In Summer 2019, I will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law & Policy Studies at Dickinson College. I will receive my Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to Dickinson College, I was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society and a lecturer in both Berkeley's Fall Program for Freshman (a unique liberal arts experience for incoming first year students) and the Department of Legal Studies.
My research and teaching interests are in political theory, American politics, and constitutional jurisprudence, with specialized interests in multiculturalism and religious pluralism, theories of democracy and justice, and feminist thought. My work crosses interdisciplinary boundaries in order to illuminate: how the study of political theory can be generative of tangible law and policy recommendations, how bringing an historical eye to contemporary issues can illuminate latent political injuries or social inequalities, and how promoting pedagogical diversity can foster an inclusive and dynamic classroom.
My research has been supported by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellowship, the Mellon Discovery Fellowship at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the William K. Coblentz Center for Civil Rights. I also hold a Bachelor's degree from Whitman College (cum laude, 2006) and a Master's degree from the London School of Economics (with distinction, 2007).
(Last updated March 1, 2019)
My research and teaching interests are in political theory, American politics, and constitutional jurisprudence, with specialized interests in multiculturalism and religious pluralism, theories of democracy and justice, and feminist thought. My work crosses interdisciplinary boundaries in order to illuminate: how the study of political theory can be generative of tangible law and policy recommendations, how bringing an historical eye to contemporary issues can illuminate latent political injuries or social inequalities, and how promoting pedagogical diversity can foster an inclusive and dynamic classroom.
My research has been supported by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellowship, the Mellon Discovery Fellowship at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the William K. Coblentz Center for Civil Rights. I also hold a Bachelor's degree from Whitman College (cum laude, 2006) and a Master's degree from the London School of Economics (with distinction, 2007).
(Last updated March 1, 2019)