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I am a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University Camden, as well as Director of the Childism Institute and the Children's Voting Colloquium. I am also Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.

My research explores the intersection of political philosophy and children's rights. I am best known for developing the critical theory of childism, or children's empowerment, as well as for research and advocacy around ageless suffrage. My nine books, dozens of articles and chapters, and public media take a childist, feminist, and decolonialist approach to changing normative undertandings of political relations.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
Give Children the Vote
Exploring Children's Suffrage
Children's Rights Today's Global Challenge
Children and Armed Conflict
Ethics in Light of Childhood
Moral Creativity
Marriage, Health, and the Professions
Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
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