ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Florida International University, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, 2022 - present
Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, 2021 - 2022
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science Visitor, 2021 - 2022
Stanford University, Civics Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020 - 2021
EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, CT
PhD in Political Science (2020) with distinction on dissertation, MA (2016), MPhil (2017)
Certificate of College Teaching Preparation (2019)
Subfields: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Archival and Historical Methods
Dissertation: The Freedom of Unreason: Imagination, Skepticism, and Politics in Early Modern Thought
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fox International Fellowship Visiting Student at Sidney Sussex College, 2017-2018
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
AB (2011) Summa cum laude
Major: Political Science, graduated with departmental honors
PUBLICATIONS
“From Natural Rights to the Nature of Rights: On Rousseau’s Theory of Property,” History of Political Thought, forthcoming.
“Isaiah Berlin’s Liberal Reformation,” Modern Intellectual History, published Online First December 2024.
“Why the Imaginary Needs the Imagination,” Polity 56/4 (October 2024): 558 – 583.
“Is ruthlessness the enemy? On Joshua Cherniss’ Liberalism in Dark Times,” History of European Ideas 50/3 (2024): 543-545.
Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 4th edition, Hackett (2023) (co-edited, with a new co-authored introduction with Ian Shapiro)
“Hobbes and the Politics of Translation.” Political Theory Vol. 49, Iss. 1 (2021): 83-108
“Value Pluralism and Tragic Loss.” Critical Review Vol. 32, Iss. 4 (2020): 556-573
“Sanctuary and the Limits of Public Reason: A Deweyan Corrective.” Politics and Religion. Vol. 11, Iss. 3 (2018)
“Negative Liberty and the Cold War” in The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin, ed. Steven Smith and Joshua Cherniss (2018) (with Ian Shapiro)
“Religious Reasons in Public Deliberation” in The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, ed. Andre Bächtiger, John S. Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren (2018) (with Andrew March)
WORKING PAPERS and MANUSCRIPTS (available upon request)
Claiming the World: Bourgeois Freedom and the Problem of Imagination (book manuscript)
“Marx and the Problem of Advertising” (with Matthew Shafer) (under review)
“In Defense of Sophistry”
“Nietzsche in Basel”
“Materialism and Imagination in Political Science: Lessons from Hobbes”
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“From Natural Rights to the Nature of Rights: On Rousseau’s Theory of Property,” The Ideology of the State of Nature and Social Contract Workshop, Columbia University (November 2023)
“Value Pluralism and Enlightenment,” International Seminar on “Isaiah Berlin: value and cultural pluralism,” Tuscia University (March 22, 2023)
Author Meets Critics for Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times, American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2022)
“In Defense of Sophistry,” Virtual Political Theory Group, Western Political Science Association (2022)
“The Republic of Reason and Kant’s Synthetic Imagination,” Western Political Science Association Annual Conference (2021)
“Thomas Hobbes’s Material Imagination,” Stanford Political Theory Workshop (2020)
“From Natural Rights to the Nature of Rights: On Rousseau’s Theory of Property,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2020)
“Two Concepts of Liberty” Isaiah Berlin Conference, Claremont McKenna College (2020)
“Hobbes and the Politics of Translation,” Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting (2019)
“Montaigne and the Shape of the Soul,” Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Graduate Conference (2018)
“Imaginative Presentations: Justification and Sincerity in Rousseau’s Autobiographical Works,” NEPSA Annual Conference (2017)
SERVICE AND ORGANIZING
Co-organizer, “History of Political Imagination Conference” at Stanford University, May 19-20, 2023 (with Avshalom Schwartz)
This conference brings together scholars working in political theory and the history of political thought to discuss methodologies, texts, categories, and goals centering around the study of imagination, imaginaries, and imaginals in moral and political thought and practice
Co-organizer, “The Political Economy of Institutions: A Conference Honoring the Life and Work of Frances Rosenbluth,” October 14, 2022 (with Gautam Nair, Itumeleng Makgetla, and Melis Laebens)
Chair, Politics and International Relations Faculty Research Workshop (2022-present)
Departmental Bylaws Committee, Florida International University (2023-2023)
Yale College Executive Committee Assistant (2018 – 2020)
Graduate Student Assembly Political Science Representative (2013 – 2017)
Facilities and Healthcare Committee, Steering Committee, Executive Committee, G&P Mental Health Advisory Committee, Childcare Initative
Chair of Public Relations Committee (2016 – 2017)
Graduate Student Recruitment Coordinator, Yale University Political Science (2017)
Co-Coordinator, Religion and Politics Reading Group, Yale University (2014 – 2015)