I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley. My current research examines the conceptual history of popular sovereignty and Caesarism across late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern political thought. I hold secondary interests in the theory of executive power, the intersection between politics and religion, and political Hebraism.

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 Jean 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 University (University Center for Human Values). In August 2027, I will join UT Austin's Civitas Institute as Assistant Professor of Humanities.