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 investigates normative concepts in political philosophy — including autonomy, authority, equality, liberty, justice, rights, and sovereignty — analyzing their historical development and their application in legal philosophy, environmental political theory, and the law. This work is interdisciplinary in scope, with a particular focus on epistemologies of authority, justice, and liberty, and on how Indigenous ecologies, political thought, and legal traditions engage with and contest neoliberal and settler-state justice systems.

I aim to recover and develop ideas emerging at the confluence of often-overlooked and understudied Indigenous knowledges (in the Americas and globally) and libertarian social theory, with the goal of advancing emancipatory and democratic alternatives to the intensifying threat of authoritarian (environmental) governance in the Anthropocene.

My additional interests include renewable energy and resource politics, political and social ecology, AI ethics, law and society, American (U.S.) political thought, constitutional law, judicial behavior, Romanticism, and reactionary thought.

See my research.