His research focuses on social and political philosophy generally, while often approaching a variety of topics like the epistemology of political systems, AI, and the ontology of social classes through historical and comparative methodologies. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the philosophy of social class. He has published articles in venues including Philosophy and Public Affairs, Synthese, Philosophy & Social Criticism, AI & Society, Asian Philosophy, and an edited volume, New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities. In addition to more traditional historical and comparative scholarship on topics relating to social class, his recent work includes a paper on the unique properties of video games as an aesthetic form and how those properties enable new forms of classist discrimination in art. His teaching interests lie in the overlap of normative and political philosophy with political science, economics, and history, and thus contributes primarily to the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics major.
He received his PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, and a BA in History and Philosophy from Case Western Reserve University. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a Lecturer at Clemson University.
Emerson Bodde的研究主要集中在社会与政治哲学领域，并通过历史和比较的方法，探讨了诸如政治系统的认识论、人工智能以及社会阶级本体论等多种主题。他目前正在撰写一本关于社会阶级哲学的专著。他的学术文章曾刊登于《Philosophy and Public Affairs》《Synthese》《Philosophy & Social Criticism》《AI & Society》《Asian Philosophy》以及编辑文集《New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities》等学术出版物中。除了对社会阶级相关主题进行更为传统的历史和比较学术研究外，他近期的研究还包括一篇探索电子游戏作为一种审美形式的独特特性，以及这些特性如何促成艺术中的新型阶级歧视的论文。
他的教学兴趣集中在规范哲学与政治哲学的交叉领域，并涵盖政治学、经济学和历史学，因此主要以贡献于哲学、政治与经济学专业为主。
他在范德堡大学获得哲学博士学位，并于凯斯西储大学获得历史与哲学学士学位。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，他曾任教于克莱姆森大学，担任讲师一职。
