Jessica Keiser will join the department at UNC in July 2025. She received her PhD in philosophy from Yale University in 2017, and spent the following year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University. Prior to coming to UNC, Jessica was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds (where she was a Marie Curie Fellow from 2018-2020). Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy of language and social/political theory, focusing on how language is used to direct attention for the purposes of achieving diverse social and political goals. You can find her webpage here, and an open access copy of her recent book here.