‘Marie Max’ by Raoul Dufy
I am a political theorist and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama, where I am also affiliated with the Department of Political Science. I primarily teach courses on historical and contemporary feminist political theory. At UA, my classes include The Politics of Consent, Freedom Beyond Rights, Gender, Race, and Neoliberalism, and surveys of feminist political theory at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
My areas of research include sex and gender in the history of political thought (especially in the 18th century), contemporary feminist political theory, and politics and literature. I also have a longstanding interest in the political thought of the French Enlightenment, particularly imperialism and republicanism. You can read about my book manuscript, Beyond Sacrifice: Civic Virtue and Emotional Practices, as well as my next research project, an account of the relationship between freedom and utopianism in feminist thought.
In 2018-2019, I was a lecturer in the American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Master of Liberal Arts and Science Programs at Vanderbilt University. I was previously a visiting assistant professor with the Vanderbilt Department of Political Science and the Whitman College Department of Politics, as well as a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Political Science. A complete list of the courses I have offered at UA is available here.
I have held the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender Studies at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Clark Dissertation Fellowship at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. I received my PhD from the UCLA Department of Political Science in 2014.
You can download my CV here.