About

My work is concerned with questions at the intersection of race, power, and law, and understands empire—which takes the form today of white supremacist racial capitalism—as the defining political and existential problem of modernity. Accordingly, my current research and scholarship interrogates the historical and material operation of global white supremacy through an imperial genealogy of modern power.

More broadly, my areas of specialization include social and political philosophy, critical philosophy of race, imperial/colonial studies, and 20th-century Continental philosophy (especially the thought of Michel Foucault). I additionally research and write in the areas of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Medieval Islamicate philosophy, Western political theory, Marxism, and critical/existential phenomenology. I am also currently an associate editor of the Journal of Philosophical Research.

Outside of philosophy, I love painting, traveling, 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, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.