She earned her BA in Political Science and Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Magna Cum Laude and her PhD from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in Political Science. Her work has been published in Political Theory, The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, and The International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Her current projects include a manuscript which traces the concepts of sociability and self interest in the constitution of natural rights and social contract theories of the 17th century and research into the transformation of early modern natural law theory into modern rights discourse and the subsequent development of liberal political thought.