Curriculum Vitae
Education
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PhD, Political Science, 2023
Thesis: “Sodomy, Equality, Fraternity: Bodily Practice and the Rise of Democracy”
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
MA, Political Theory, 2017
Thesis: The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation: A Critical History
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
MPhil, Distinction, Political Theory, 2014.
Thesis: Fraternity, Friendship, and Love in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
BA (Honours), Summa Cum Laude, Political Science, 2011.
Thesis: A History of Homosocial Desire: Sexuality, Gender, and Friendship.
Publications
ArticleS
“From the Body of the King to the Body of the Nation: Sovereignty, Sodomy, and the English Revolution of 1688,” Modern Intellectual History (2024): 1-27, first view online.
“Conceptualizing Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of Democratic Erosion,” Femina Politica: Zeitschrift für Feministische Politikwissenschaft, 33, 1 (2024): 72-80.
“The Inter-est Between Us: Ontology, Epistemology, and the Failure of Political Representation,” Contemporary Political Theory, 22, 1 (2022): 46-69.
“Sovereign Chaos and Riotous Affects, Or, How to Find Joy Behind the Barricades”, Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 2, 1–2 (2020): 152–172.
Book Chapters
“Communist Guilt, Public Happiness, and the Feelings of Collective Attachment” in The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968, eds. Guillaume Collett, Krista Giappone, Iain MacKenzie, (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), 201-224.
“From Mute Objects to Militant Subjects: The Politics of Rebellious Animals” in Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices, eds. Andrei Siclodi and Andreas Oberprantacher, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Russian translation: “ОТ БЕЗГЛАСНЫХ ОБЪЕКТОВ К ВОИНСТВУЮЩИМ СУБЪЕКТАМ: ПОЛИТИКА БУНТУЮЩИХ ЖИВОТНЫХ1”, in ФОНАРЬ ДИОГЕНА: Человек в многообразии практик [Diogenes’ Lantern: The Human Being in Diversity of Practice], 3-4 (2018): 200-227.
‘We Support Circus Animals Who Kill Their Captors’: Nonhuman Resistance, Animal Subjectivity, and the Politics of Democracy" in Tiere - Texte - Transformationen: Kritische Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies, ed. Andreas Oberprantacher, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.
Greek translation: Υποστηρίζουμε τα ζώα που σκοτώνουν τους καταπιεστές τους: πολιτική των εξεγερμένων ζώων trans., Kostas Alexiou (Athens: Kynaigei, 2017).
book REVIEWS
Tom Head, It’s Your World So Change it (Indianapolis, IN: QUE Publishing, 2010) in St Antony’s International Review 8:2 (2013): 175-177.
Under Review
”Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline,” co-written with Samuel Galloway (under review at Political Studies)
Working Papers
“Brotherly Love, Cannibal Sodomites, and the Political Subject of Contract in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government”
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2022 — Provost Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2021 — Thomas Keymer Award, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2020 — Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF),
Social Science Research Council
2020 — Pozen Research Grant, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
2020 — Nicholson Center for British Studies Graduate Research Fellowship
2019 — Human Rights Doctoral Fellowship, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
2015 — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC)
2015 — Social Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago
2012 — Departmental Fellowship, Oxford University
2011 — Political Science Gold Medal , University of British Columbia Awarded to most outstanding graduating student
2011 — Hector Gordon Munro Scholarship in Political Science
Teaching
Instructor
Michel Foucault and his Histories of Sexuality, Graduate Seminar- Summer 2024, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Political Anatomies of the Body Politic: Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Western Political Thought - Summer 2022, Freie Universität
Advanced Theories of Gender and Sexuality, with Linda Zerilli - Winter 2020, University of Chicago
Power, Identity, Resistance I - Autumn 2019, University of Chicago,
Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations, with Linda Zerilli - Winter 2019, University of Chicago
Teaching-Assistant
Power, Identity, and Resistance II - Winter 2018
Introduction to Political Theory - Winter 2018
Power, Identity, and Resistance I - Autumn 2017