About

As a philosopher of power, I work predominantly in the areas of Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, and anticolonial thought. My teaching and scholarship take as their starting point the recognition that empire—which takes the form today of white racial capitalism—is the defining political problem of modernity, and that the discipline of philosophy has historically been implicated in this imperial reality. My research and teaching are thus committed to interrogating the historical and material present by uncovering the configurations of power-knowledge that produce racially differentiated subjectivities and lifeworlds of precarity. In every aspect of my academic work, I simultaneously see myself advancing the project, eloquently articulated by the late Charles Mills, of “challenging the assumptions of white political philosophy.” Together, my scholarship and teaching place the history of philosophy in conversation with still-marginalized traditions of thought, tracing how their dissonance clarifies the political—and thus philosophical—crises of our present.

Broadly, my areas of specialization include Social & Political Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, Marxism, and 20th-century Continental Philosophy, particularly existential phenomenology and the thought of Michel Foucault. I additionally research and teach in the areas of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy—including Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought—Critical Theory, Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and Third-World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Postcolonial studies, and political aesthetics. I am currently an associate editor of the Journal of Philosophical Research and a cultural theorist and practitioner, having most recently served as a jury member at the 2025 Ouray International Film Festival.

Outside of philosophy, I love all manner of art, solo traveling, gaming, listening to live jazz, and being a cat mom.

My work has been generously supported by the Fulbright Program, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the William J. Cooper Foundation.