I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science (Political Theory & Philosophy) at UC Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. My current research examines the conceptual history of sovereignty across late medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and modern political thought. I hold secondary interests in political theology, political Hebraism, and anti-Judaism. My dissertation, Popular Sovereignty and Political Form, 1250-1600, provides a novel account of the conceptual history of popular sovereignty and Caesarism from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

I have published widely on authors such as Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, and Thomas Hobbes in American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, and The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Before beginning my graduate studies, I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Chicago (2018), then taught English as a second language through Fulbright Austria's USTA Program (2018–2020). I recently held a one-year predoctoral fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2024–2025), which supported archival research on Carl Schmitt’s reception of Bodin. I am currently based in New York City, where I am enrolled at Columbia University through the Ivy Plus Exchange Program.