In Carl Sandburg's Writing Chair in his Connemara Estate in Flat Rock, North Carolina
Welcome! I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
My research areas are political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and modern European philosophy. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Graduate Center, CUNY and my BA from Hunter College, CUNY. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about value of a home in a human life and the ideal/nonideal theory debate.
Since 2024, I serve on the Charles Mills Prize Committee for the Journal of Applied Philosophy. I am a co-organizer for the Race, Politics, and Ethics Workshop. I was a Faculty Fellow at The Center for Ethics at The Murphy Institute in Tulane University in 2025-26. I was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values in 2022-23.
My second book Counterpublics: Du Bois and Democratic Practices behind the Color Line is under contract with Oxford University Press. My first monograph W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and the Found was published with Polity Press in 2020. My articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such outlets as Journal of Political Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy,Kantian Review, Journal of Social Philosophy,Social Theory & Practice, and The Monist.
I grew up in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. I also write poetry and creative nonfiction. My first poetry book How to Love the World was published with Pank Press in 2020 and was shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award.
