Welcome! I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. In 2022-23, I was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values. Since 2024, I have served on Charles Mills Prize Committee for the Journal of Applied Philosophy and co-organize the Race, Politics, and Ethics Workshop with Ian Peebles (Arizona State University).
My research areas are political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and late modern German philosophy. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Graduate Center, CUNY and my BA from Hunter College, CUNY. My current research focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois's democratic theory, which I base on his critique of 19th- and 20th-century American democracy.
My second book Counter Publics: Du Bois, Democracy, and 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, Journal of Moral Philosophy,Journal of Social Philosophy, Kantian Review, Critical Philosophy of Race, Social Theory & Practice, and The Philosophical Forum.
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.
