ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Florida International University, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, 2022 - present
Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, 2021 - present
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
Dissertation Readers: Bryan Garsten, Ian Shapiro, and Giulia Oskian
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
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 (available upon request)
Claiming the World: Bourgeois Freedom and the Problem of Imagination (book manuscript)
“Why the Imaginary Needs the Imagination”
“From Natural Rights to the Nature of Rights: On Rousseau’s Theory of Property” (under review)
“In Defense of Sophistry”
“Isaiah Berlin’s Liberal Reformation” (under review)
“Materialism and Imagination in Political Science: Lessons from Hobbes”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Florida International University
Ancient and Medieval Political Theory (Lecture course)
Graduate Seminar in Political Theory (Graduate course)
Modern Political Theory (Lecture course)
Yale University
Contemporary Political Theory: Justice, Freedom, Power (Lecture course)
Stanford University
Origins of Political Thought: From Homer to Aristotle (Cross-listed in Political Science, Classics, and Philosophy; Open to undergraduates and graduate students)
The Concept of Society
Yale University, Department of Political Science
Head Teaching Fellow
Moral Foundations of Politics (Spring 2017, Spring 2020) (with Ian Shapiro)
Introduction to Political Philosophy (Fall 2016) (with Bryan Garsten)
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Sex, Markets, and Power (Fall 2019) (with Frances Rosenbluth)
Moral Foundations of Politics (Spring 2016) (with Ian Shapiro)
Introduction to Political Philosophy (Fall 2015) (with Bryan Garsten)
IARU Global Summer Program (Summer 2015) (with Andrew March)
ETA Fulbright Program, Gymnazium Golianova, Nitra, Slovakia, 2011 - 2012
Bryn Mawr College
Teaching Assistant, Ancient and Early Modern Political Philosophy (Spring 2011) (with Stephen Salkever)
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2018-2019
Fox International Fellowship at Cambridge University, 2017-2018
Max Kade Foundation Fellowship, 2017 (German Language Study in Konstanz, Germany)
Fulbright ETA in Nitra, Slovakia, 2011-2012
M. Carey Thomas Prize for Excellence in Writing, 2011 (Awarded annually to one member of the senior class for distinction in critical writing)
Bryn Mawr European Traveling Scholarship, 2011 (Awarded annually to one member of the senior class for future graduate study)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“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)
CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT ROLES
Association for Political Theory (2022)
Chair on panel “Cannon Fodder”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meting (2021)
Chair on panel “Intersectional Investigations: Affect, Recognition, Testimony”
Discussant on panel “The Ancients, the Moderns, and Us”
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2019)
Chair and discussant on panel “The Boundaries of Reason”
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2017)
Chair and discussant on panel “Ecology and Political Theory”
Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2016)
Discussant on panel “Reconsidering Ancient Political Thought”
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2015)
Discussant on panel “Issues in Democratic Political Theory I”
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)
Co-organizer, Politics and International Relations Faculty Research Workshop (2022-2023)
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)