About

As a philosopher of power, my teaching and research begin from the conviction that coloniality is the defining political problem of modernity, and that Western philosophy has been historically implicated in naturalizing and legitimizing the colonial order of things. My work interrogates the historical and material present by uncovering the configurations of power-knowledge that produce racially differentiated subjectivities and lifeworlds of precarity. Across my scholarship and teaching, I see myself advancing the project so eloquently articulated by the late Charles Mills of “challenging the assumptions of white political philosophy.” By placing the history of philosophy in conversation with still-marginalized traditions of thought, I trace the productive dissonances through which the political—and thus philosophical—stakes of our present become newly legible.

Broadly, my areas of specialization include political philosophy of race, 19th and 20th-Century Continental philosophy (especially Marxism, Critical Theory, aesthetics, existentialism, and poststructuralism), and political philosophy (including Ancient and Medieval political thought, Western political theory, and Third-World Approaches to International Law). I am currently a faculty member at the Brook Farm Institute for Critical Study, an associate editor of the Journal of Philosophical Research, and an editor of de Gruyter’s “Transforming Political Philosophy” series. Beyond the academy, I also work as a cultural practitioner, having most recently served on the Festival Jury at the 2025 Ouray International Film Festival.

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.

Outside of philosophy, I am a painter, gamer, and cat mom.