About

Working in political philosophy and aesthetics, I examine how the places we live, and the aesthetics contained within them, shape the conditions of political agency and belonging. I treat place not as a neutral backdrop to political life, but as an environment that orients how agents perceive, inhabit, and act. In this way, everyday environments and practices structure who feels at home in a space, how agents understand their standing within a political community, and what forms of action are possible or permissible.

In my teaching, I design courses that ask how political life is shaped through everyday places and practices. In The Politics of Home, we examined the threshold between public and private spheres, challenging this boundary by exploring the role the home plays in political life and the ways it can function as a site for the formation and sustaining of political agency. In The Refugee Crisis, students investigated the conditions of displacement and belonging, the role these play in political life, and what it means to lack political belonging altogether.

Across my research and teaching, I am interested in how political agency is formed through environments, practices, and aesthetics. In both contexts, I emphasize how place shapes the conditions under which political life becomes intelligible and possible. 

I graduated from Western Michigan University with B.A.'s in English: Creative Writing, Global & International Studies, and German in 2018, and an M.A. in Philosophy in 2020.  I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Virginia, where I am expected to finish in 2027.