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Welcome to my website!  I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, and I previously taught as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law & Policy Studies at Dickinson College.  At Dickinson, I was also the co-director of the Dialogues Across Differences project, a curricular and community initiative that was funded by a $300,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.  

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My broader research and teaching interests are in normative and critical political theory, public law, and constitutional jurisprudence, and I have particular expertise in the history of political thought, nineteenth and twentieth century continental theory, contemporary critical theories of law, and American political and legal culture.  

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In my capacity as a teacher-scholar, I interrogate the gap between ideals like justice, fairness, and equality, and the lived experiences of exclusion, subordination, and dispossession, especially as they attend to the power-laden formations of political, legal, and social identities in late liberal democratic states.  In doing so, my research engages with themes of incarceration and punishment, citizenship and belonging, and religious and ideological pluralism, and my arguments emerge from considerations of political genealogies, archives, and first-person narratives.  

 

I earned my Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California at Berkeley.  I also hold a M.Sc. (with distinction) in Ideas and Identities from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. (with Latin and departmental honors) in Politics and German Studies from Whitman College. ​

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