I am an incoming Assistant Professor at UT Austin’s Center for Humanities. My current research examines the conceptual history of popular sovereignty and Caesarism across late medieval and early modern political thought. My related interests include Aristotle’s practical philosophy and metaphysics, Scholastic political philosophy, Machiavelli’s political writings, Renaissance demonology, early modern political theology, and Weimar political thought. My first book project, Political Metaphysics: Popular Sovereignty and Political Form, 1250–1651, examines how appeals to the sovereignty of “the people” can paradoxically culminate in the rule of a single leader.

I have published some of my work 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).

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science (Political Theory & Philosophy), with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance & Early Modern Studies, from UC Berkeley in 2026. Before beginning my graduate studies, I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2018, then taught English as a second language through Fulbright Austria's USTA Program from 2018 to 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 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.