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I recently received my Ph.D. in political theory from Brown University. My research focuses on 20th century political thought, contemporary democratic theory, and African American political thought. My work has been published in Political Theory.

My dissertation considers how 20^th-century political thinkers theorized work refusal—a “weapon of the weak”—as a source of revolutionary strength in the form of the general strike. Drawing on historical events and the resources of conceptual and critical political theory, I develop an account of the general strike as an action that is not a suspension of politics, but a potentially critical part of democratic politics.

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.