I did my graduate work at Northwestern University (PhD, 2018) and before that I studied at Bates College, where I received a BA degree in Economics and Political Science (2009). While finishing my dissertation, I held temporary teaching appointments at Lake Forest College and the American University in Bulgaria. After receiving my PhD, I was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at Duke University. I am currently Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology-Kosovo (RITK).
Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the fields of history of political thought, moral and political philosophy, and contemporary democratic theory. Within the first two, I take a particular interest in the social and political thought of Kant and Hegel, as well as the tradition of early modern European political thought (esp. Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau). In the third field, I take an interest in the normative democratic theories of Dewey, Rawls, Arendt, and Habermas. Secondary research interests include American political thought, international political theory (esp. contemporary philosophical theories of global justice and human rights), philosophy of social science, and ancient Greek political ethics (Plato and Aristotle).
My book manuscript, based on my doctoral dissertation and tentatively titled The Conflict of the Faculties and After: Politics, Philosophy, and the University in a Post-Kantian World, is a political-theoretic inquiry into what I take to be the problem at the center of Kant’s polemical work The Conflict of the Faculties (Der Streit der Fakultäten) and its effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte) in the political-theoretic works of G. W. F. Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and Jürgen Habermas.