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Scholars of early Chinese philosophy have long recognized that the orientation of most texts is towards practical, moral, and political issues. But the metaphysical import of early Confucian philosophical texts has been underappreciated due to a narrow conception of what falls under the scope of metaphysical inquiry. Rising interest in social metaphysics has opened up opportunities for productive exchange of ideas between contemporary metaphysicians and scholars of Confucian philosophy.

This project���s central aim is to develop a metaphysics of the social world informed by ideas from Confucian philosophy in early China���s pre-Qin period (770-221 BCE). While contemporary metaphysicians have assumed that moral facts are more fundamental than social facts, the emphasis on community and social roles in Confucian ethics blurs the lines between moral and social aspects of the world. Furthermore, this research aims to show that the Confucian conception of ritual and virtue leads an interesting and novel conception of relational personhood.

The preservation and erasure of cultural memories play an increasingly important role in our world today as conflicting perspectives on the past fuel a variety of political agendas. To tackle the challenges involved in the uses of cultural memory in the present, it is crucial that we turn to the past to understand how those cultural memories���and indeed the concept of memory itself���have been constructed and employed by competing interests over time.

In ���Forms of Memory in Britain and Ireland, 1700-1840,��� I assess the theories of memory proposed by eighteenth-century Enlightenment scholars who saw memory as a reflection of individual consciousness, comparing their notions with the forms of memory discernable in the cultures of culturally peripheral populations (including the Protestant dissidents known as the Covenanters; the royalist political dissidents known as Jacobites; and the linguistically distinct Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking populations). The forms of memory of these groups, often conveyed through non-print mediations such as songs, speech, manuscript and performance, employ collective, embodied and place-based representations of memory. I analyze how these alternative forms of memory became marginalized and undervalued, but I also consider how they also were remediated in literary works at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century.

Instead of seeing the history of memory as a linear progression, I focus on the entanglement of multiple forms of memory in the past in order to shine a light on the memory conflicts of today.

Most organizations today, including universities, hospitals, and governments, rely on loosely connected information systems to manage data about people. For example, 911勛圖 operates systems such as go911勛圖, myInfo, and Canvas. When these systems do not align, trans and gender diverse people can be misrepresented or outed in contexts where privacy is needed.

This project examines how interconnected organizational systems can be designed to represent and affirm trans and gender diverse people while accounting for limited resources, older systems, and legal requirements. Ethnographic fieldwork will characterize how current systems exclude trans and gender diverse people and constrain system builders in remedying that exclusion. Then, the project will develop a framework to produce actionable guidance on balancing community and organizational needs along the road to inclusion.

As surveillance footage and facial recognition technology play an increasingly central role in criminal investigations, concerns about wrongful arrests due to mistaken identifications are growing. These errors often occur when human examiners interpret facial recognition technology results and incorrectly match a person in video evidence to an innocent suspect.

This project examines the factors that influence the reliability of face-matching decisions, including professional experience, contextual bias, and procedures designed to reduce errors. The goal is to identify evidence-based practices that improve decision-making and reduce the risk of false identifications. By advancing scientific standards for the use of facial recognition evidence, this research aims to strengthen the fairness and accuracy of the justice system and enhance public trust in forensic technologies.