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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. My research centers on Indigenous politics, race and ethnicity, nation-building, popular movements, as well as Latinx and Latin American political thought. I approach these topics via postcolonial theory, decolonial politics, comparative political theory, and the history of political thought. 

 

My book, Imagining America: Hemispheric Nation-Building and Revolution in the New World (forthcoming with Princeton University Press), examines the importance of hemispheric discourses for the development of republican political thought in the Americas. The book demonstrates that popular movements appealed to narratives of shared American emancipation to coalesce their efforts against colonial power during the Age of Revolutions (c. 1775-1830). I also analyze the importance of hemispheric identities for Indigenous, Black, and enslaved revolutionaries seeking to establish egalitarian conditions in the postcolonial Americas. As such, the project seeks to center the contributions of marginalized communities for the development of both republican and American political thought. 

 

My published research has appeared in the American Political Science Review (APSR), American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Polity, Contemporary Political Theory (CPT), International Theory (IT) and Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID). My public-facing scholarship has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and La Silla Vacia.

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I design courses that introduce students to political theory by situating the "Western" canon in contention with less familiar works, archival objects, and visual artifacts. My courses specialize on postcolonial and decolonial theory, Indigenous political thought, Latinx and Latin American political thought, as well as studies of race and ethnicity. 

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My research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the University of Toronto, the American Political Science Association, and the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship at Williams College.