My research focuses on ideas of collective action in the history of political thought. My work has been published in Political Theory. Starting in Fall 2024, I have held the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. I received my Ph.D. in political theory from Brown University in February 2024.

My book project, Democratic Refusals: The General Strike in the Making, develops an account of how the general strike has shaped the democratic imaginary. In it, I explore how and why political thinkers and movements turned to general-strike politics in the 20th century, giving an account of what is democratic in the general strike by recovering what thinkers like Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and W.E.B. Du Bois had hoped the general strike could achieve and by assessing what we might hope for in remaking the strike today.

During the “golden age” of the general strike at the turn of the century, political movements left and right, reformist and revolutionary, saw in the strike an opportunity to bring “the many” into the political process in ways that expanding suffrage had failed to do. Even as general strikes became less frequent—partly because labor won institutional channels for representation—critics of modern democracy took up and remade the general strike in hopes of realizing democratic freedom and equality: freedom from the domination of economic rationality and equality of women and people of color in patriarchal and racist societies.

For the 2020-2021 academic year, I was a graduate fellow at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. During the 2018-2019 academic year, I was a Collaborative Humanities Fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. I hold a B.A. from Amherst College and was previously a Junior Fellow in the Energy and Climate program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.