Welcome to my webpage! I currently live in Toronto and I no longer work in the academy. But you can still reach me at: zhengr(a)umich.edu.
My published research ranges across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. I focus especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality.
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Once upon a time, I was a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (2022-2024). Before that, I was an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Singapore between 2016-2021, where I co-founded the Yale-NUS Gender Research Cluster, and served as Co-chair of the Yale-NUS College Diversity & Inclusion Committee. In 2015-16, I was a Visiting Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge University.
I received my PhD in Philosophy in 2015 from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. There, I was a co-founder of the Michigan chapter of the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) network and the Mind and Moral Psychology (MMP) Working Group. I also helped found the Philosophy department outreach program, which co-sponsors the Michigan High School Ethics Bowl in partnership with A2ethics.org. I was a member of the APA Task Forces on Diversity and Inclusion as well on a Good Practices Guide. From 2013 to 2015 I served as Vice-President and President of the Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO). I graduated from Washington and Lee University, class of 2009, with degrees in Philosophy and Physics.