I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. From 2021-2023, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. I earned my PhD in Philosophy at Duke University. 

My research is on distributive justice in social life--what justice requires given that the people we know shape how our lives turn out. I'm currently working on a book project, Free Association, on inequalities of social capital: the resources that we get from our social networks, such as information, opportunities, and trust. 

I'm also interested in methodological issues surrounding how normative theorists should incorporate social scientific evidence, given disagreement over values and empirical uncertainty.

​Feel free to contact me at vsoon[at]ucsd.edu.