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Welcome, and thanks for visiting!  I am an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar of American political and legal life, with expertise in public law, constitutional jurisprudence, and political (critical as well as normative) theory.

 

My research and teaching interests interrogate the lived differences between "law on the books" and "law in action." In particular, my work and my classes focus on the application of capital and carceral punishment, religious and ideological pluralism in late liberal democratic states, race-conscious reparative practices in citizenship and immigration, feminist and queer theory, and the achievement of justice and equity in ordinary legal and political life. 

 

I earned my Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California at Berkeley.  I also hold a M.Sc. (with distinction) in Ideas and Identities from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. (with Latin and departmental honors) in Politics and German Studies from Whitman College. ​

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​I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, and I previously taught as an Assistant Professor in the Political Science and Law & Policy Studies departments at Dickinson College.  At Dickinson, I was also the co-director of the Dialogues Across Differences project, a pathbreaking curricular and community initiative that was funded by a $300,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.