I am currently a Visiting Research Associate in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, following two years as a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.

My research is concerned with democratic judgment, popular participation, political identity and theatrical politics in the history of political thought and practice. My first book project, When Citizens Judge, develops a novel theory of political judgment through a comparative study of citizens evaluating questions of justice, identity and political advantage as leisured spectators in the theater and as jurors in the popular courts of classical Athens. My second book project, Actors on the Political Stage, offers a genealogy of theater metaphor in political thought and practice- from ancient Athens to Puritan New England- to illuminate contemporary “post-truth” and performative politics.

I have taught political theory at Cornell University, Colorado College, Georgetown University, and the University of Toronto. My work has appeared in the Review of Politics and the Tocqueville Review and is forthcoming in History of Political Thought.

I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Toronto, my M.A. in Government at Georgetown University, and my B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy at the Colorado College.

Thank you for your interest in my work!