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I am Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. My research and teaching interests lie in modern and contemporary political theory, particularly Black and Indigenous political thought, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the transnational politics of race, empire, and inequality.

I am currently completing a book manuscript, titled Unraveling Racial Capitalism: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Capital in the United States (under contract with Columbia University Press). The manuscript is based on my dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award (2022), presented annually for the best dissertation in political philosophy.

My work has been published in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Race & Class, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, and in an edited volume, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg. Recently, I also co-authored a public-facing report, commissioned by Louisville Metro Government, on the history of policing in Louisville.

Before joining the University of Louisville, I was a Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2021.