Research
I’m a feminist, critical race, and queer theorist and a scholar of democracy and political economy.
I specialize in political theories of identity and democratic agency. I am currently working on my second book on the politics of desire, which brings democratic, political-economic, and queer theories to bear on debates about toxic masculinity, racial fetishization, bisexual+ and trans identity, and eating disorders.
Peer-Reviewed Work
Book
Claiming Value: The Politics of Priority from Aristotle to Black Lives Matter (New York NY: Routledge, 2023)
Articles
Forthcoming: “Undercover(ture) Agents: Value, Labor, and Service in 19th Century Courts” with Sara Chatfield, New Political Science
2024 "A Phenomenology of Abuse: Discursive Cornering, Gaslighting, and Institutionalized Vulnerability," Contemporary Political Theory.
2023 “Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value,” Philosophy and Global Affairs 3, no. 1.
2022 “Practicing Democratic Equality: Overcoming Hierarchy Alongside Rancière’s Schoolmaster and Phillips’s Psychoanalyst,” Journal of Psychosocial Studies 15, no 3 (2022).
2022 “Navigating the ‘Darkness’: Feminist, Trans, and Queer Comedy Against Ideology,” Theory & Event 25, no. 4 (2022).
2021 “What’s the Matter with Value? Anna Julia Cooper’s Political-Economic Thought.” Critical Philosophy of Race 9, no. 1 (2021).
2018 “Learning to Globalise: Socrates, U.S. Education Abroad, and the Boundaries of Citizenship.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 16, no. 1 (2018).
Invited Contributions
2025 “Gender and Power,” The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender (forthcoming September 2025)
2024 “Value Claims and Global Democratic Theory,” response to symposium on Alena Wolflink’s Claiming Value: The Politics of Priority from Aristotle to Black Lives Matter, forthcoming in Philosophy and Global Affairs
2021 Review of Robert Nichols’ Theft is Property: Dispossession and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Global Affairs 1, no. 2 (2021).
Public Commentary
2023 “10 Ways to Appropriate DEI,” Inside Higher Ed
2023 Testimony, Support for the Transparency Against Deceptive Practices at Anti Abortion Centers Bill, Colorado General Assembly, Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2023
2022 “Teaching Radical Democracy,” Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning, CCESL Public Good Impact Report, University of Denver
2016 “An Uncounted Army: Forging Consensus in a Fractured Age.” Counterpunch 23, no. 6 (November 2016).
