The Basics

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College, where I joined the faculty in 2020. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Washington where my studies focused on race and ethnic politics, political theory, and public law.

In my work, I historicize to theorize, developing concepts like the politics of love that are imaginative and pragmatic. I theorize to historicize, generating adaptable concepts, such as an economy of racial violence, that illuminate patterns in development over long periods. This approach reflects my orientation toward research as a project driven by political problems and questions rather than disciplinary conventions or methodological commitments, which has led me to traverse multiple fields.

My scholarship engages with—and contributes to—ongoing scholarly debates in historical and normative political theory, race and ethnic politics, sociolegal studies, and American political development.