Curriculum Vita
EDUCATION:
June 2014 Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Major Fields: Political Theory; Race, Ethnicity and Politics
June 2010 M.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
March 2008 B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, summa cum laude,
with College Honors and Departmental Highest Honors
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
2015-present Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
2014-2015 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, October 2018).
Articles:
“Dividing Deliberative and Participatory Democracy through John Dewey”, Democratic Theory 2, no. 1 (2015): 63-84.
“The Resolution of Poverty in Hegel’s ‘Actual’ State”, Polity 46, no. 3 (2014): 331-353.
“The Democratic Individual: Dewey’s Back to Plato Movement”, The Pluralist 9, no. 1 (2014): 14-38.
“Reconstructing Dewey: Dialectics and Democratic Education”, Education and Culture 28, no. 1 (2012): 62-77.
Manuscripts Under Review:
“The Will to Power in the Dialectic: Hegel and Nietzsche’s Uneasy Alliance”, History of Political Thought (under review).
Review Essays:
“What is Democratic in an Unequal Society?”, Political Theory 45, no. 6 (2017): 853-862.
Critical Exchanges:
“Dethroning Deliberation: A Response to Caspary”, Democratic Theory 4, no. 2 (2017): 102-110.
Book Reviews:
“Review of Why Democracy Is Oppositional”, Contemporary Political Theory 17, no. 2 (2018): S70-S73.
“Review of Dewey’s Social Philosophy: Democracy as Education”, Education and Culture 31, no. 2 (2015): 113-117.
“Review of John Dewey’s Philosophy of Spirit, with the 1897 Lecture on Hegel”, Education and Culture 29, no. 1 (2013): 130-134.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:
Invited Presentations:
“The Perils of External Aims: A Deweyan Critique of Grading and Standardized Testing”, John Dewey’s “Democracy and Education” 100 Years On: Past, Present, and Future Relevance, September 2016, University of Cambridge, UK.
“Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Challenge to Democratic Theory”, University of Chicago Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Fall Symposium, October 2015, Chicago, IL.
Conference Presentations:
“Equality and Collective Progress: Hegel and Nietzsche on the Prospects for Social Reform”, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2018, Chicago, IL.
“The Will to Power in the Dialectic: Hegel and Nietzsche’s Uneasy Alliance”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2018, San Francisco, CA.
“Going Beyond Deliberation: The Democratic Need to Reduce Social Inequality”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2016, San Diego, CA.
“The Hegelian Gap Between Deweyan and Rortyan Democracy”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2015, Las Vegas, NV.
“Dividing Deliberative and Participatory Democracy through John Dewey”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2014, Seattle, WA.
“Democratizing Institutions: Dewey and Radical Democracy”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2013, Hollywood, CA.
“The Resolution of Poverty in Hegel’s ‘Actual’ State”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2012, Portland, OR.
“Reconstructing Dewey: Dialectics and Democratic Education”, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2011, San Antonio, TX.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2015-present Harper-Schmidt Fellowship, University of Chicago
2014 Watson Fellowship, UCLA Political Science Department
2013, 2009, 2008 UCLA Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Political Science Department
2013, 2012 Summer Research Fellowship, UCLA Political Science Department
2010, 2009 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA Graduate Division
2008 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
2008 Departmental Highest Honors, UCLA Political Science Department
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Manuscript Reviewer: American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Polity, Political Research Quarterly, Globalizations, Education and Culture.
Book Proposal Reviewer: Rowman & Littlefield International.
Discussant: “Neglected Genealogies”: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2017.
Chair/Discussant: “Conceptions of (Un)Freedom”: Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2017.
Chair/Discussant: “Movements and Alternative Institutions”: Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2015.
Discussant: “Property, Rules, and Rectification”, (Eric Nelson): UCLA Political Theory Workshop, May 2011.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago.
Power, Identity, and Resistance III: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Power, Identity, and Resistance II: Winter 2019, Winter 2017, Winter 2016
Power, Identity, and Resistance I: Autumn 2018, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2015
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, UCLA.
Late Modern and Contemporary Political Theory: Spring 2015
Democratic Theory: Winter 2015
Continental Political Thought: Fall 2014
Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UCLA.
Introduction to Political Theory: Winter 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
Late Modern and Contemporary Political Theory: Winter 2013
Politics and Strategy: Spring 2012, Winter 2011
Continental Political Thought: Winter 2012
Introduction to American Politics: Fall 2010, Winter 2010, Fall 2009
LANGUAGES:
German (proficient)
