Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan. My work is situated at the intersection of contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and disability studies and has been published in The Annual Review of Political Science. My book project, tentatively titled “Disability: A Democratic Dilemma,” brings into view the significance of disability in mediating the relationship between citizens and the American state. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples—among them the rise and fall of waged labor, the welfare rights movement, and climate change—I show how the boundaries and defining features of political membership are stabilized and recast in and through disability. Where existing research emphasizes the exclusionary ground of liberal citizenship and its consequences for people with disabilities, I argue that disability as a concept, legal category, and medical condition has become a crucial mechanism through which to negotiate transformations in the obligations and entitlements of citizenship.

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in modern and contemporary political theory, feminist theory, disability studies, citizenship, and work. I am affiliated with Women’s and Gender Studies as well as the the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Ford School. In 2023-2024 I will be co-organizing the political theory Workshop alongside my colleague Andrew Murphy (more info can be found here).

I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in December 2020. My work at Chicago was supported by the Department of Political Science, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

My C.V. is available here.