Who am I?

I’m a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, where I specialize in political theory and public law.

My research centers on the history of political ideas and the application of normative political concepts to environmental political theory, legal philosophy, and law. I currently focus on constitutional law and the intellectual traditions that shaped the U.S. Constitution, constitutional rights, civil liberties, and the separation of powers.

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My dissertation examines how the six women justices of the U.S. Supreme Court exercise the Court’s juridical, interpretive, and epistemic authority to produce, stabilize, and contest legal “truths” through recurring judicial practices and doctrinal language games.

The analysis demonstrates how legal meaning and the figure of “the justice” emerge from historically contingent arrangements of institutional power, rather than from deductions drawn from a stable common-law canon of legal language and precedent. It primarily focuses on the justices’ jurisprudence in cases involving presidential power, executive emergency action, race and gender discrimination, policing and punishment, and citizenship.

My additional interests include renewable energy and resource politics; political and social ecology; Indigenous political thought; AI and technology ethics; judicial behavior; and the intellectual history of anarchist, libertarian, reactionary, and Romantic traditions.