused on how to understand and resolve conflicts of values, especially those which are associated with the ideals of liberal democracy and postulates how to respond to disagreement about the basic principles of justice. Without a nuanced understanding of principled compromise, theorists lack a key resource for negotiating the diversity of moral, religious, and metaphysical beliefs and values.