Dr. Bhardwaj has taught philosophy at Phillips Academy, Andover since 2017, and is the Department Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies department. She teaches courses including Introduction to Ethics, Views of Human Nature, Feminist Philosophies, Ethics of Technology, and The Ethics of Blame and Forgiveness. She was awarded a Tang Fellowship for 2019-2024, in which she and her collaborators have developed an ethics pedagogy for computer science and other technical classes and run ongoing programming.

Her philosophical interests are in ethics (especially moral psychology), practical ethics, Kant, and feminism. Her most recent publications are “Giving Up on Someone” in The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy and “The Kingdom of Ends as Ideal” in Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends, edited by Jan-Willem van der Rijt and Adam Cureton (Routledge 2021).

She completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy as a Royster Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.