I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley and an incoming Assistant Professor of Humanities at UT Austin’s Civitas Institute (beginning August 2027). My research examines the conceptual history of sovereignty across late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern political philosophy. I hold secondary research interests in Caesarism, the theory of executive power, and political Hebraism.

My first book project, Political Metaphysics: Sovereignty and Political Form, 1250–1651, examines the metaphysical foundations of the theory of sovereignty, with an emphasis on high Scholastic political philosophy and its early modern reception.

I have published 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). From 2024 to 2025, I held a Dissertation Grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where I conducted archival research on Carl Schmitt’s reception of Bodin. I have held additional fellowships from the Hertog Institute, the Hudson Institute for Political Studies, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Tikvah Fund.

I am currently based in New York City. During the 2026–2027 academic year, I will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Political Theory at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.